I have full blown autism

Half of the time I can't even remember how to sleep or talk.

 

big surprise!

 

"300+ Vouches" I can't vouch you're any good at Rust

 

ill kill u with a rock lol stfu

 

I don't think you need to remember how to sleep man. You know what i think? I think you're not actually autistic. You're a leech to the system. Want to know what a real high functioning autist looks like? Well look no further.

 

"High Functioning" Listen I don't care what your mother tells you. Taking your meds on time once and doing the dishes doesn't make you high functioning.

 

could you guys enjoy life?

 

Right

 

same

 

Good god who let you back on here Brandon.

 

I gotta be frank witchall and say that you turbo-autists have effectively ruined this site. Can't have any serious threads without you chuckle fucks writing some pointless goofy shit. Theres no thought to anything anymore, all just linear garbo. Why dont yall go J.O. to some train videos instead of shitting up this place. Sick of it

 

I'm gonna turn that ass into a ring of fire when Im done

 

Im gonna give you a big kiss @Laurie why are you mad at me?

 

Generally speaking,

(Preamble)
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic 2 The actual 3 for 4

3: No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of 5 unless they shall by Law appoint a different Day.

Section 5
1: Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a 6 They shall in all Cases, except 7

5: No Tax or 8

4: The Congress may determine the Time of 9 the Same shall devolve on the VicePresident, and the Congress may by Law provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation or Inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what Officer shall then act as President, and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the Disability be removed, or a President shall be elected.

7: The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be 10 —between Citizens of different States, —between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.

2: In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original 11

Section 3
1: New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of skip to Letter of Transmittal to Congressup to the Constitution
In Convention. Monday September 17th 1787.
Present
The States of
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Mr. Hamilton from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.

Resolved, That the preceeding Constitution be laid before the United States in Congress assembled, and that it is the Opinion of this Convention, that it should afterwards be submitted to a Convention of Delegates, chosen in each State by the People thereof, under the Recommendation of its Legislature, for their Assent and Ratification; and that each Convention assenting to, and ratifying the Same, should give Notice thereof to the United States in Congress assembled. Resolved, That it is the Opinion of this Convention, that as soon as the Conventions of nine States shall have ratified this Constitution, the United States in Congress assembled should fix a Day on which Electors should be appointed by the States which shall have ratified the same, and a Day on which the Electors should assemble to vote for the President, and the Time and Place for commencing Proceedings under this Constitution.
That after such Publication the Electors should be appointed, and the Senators and Representatives elected: That the Electors should meet on the Day fixed for the Election of the President, and should transmit their Votes certified, signed, sealed and directed, as the Constitution requires, to the Secretary of the United States in Congress assembled, that the Senators and Representatives should convene at the Time and Place assigned; that the Senators should appoint a President of the Senate, for the sole Purpose of receiving, opening and counting the Votes for President; and, that after he shall be chosen, the Congress, together with the President, should, without Delay, proceed to execute this Constitution.


By the unanimous Order of the Convention

W. Jackson Secretary.

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In Convention. Monday September 17th 1787.
SIR:

We have now the honor to submit to the consideration of the United States in Congress assembled, that Constitution which has appeared to us the most advisable.

The friends of our country have long seen and desired that the power of making war, peace, and treaties, that of levying money, and regulating commerce, and the correspondent executive and judicial authorities, should be fully and effectually vested in the General Government of the Union; but the impropriety of delegating such extensive trust to one body of men is evident: hence results the necessity of a different organization.

It is obviously impracticable in the Federal Government of these States to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all. Individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstance, as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be preserved; and, on the present occasion, this difficulty was increased by a difference among the several States as to their situation, extent, habits, and particular interests.

In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety—perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each State in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude than might have been otherwise expected; and thus, the Constitution which we now present is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession, which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable.

That it will meet the full and entire approbation of every State is not, perhaps, to be expected; but each will, doubtless, consider, that had her interest alone been consulted, the consequences might have been particularly disagreeable or injurious to others; that it is liable to as few exceptions as could reasonably have been expected, we hope and believe; that it may promote the lasting welfare of that Country so dear to us all, and secure her freedom and happiness, is our most ardent wish.

With great respect,
we have the honor to be,
SIR,
your excellency's most obedient and humble servants:
GEORGE WASHINGTON, President.
By the unanimous order of the convention.

His Excellency
the President of Congress.

Amendments to the Constitution
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(The procedure for changing the United States Constitution is Article V - Mode of Amendment)

(The Preamble to The Bill of Rights)


Congress OF THE United States
begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the 12

(Articles I through X are known as the Bill of Rights) ratified

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Article the first. .... After the first enumeration required by the first Article of the Constitution, there shall be one Representative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall amount to one hundred, after which, the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall be not less than one hundred Representatives, nor less than one Representative for every forty thousand persons, until the number of Representatives shall amount to two hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall not be less than two hundred Representatives, nor more than one Representative for every fifty thousand persons.

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Article the second. .... No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened. see Amendment XXVII

Article (Amendment 1 - Freedom of expression and religion) 13
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be ratified #11 affects 10

[Article XII] (Amendment 12 - Election of President)
The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate;—The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;—The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding 14 —The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the ratified #12 affects 8

Article XIII (Amendment 13 - Slavery and Involuntary Servitude)
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their affects 11

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. ratified #13

Article XIV (Amendment 14 - Rights Guaranteed: Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process, and Equal Protection)
1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the 15 and citizens of the United States, or in any way affects 2

3: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of ratified #14

Article XV (Amendment 15 - Rights of Citizens to Vote)
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or ratified #15

Article XVI (Amendment 16 - Income Tax)
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without ratified #16 affects 2

[Article XVII] (Amendment 17 - Popular Election of Senators)
1: The Senate of the United States shall be composed of affects 3

2: When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue affects 4

3: This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution. ratified #17

Article [XVIII] (Amendment 18 - Prohibition of Intoxicating Liquors)16
1: After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.

2: The Congress and the several States shall have ratified #18

Article [XIX] (Amendment 19 - Women's Suffrage Rights)
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or affects 15

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. ratified #19

Article [XX] (Amendment 20 - Terms of President, Vice President, Members of Congress: Presidential Vacancy)
1: The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the affects 5

2: The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the affects 5

3: If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified. affects 9 affects 14

4: The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever the right of choice shall have affects 9

5: Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October following the ratification of this article.

6: This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of ratified #20

Article [XXI] (Amendment 21 - Repeal of Eighteenth Amendment)
1: The affects 16

2: The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.

3: This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within ratified #21

Amendment XXII (Amendment 22 - Presidential Tenure)
1: No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than ratified #22

Amendment XXIII (Amendment 23 - Presidential Electors for the District of Columbia)
1: The District constituting the seat of government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct: A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a state, but in no event more than the least populous state; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the states, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a state; and they shall meet in the District and perform such ratified #23

Amendment XXIV (Amendment 24 - Abolition of the Poll Tax Qualification in Federal Elections)
1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or ratified #24

Amendment XXV affects 9 (Amendment 25 - Presidential Vacancy, Disability, and Inability)
1: In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.

2: Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.

3: Whenever the President transmits to the President ratified #25

Amendment XXVI (Amendment 26 - Reduction of Voting Age Qualification)
1: The right of citizens of the United States, who are 18 years of age or older, to vote, shall not be denied or affects 15

2: The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. ratified #26

Amendment XXVII (Amendment 27 - Congressional Pay Limitation)
No law varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives shall take effect until an election of Representatives shall have intervened. ratified #27

NOTES
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Note 1: This text of the Constitution follows the ratification

Note 2: The part of Article 1 Section 2 Clause 3 relating to the mode of Amendment XIV Section 2, and as to taxes on incomes without Amendment XVI.

Note 3: Article 1 Section 3 Clause 1 has been affected by Amendment XVII Section 1.

Note 4: Article 1 Section 3 Clause 2 has been affected by Amendment XVII Section 2.

Note 5: Article 1 Section 4 Clause 2 has been affected by Amendment XX.

Note 6: Article 1 Section 6 Clause 1 has been affected by Amendment XXVII.

Note 7: Article 1 Section 9 Clause 4 has been affected by Amendment XVI.

Note 8: Article 2 Section 1 Clause 3 has been superseded by Amendment XII.

Note 9: Article 2 Section 1 Clause 6 has been affected by Amendment XX and Amendment XXV.

Note 10: Article 3 Section 2 Clause 1 has been affected by Amendment XI.

Note 11: Article 4 Section 2 Clause 3 has been affected by Amendment XIII Section 1.

Note 12: The first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States are known as the Bill of Rights

Note 13: The Bill of Rights only had ten of the twelve articles ratified and these were then renumbered. Of the others only the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th articles of amendment had numbers assigned to them at the time of ratification.

Note 14: This sentence of Amendment XII has been superseded by Amendment XX Section 3.

Note 15: Article XIV Section 2 is modified by Amendment XIX Section 1 and Amendment XXVI Section 1.

Note 16: Amendment XVIII repealed by Amendment XXI Section 1.

Dates
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• May 25, 1787: The Constitutional Convention opens with a quorum of seven states in Philadelphia to discuss revising the Articles of Confederation. Eventually all states but Rhode Island are represented.
• Sept. 17, 1787: All 12 state delegations approve the Constitution, 39 delegates sign it of the 42 present, and the Convention formally adjourns.
• June 21, 1788: The Constitution becomes effective for the ratifying states when New Hampshire is the ninth state to ratify it.
• Mar. 4, 1789: The first Congress under the Constitution convenes in New York City.
• Apr. 30, 1789: George Washington is inaugurated as the first President of the United States.
• June 8, 1789: James Madison introduces proposed Bill of Rights in the House of Representatives.
• Sept. 24, 1789: Congress establishes a Supreme Court, 13 district courts, three ad hoc circuit courts, and the position of Attorney General.
• Sept. 25, 1789: Congress approves 12 amendments and sends them to the states for ratification.
• Feb. 2, 1790: Supreme Court convenes for the first time after an unsuccessful attempt February 1.
• Dec. 15, 1791: Virginia ratifies the Bill of Rights, and 10 of the 12 proposed amendments become part of the U.S. Constitution.

Spellings
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Some words now have different spellings:
behaviour
- behavior
chuse
- choose
chusing
- choosing
controul
- control
defence
- defense
encreased
- increased
erazure
- erasure
labour
- labor
offences
- offenses
Punctuation, hyphenation and grammar usage have also changed.
Vocabulary
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Also check the Government Printing Office's Ben's Guide for Kids
3d
- 3rd (third)
abridged
- shortened
adjourn
- suspend proceedings to another time
adjournment
- suspending proceedings to another time
appellate
- appeal (review decision)
appropriation
- authorize spending
apportioned
- distributed
apportionment
- distributing
attainted
- disgrace
Bill of Attainder
- legislative act pronouncing guilt without trial
capitation
- poll tax
cession
- grant
comity
- courteous recognition of laws and institutions of another (state)
commenced
- started
concur
- agree
concurrant
- at the same time
concurrence
- agreement
concurring
- in agreement
construed
- interpreted
Corruption of Blood
- punishment of person and heirs
counsel
- lawyer
declaratory
- explaining law or right
democracy
- this word is not in these documents directly, but “We the people” and “Republican Form of Government” are - most people say our form of government is a “Federal Democratic Republic”
devolved
- passed on or delegated to another
disparage
- belittle
duties
- job
duties
- charge (like a tax)
duty
- job
duty
- charge (like a tax)
Duty of Tonnage
- charge by weight
emolument
- power and/or pay
emoluments
- power and/or pay
engrossed
- final draft
enumeration
- count or list
ex post facto
- (latin) after the fact
excises
- internal taxes
Habeas Corpus
- a writ in court for release of unlawful restraint - (latin) produce body [of evidence]
imminent
- about to occur - do not confuse with eminent or immanent
impeachment
- formal accusation of wrongdoing
impeachments
- formal accusations of wrongdoing
imposts
- taxes or duties, that are imposed
indictment
- formal charges
jurisdiction
- right to control
Letters of Marque
- (grant right of piracy) - document issued by a nation allowing a private citizen to seize citizens or goods of another nation
magazines
- ammunition storerooms
ordain
- order
prescribed
- establish a rule
privileged
- rights given a group
pro tempore
- temporary - (latin) for a time
posterity
- descendants
quartered
- housed
quartering
- housing
quorum
- minimum valid number of people
redress
- correct a wrong
repassed
- passed again
reprisal
- retaliation
republican
- representative and officers elected by citizens and responsible to them
suffrage
- vote
- voting
tranquility
- peace
treason
- betrayal of country
vessels
- ships
vested
- given the right
viz.
- abbreviation for (latin) videlicet - namely (and when read aloud spoken as namely) from: The Columbia Guide to Standard American English
welfare
- well-being
writ
- order
writs
- orders
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    • THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION
      • (Preamble)
      • Article I - The Legislative
        • Section 1 - Congress
        • Section 2 - The House of Representatives
          • Clause 1 - Congressional Districting
          • Clause 2 - Qualification of Members of Congress
          • Clause 3 - Clause 4 - Vacancies
          • Clause 5 - Officers and Power of Section 3 - The Senate
            • Clause 1 - Composition and Selection
            • Clause 2 - Classes of Senators
            • Clause 3 - Qualifications
            • Clause 4 - The Vice President
            • Clause 5 - Officers
            • Clause 6 - Trial of Clause 7 - Judgments on Section 4 - Elections
              • Clause 1 - Congressional Power to Regulate
              • Clause 2 - Time of Assembling
            • Section 5 - Powers and Clause 1 - Power to Judge Elections
            • Clause 2 - Rules of Proceedings
            • Clause 3 - Clause 4 - Adjournments
          • Section 6 - Rights and Disabilities of Members
            • Clause 1 - Compensation and Immunities
            • Clause 2 - Disabilities
          • Section 7 - Legislative Process
            • Clause 1 - Revenue Bills
            • Clause 2 - Approval by the President
            • Clause 3 - Presentation of Resolutions
          • Section 8 - Powers of Congress
            • Clause 1 - Power to Tax and Spend
            • Clause 2 - Borrowing Power
            • Clause 3- Commerce Power
            • Clause 4 - Naturalization and Bankruptcies
            • Clause 5 - Money
            • Clause 6 - Money
            • Clause 7 - Post Office
            • Clause 8 - Copyrights and Patent
            • Clause 9- Creating of Courts
            • Clause 10 - Maritime Crimes
            • Clause 11 - War; Military Establishment
            • Clause 12 - War; Military Establishment
            • Clause 13 - War; Military Establishment
            • Clause 14 - War; Military Establishment
            • Clause 15 - The Militia
            • Clause 16 - The Militia
            • Clause 17 - District of Columbia; Federal Property
            • Clause 18 - Necessary Clause
          • Section 9 - Powers Denied Congress
            • Clause 1 - Importation of Slaves
            • Clause 2 - Clause 3 - Clause 4 - Taxes
            • Clause 5 - Clause 6- Preference to Ports
            • Clause 7- Clause 8 - Titles of Nobility; Presents
          • Section 10 - Powers Denied to the States
            • Clause 1 - Not to Make Treaties, Coin Money, Pass Ex Post Facto Laws, Impair Contracts
            • Clause 2 - Not to Levy Clause 3 - Not to Lay Tonnage Article II - Executive
              • Section 1 - The President
                • Clause 1 - Powers and Term of the President
                • Clause 2 - Election
                • Clause 3 - Election
                • Clause 4 - Election
                • Clause 5 - Qualifications
                • Clause 6 - Presidential Succession
                • Clause 7 - Compensation and Clause 8 - Oath of Office
              • Section 2 - Powers and Clause 1 - Commander-in-Chiefship; Presidential Advisers;
              • Clause 2 - Treaties and Appointment of Officers
              • Clause 3 - Vacancies during Recess of Senate
            • Section 3 - Legislative, Diplomatic, and Law Enforcement
            • Section 4 - Article III - Judicial
              • Section 1 - Judicial Power, Courts, Judges
              • Section 2 - Judicial Power and Clause 1 - Cases and Controversies; Grants of Clause 2 - Original and Appellate Clause 3 - Trial by Jury
            • Section 3 - Clause 1 - Definition and Limitations
            • Clause 2 - Punishment
        • Article IV - States' Relations
          • Section 1 - Full Faith and Credit
          • Section 2 - Interstate Clause 1 - State Citizenship: Privileges and Immunities
          • Clause 2 - Interstate Rendition
          • Clause 3 - Fugitives from Labor
        • Section 3 - Admission of New States to Union; Property of United State
          • Clause 1 - Admission of New States to Union
          • Clause 2 - Property of the United States
        • Section 4 - Obligations of United States to States
      • Article V - Mode of Amendment
      • Article VI - Prior Debts, National Supremacy, Oaths of Office
        • Clause 1 - Validity of Prior Debts and Engagements
        • Clause 2 - Supremacy of the Constitution, Laws and Treaties
        • Clause 3 - Oath of Office
      • Article VII - Ratification
      • Letter of Transmittal
      • Letter of Transmittal to the President of Congress
    • Amendments to the Constitution
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        [*]Article [XIX] - Women's Section 1 - Women's Section 2 - Enforcement
        
      
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      • Section 4 - Power of Congress in Presidential succession
      • Section 5 - Time of taking effect
      • Section 6 - Ratification
      [*]Article [XXI] - Repeal of Section 1 - Repeal of Section 2 - Transportation of intoxicating liquors
      [*]Section 3 - Ratification
      
    
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    [*]Amendment XXIII - Presidential Electors for the District of Columbia
    
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    [*]Amendment XXIV - Abolition of the Poll Tax Qualification in Federal Elections
    [*]Amendment XXV - Presidential Vacancy, Disability, and Inability
    [*]Amendment XXVI - Reduction of Voting Age Qualification
    
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    [*]Amendment XXVII - Congressional Pay Limitation
    
  
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  • Note 5: Article 1 Section 4 Clause 2 modified by Amendment XX.
  • Note 6: Article 1 Section 6 Clause 1 modified by Amendment XXVII.
  • Note 7: Article 1 Section 9 Clause 4 modified by Amendment XVI.
  • Note 8: Article 2 Section 1 Clause 3 superseded by amendment XII.
  • Note 9: Article 2 Section 1 Clause 6 modified by amendment XX and amendment XXV.
  • Note 10: Article 3 Section 2 Clause 1 modified by amendment XI.
  • Note 11: Article 4 Section 2 Clause 3 modified by amendment XIII.
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      [*]Article [VI] - Rights of Accused in Criminal Prosecutions
      [*]Article [VII] - Civil Trials
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      [*]Article [IX] - Unenumerated Rights
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    [*]Jun 15, 1804 [Article XII] - Election of President
    [*]Dec 6, 1865 Article XIII - Slavery and Involuntary Servitude
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    [*]Feb 3, 1870 Article XV - Rights of Citizens to Vote
    [*]Feb 3, 1913 Article XVI - Income Tax
    [*]Apr 8, 1913 [Article XVII] - Popular Election of Senators
    [*]Jan 16, 1919 Article [XVIII] - Prohibition of Intoxicating Liquors
    [*]Aug 18, 1920 Article [XIX] - Women's Article [XX] - Terms of President, Vice President, Members of Congress: Presidential Vacancy
    [*]Mar 21, 1947 Article [XXI] - Repeal of Amendment XXII - Presidential Tenure
    [*]Mar 29, 1961 Amendment XXIII - Presidential Electors for the District of Columbia
    [*]Jan 24, 1964 Amendment XXIV - Abolition of the Poll Tax Qualification in Federal Elections
    [*]Feb 10, 1967 Amendment XXV - Presidential Vacancy, Disability, and Inability
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A

• Admiralty and; maritime cases - Article III Section 2
• Advice and consent - Article II Section 2 Clause 2
• Age, as qualification for public office
  • President - Article II Section 1 Clause 5
  • Representatives - Article I Section 2 Clause 2
  • Senators - Article I Section 3 Clause 3
• Age, voting - Amendement XXVI
• Ambassadors
  • Case controversies - Article III Section 2 Clause 1
  • President's power - Article II Section 2 Clause 2; Article II Section 3
• Amendment procedure - Article V
• Appellate jurisdiction - Article III Section 2 Clause 2
• Appointment power - Article II Section 2 Clause 2
• Appointments, temporary - Amendement XVII Section 2
• Apportionment of representatives - Article I Section 2 Clause 3; Amendment XIV Section 2
• Appropriations(s) - Article I Section 8
• Arms, right to bear - Amendement II
• Army - Article II Section 2 Clause 1
• Assembly, right of - Amendement l
• Authors - Article I Section 8 Clause 8

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B

• Bail, excessive - Amendement 8
• Bankruptcy, Congress, power - Article I Section 8 Clause 4
• Bill of Rights (Amendments 1-10) - Amendments I-X
• Bills - Article I Section 7
• Bills of attainder - Article I Section 9 Clause 3; Article I Section 10 Clause 1
• Borrowing, Congress, power - Article I Section 8 Clause 2

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C

• Cabinet officers, reports - Article II Section 2 Clause 1
• Census - Article I Section 2 Clause 3
• Chief Justice, role in impeachment trials - Article I Section 3 Clause 6
• Commander in Chief - Article II Section 2 Clause 1
• Commerce, Congress, power - Article I Section 8 Clause 3
• Commission of officers - Article II Section 3 Clause 5
• Compact - Article I Section 10 Clause 3
• Congress
  • annual meetings - Article I Section 4 Clause 2;
  • declaring war - Article I Section 8 Clauses 11-14
  • legislative proceedings - Article I Section 5 Clause 2
  • members, compensation and privileges - Article I Section 6 Clause 1;
  • organization - Article I Section 1
  • powers - Article I Section 8; Amendement XII
  • special sessions - Article II Section 3
• Congressional Record (Journal) - Article I Section 5 Clause 3
• Constitution, purpose - Preamble
• Contracts, interference by states - Article I Section 10 Clause 3
• Controversies, court cases - Article III Section 2 Clause 1
• Conventions - Article V;VII; Amendement 21 Section 3
• Copyrights & patents, Congress' power - Article I Section 8 Clause 8
• Counsel, right to - Amendement 6
• Counterfeiting, Congress' power to punish - Article I Section 8 Clause 6
• Courts - (see Judiciary)
• Criminal proceedings, rights of accused - Amendement 5; Amendement 6
• Currency, Congress' power - Article I Section 8 Clause 5

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D

• Defense, Congress' power - Article I Section 8
• District of Columbia - Article I Section 8 Clause 17; Amendement XXIII Section 1
• Double jeopardy - Amendement V
• Due process of law - Amendement V; Amendement XIV Section 1

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E

• Electoral College - Article II Section 1 Clause 4; Amendement XII; Amendement XXIII Section 1
• Equal protection of laws - Amendement 14 Section 1
• Equity - Article III Section 2 Clause 1; Amendement 11
• Ex post facto laws - Article I Section 9 Clause 3; Article I Section 10 Clause 1
• Extradition of fugitives by states - Article IV Section 2 Clause 2

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F

• Fines, excessive - Amendement VIII
• Foreign affairs, President's power - Article II Section 2 Clause 2
• Foreign commerce, Congress' power - Article I Section 8 Clause 1
• Full faith and credit" clause - Article IV Section 1

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G

• General welfare, Congress' power - Article I Section 8 Clause 1
• Grand jury indictments - Amendement V
• Grievances, redress of - Amendement I

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H

• Habeas corpus - Article I Section 9 Clause 2
• House of Representatives
  • election to & eligibility for - Article I Section 2 Clause 2
  • members' terms of office - Article I Section 2 Clause 1; Article I Section 6 Clause 2
  • Speaker of - Article I Section 2 Clause 5; Amendement 24; Amendement 25
  • special powers
    • impeachment - Article I Section 2 Clause 5
    • Presidential elections - Article II Section 1 Clause 3; Amendement 12
    • revenue bills - Article I Section 7 Clause 1
    • states' representation in - Article I Section 2 Clause 1; Article I Section 2 Clause 3
  • vacancies - Article I Section 2 Clause 4

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I

• Immunities (see Privileges and immunities)
• Impeachment
  • officials subject to - Article II Section 4
  • penalties - Article I Section 3 Clause 7
  • power of, lodged in House - Article I Section 2 Clause 5
  • reasons - Article II Section 4
  • trials, Senate - Article I Section 3 Clause 6
• Indians, commerce with, Congress' power - Article I Section 8 Clause 3
• Inhabitant (see Resident) - Article I Section 2 Clause 2; Article I Section 3 Clause 3
• International law, Congress' power - Article I Section 8 Clause 3
• Inventors - Article I Section 8 Clause 8

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J

• Judiciary
  • inferior courts - Article I Section 8 Clause 9; Article III Section 1
  • judicial review - Article III Section 2 Clause 2
  • jurisdiction - Article III Section 2 Section 2
  • nomination & confirmation of judges - Article II Section 2 Clause 2
  • Supreme Court - Article III Section 1
  • terms of office & compensation - Article III Section 1
• Jury trials - Article III Section 2 Clause 3; Amendment VI; Amendment VII

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L

• “Lame duck” amendment - Amendment XX
• Liquor - Amendment XVIII; Amendment XXI

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M

• Marque and reprisal, letters of - Article I Section 8 Clause 11
• Men (see Persons)
• Militia (Military) - Amendment II; Amendment V
  • congressional powers - Article I Section 8 Clause 15
  • presidential powers - Article II Section 2 Clause 1
• Money - Article I Section 8 Clause 5-6

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N

• National debt - Article VI Clause 1
• Native Americans (see Indians)
• Naturalization - Article I Section 8 Clause 4
• Navy - Article I Section 8 Clause 13-14; Article II Section 2 Clause 1
• “Necessary and proper” clause - Article I Section 8 Clause 18
• Nominate - Article II Section 2 Clause 2; Amendment XXV

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O

• Oath of office, federal and state - Article II Section 1 Clause 8; Article VI
• Original jurisdiction - Article III Section 2 Clause 2

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P

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• Pardons and reprieves, President's power - Article II Section 2 Clause 1
• People, powers reserved to - Amendment X
• Persons - Amendment XIV
• Petition the government, right to - Amendment I
• “Pocket veto” - Article I Section 7 Clause 2
• Poll tax, prohibition - Amendment XXIV
• Post offices & roads, Congress' power - Article I Section 8 Clause 7
• Presidency, succession to - Article II Section 1; Amendement 20; Amendement 25
• President
  • disability - A25,3
  • election - Article II Section 1; Amendement 12; Amendement 22; Amendement 23
  • eligibility for office - Article II Section 1
  • legislation, role in - Article I Section 7
  • oath of office - Article II Section 1
  • powers & duties - Article IV Section 2
  • term of office & compensation - Article II Section 1
• Press, freedom of - A1
• Privileges and immunities (of citizens) - Article IV Section 2; Amendement 14 Section 1
• Prohibition - Amendement 18; Amendement 21
• Property, taking for public use - Amendement 5
• Punishments, cruel and unusual - Amendement 8

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R

• Ratification of Constitution - Article V
• Religion, freedom of - Amendment I
• Religious oaths - Article VI
• Resident (see Inhabitant) - Article II Section 1 Clause 5

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S

• Search and seizure - Amendement 4
• Seas, Congress' power - Article I Section 8
• Secrecy - Article I Section 5
• Self-incrimination - Amendement 5
• Senate
  • election to & eligibility for - Article I Section 3
  • equal representation of states - V
  • officers - Article I Section 3
  • President of - Article I Section 3;Amendement 12
  • President of, pro tempore - Article I Section 3;Amendement 25
  • special powers
    • impeachment trials - Article I Section 3
    • Presidential appointments - Article II Section 2
    • treaties - Article II Section 2
  • terms of office - Article I Section 3; Article I Section 6
  • vacancies - Amendement 17
• Slavery, prohibition - Amendement 13; A14,4
• Soldiers, quartering of - Amendement 3
• Speech, freedom of - A1
• Spending, Congress' power - Article I Section 8
• State of Union message - Article II Section 3
• States
• and federal elections - Article I Section 4
• formation & admission to Union - Article IV Section 3
• powers requiring consent of Congress - Article I Section 10
• powers reserved to - Amendement 10
• protection against invasion, violence - Article IV Section 4
• republican form of government guaranteed - Article IV Section 4
• suits against - Article III Section 2; Amendement 11
• Sundays - Article I Section 7
• Supreme law of the land (Constitution) - VI

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T

• Taxing power
  • in general - Article I Section 7 Clause 1; Article I Section 8 Clause 1
  • direct taxes prohibited - Article I Section 9 Clause 4
  • income taxes permitted - Amendment XVI
• Territories - Article IV Section 3 Clause 2
• Titles of nobility - Article I Section 9 Clause 8
• Treason - Article III Section 3
• Treaty(ies) - Article I Section 10 Clause 1; Article II Section 2 Clause 2; Article III Section 2 Clause 1; Article VI Clause 2
• Trial - Article I Section 3 Clause 6-7; Article III Section 2 Clause 3; Amendment VI; Amendment VII

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V

• Veto, President's power - Article I Section 7 Clause 2
• Vice-President
  • conditions for assuming Presidency - Article II Section 1 Clause 6; Amendement XX Section 3; Amendment XXV
  • declaring President disabled, role in - Amendement XX Section 4; Amendment XXV
  • succession to - Amendement XX Section 4; Amendment XXV
  • Senate, role in - Article I Section 3 Clause 4; Amendment XII
  • term of office - Article II Section 1 Clause 1
• Voting rights - Amendment XIV; Amendment XXIV
  • blacks, former slaves - Amendment XV
  • eighteen-years-old - Amendement XXVI Section 1
  • women - Amendement XIX Section 1

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W

• War powers (see Congress, declaring war, powers; President, powers & duties; States, protection against invasion)
• Warrants - Amendement IV
• Weights and measures, standards of - Article I Section 8 Clause 5
• Women - (see Persons)

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The Constitution was adopted by a convention of the States on September 17, 1787, and was subsequently ratified by the several States, on the following dates: Delaware, December 7, 1787; Pennsylvania, December 12, 1787; New Jersey, December 18, 1787; Georgia, January 2, 1788; Connecticut, January 9, 1788; Massachusetts, February 6, 1788; Maryland, April 28, 1788; South Carolina, May 23, 1788; New Hampshire, June 21, 1788.

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Article [XXI]
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Amendment XXII
Passed by Congress March 21, 1947. Ratified February 27, 1951. amendment 22

Amendment XXIII
Passed by Congress June 16, 1960. Ratified March 29, 1961. amendment 23

Amendment XXIV
Passed by Congress August 27, 1962. Ratified January 23, 1964. amendment 24

Amendment XXV
Passed by Congress July 6, 1965. Ratified February 10, 1967. amendment 25

Amendment XXVI
Passed by Congress March 23, 1971. Ratified July 1, 1971. amendment 26

Amendment XXVII
Originally proposed Sept. 25, 1789. Ratified May 7, 1992.

The date of September 25, 1789, is correct. The amendment was initially ratified by 6 states (MD, NC, SC, DE, VT, VA), and the other 8 states excluded, omitted, rejected, or excepted it. The amendment was ratified by various states over time, and in 1992 was fully ratified as an amendment to the Constitution.

For more information see: United States. The Constitution of the United States of America : with a summary of the actions by the states in ratification thereof ; to which is appended, for its historical interest, the Constitution of the Confederate States of America / prepared and distributed by the Virginia on Constitutional Government. Richmond : Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government, 1961. 94 p. amendment 27

 

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