XI. See amendment troversies to which the United States shall be a party; to controversies between two or more States; between a State and citizens of another State; 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. Original juris. diction of Supreme Court. Appellate. 7 Crunch. 108. 1 Wheat., 304. Trial by jury, Treason defined. 1 ball., 56. 4 Cranch, 470. Punishment of. Credit to public &c., every State. In all cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be a party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed. SEC. 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open Court. The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture, except during the life of the person attainted. ARTICLE IV. SECTION 1. Full faith and credit shall be given in each State to Acts of the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of every other State. PS Statutes, And the Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof. 1790, 11. 1804, 56. 7 Cranch, 481. 3 Wheat., 234. Privileges of citizens of each State. 18 How.. 71. 3 Gray, 276. Fugitives from 1.vered up. SEC. 2. The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States. A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other justice to be de crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime. Persons held to service, having d-livered up. No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws escaped, to be thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or 1. S. Statutes, regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due. 1793, 7. 1850, 60. 16 Pet., 539. new States. SEC. 3. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Admission Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned, as well as of the Congress. of gress over tri The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all need- Power of Cɔnful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property tory and other belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution property. shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular State. Republican form government guaranteed. SEC. 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and on application of the Legislature, or of Echte to be the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.. ARTICLE V. protected. Constitution. Congress, whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the tow amended application of the Legislatures of two-thirds of the several States shall call a Convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress: Provided, That no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate. ARTICLE VI. Proviso. debts, All debts contracted and engagements entered into, before the Certain adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United &c., duopted. States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation. of treates and laws States. United This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall Supremacy be made in pursuance thereof, and all the treaties made, or which Constitution, shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the of the supreme law of the land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any thing in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding. Constitution, by The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Oath to support members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and whom taken. judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution; No religious test. but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States. What ratifica lish Constitution ARTICLE VII. The ratification of the conventions of nine States shall be suffi tion shall estab- cient for the establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the same. ARTICLES IN ADDITION TO, AND AMENDMENT OF, The Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution. Religious estab hibited. ARTICLE I. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of relilishment pro- gion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people speech, of the peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Freedom of press, and right to petition. ARTICLE II. Right to keep and bear arms. Νο soldier to A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. ARTICLE III. No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house, he quartered in without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law. any house, urless, &c. Right of search and seizure regulated. 3 Cranch, 448. ARTICLE IV. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. ARTICLE V. Provisions con tions, trials, and 2 Sumner, 19. No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand cerning prosecu. jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the punishments. militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, Private property or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. ARTICLE VI. not to be taken for public use, w thout, &c. 7 Pet., 243. sions respecting cutions. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to Further provia speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and dis- criminal prosetrict wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law; and to be informed. of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of Counsel for his defense. ARTICLE VII. 3 Pet., 433. In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall Right of trial by exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, jury secured. and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any 5 Gray, 144. Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law. ARTICLE VIII. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, Bail, fines, and nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. ARTICLE IX. punishments. 5 Gray, 482. The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights, shall not Rule be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. of struction. con ARTICLE X. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitu- same subject. tion, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States 3 Gray, 268. respectively, or to the people. Same subject. 3 Dall., 378. Manner of choos- dent. ARTICLE XI. The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another State, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign State. ARTICLE XII. The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by and Vice Presi- 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 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 a majority, then from the persons having the highest number, not exceeding three, on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by States, the representation from each State having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the States, and a majority of all the States shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President. 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 two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United States. Sime subject. Same subject. |