Constitution
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- Commerce Clause
- Article 1
- Confrontation Clause
- Amendment 6
- Commander-in-Chief Clause
- Article 2
- Due Process Clause
- Amendment 5
- Full Faith and Credit Clause
- Article 4
- General Welfare Clause
- Article 1
- Necessary and Proper Clause
- Article 1
- Search and Seizure Clause
- Amendment 4
- Takings Clause
- Amendment 5
- Grand Juries Clause
- Amendment 5
- Supremacy Clause
- Article 6
- Ratification of the Constitution (requires 9 states)
- Article 7
- Validity of debts accrued under the Confederation
- Article 6
- Amending the Constitution
- Article 5
- All states have republican form of government
- Article 4
- Admission of new states, regulation of territories
- Article 4
- Full Faith and Credit Clause
- Article 4
- Treason (defenition, prosecution, and punishment)
- Article 3
- Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court
- Article 3
- Supreme and inferior courts; judges' conditions of office
- Article 3
- Reasons for impeachment (US civil officers)
- Article 2
- State of Union
- Article 2
- Presidential power to convene or adjourn Congress
- Article 2
- Presidential powers/duties
- Article 2
- Presidential terms of office
- Article 2
- Electing the president
- Article 2
- Presidential oath or affirmation
- Article 2
- Succession of the presidency
- Article 2
- Limitations on states
- Article 1
- Powers/duties of Congress
- Article 1
- Passage of a bill
- Article 1
- Compensation for members of Congress
- Article 1
- No dual office-holding for members of Congress
- Article 1
- House and Senate can manage (and punish) its members and keep a journal
- Article 1
- Limits on adjournment during Sessions of Congress
- Article 1
- Annual assembly of Congress
- Article 1
- Election of Senators and Representatives
- Article 1
- Terms of office for members of Congress
- Article 1
- Impeachment (power of Senate to try; limits on punishment)
- Article 1
- House has the "sole power of impeachment"
- Article 1
- Apportionment of Senators and direct taxes (3/5 clause)
- Article 1
- US legislature is bicameral (a House and Senate)
- Article 1
- Establishment (of religion) Clause
- Amendment 1
- Free Exercise (of religion) Clause
- Amendment 1
- Freedom of speech and the press
- Amendment 1
- Freedom to assemble
- Amendment 1
- Freedom to petition the government
- Amendment 1
- Right to bear arms
- Amendment 2
- Quartering of soldiers
- Amendment 3
- "Unreasonable searches and seizures"
- Amendment 4
- Warrants & "probable cause"
- Amendment 4
- Someone cannot be tried twice for the same crime
- Amendment 5
- "No person...shall be compelled...to be a witness against himself"
- Amendment 5
- Right to a "speedy and public trial" (criminal cases)
- Amendment 6
- Right to trial by jury in civil suits
- Amendment 7
- No excessive bail or fines
- Amendment 8
- No "cruel and unusual punishment"
- Amendment 8
- Protection of rights not listed in the Constitution
- Amendment 9
- Powers not specified in the Constitution go to the states
- Amendment 10
- Open borders until 1808
- Article 1
- No bill of attainder or ex post facto law
- Article 1
- Direct taxes are proportional to the census
- Article 1
- No taxes on state exports
- Article 1
- No favoritism of certain states in commerce regulation
- Article 1
- Accounting of the treasury
- Article 1
- No titles of nobility
- Article 1
- Members of Congress cannot accept "any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State"
- Article 1
- Take Care Clause
- Article 2
- Elastic Clause
- Article 1
- Privileges and Immunities Clause
- Article 4