We the People of the United States, in Order to form a lebih perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Article. I.
Section. 1.
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Section. 2.
The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every saat tahun sejak the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined sejak adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall sejak Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.
When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies.
The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
Section. 3.
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen sejak the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote.
Immediately after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three Classes. The Seats of the Senators of the first Class shall be vacated at the tamat tempoh of the saat Year, of the saat Class at the tamat tempoh of the fourth Year, and of the third Class at the tamat tempoh of the sixth Year, so that one third may be chosen every saat Year; and if Vacancies happen sejak Resignation, atau otherwise, during the Recess of the Legislature of any State, the Executive thereof may make temporary Appointments until the seterusnya Meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such Vacancies.
No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.
The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.
The Senate shall chuse their other Officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the Absence of the Vice President, atau when he shall exercise the Office of President of the United States.
The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath atau Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.
Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust atau Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.
Section. 4.
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State sejak the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time sejak Law make atau alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and such Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall sejak Law appoint a different Day.
Section. 5.
Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller Number may adjourn from hari to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide.
Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member.
Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time siarkan the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any soalan shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.
Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for lebih than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.
Section. 6.
The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained sejak Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech atau Debat in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.
No Senator atau Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, atau the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.
Section. 7.
All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose atau concur with Amendments as on other Bills.
Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, sejak which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved sejak two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the undian of both Houses shall be determined sejak yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned sejak the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress sejak their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.
Every Order, Resolution, atau Vote to which the Concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a soalan of Adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the Same shall take Effect, shall be approved sejak him, atau being disapproved sejak him, shall be repassed sejak two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill.
Section. 8.
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, sejak securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed sejak Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, sejak Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the kerusi, tempat duduk of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased sejak the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;—And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested sejak this Constitution in the Government of the United States, atau in any Department atau Officer thereof.
Section. 9.
The Migration atau Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited sejak the Congress prior to the tahun one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax atau duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.
The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion atau Invasion the public Safety may require it.
No Bill of Attainder atau ex post facto Law shall be passed.
No Capitation, atau other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census atau enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
No Tax atau Duty shall be laid on artikel-artikel exported from any State.
No Preference shall be telah diberi sejak any Regulation of Commerce atau Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another: nor shall Vessels bound to, atau from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, atau pay Duties in another.
No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made sejak Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.
No tajuk of Nobility shall be granted sejak the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit atau Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, atau Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, atau foreign State.
Section. 10.
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, atau Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but emas and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, atau Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, atau grant any tajuk of Nobility.
No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts atau Duties on Imports atau Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid sejak any State on Imports atau Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.
No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, atau Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement atau Compact with another State, atau with a foreign Power, atau engage in War, unless actually invaded, atau in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
Article. II.
Section. 1.
The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator atau Representative, atau Person holding an Office of Trust atau Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote sejak Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a senarai of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of undian for each; which senarai they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the kerusi, tempat duduk 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 undian shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of undian shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed; and if there be lebih than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse sejak Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the senarai the berkata House shall in like Manner chuse the President. But in chusing the President, the undian shall be taken sejak States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; A quorum for this Purpose shall consist of a Member atau Members from two thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of undian of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two atau lebih who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them sejak Ballot the Vice President.
The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the hari on which they shall give their Votes; which hari shall be the same throughout the United States.
No Person except a natural born Citizen, atau a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, atau of his Death, Resignation, atau Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the berkata Office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may sejak Law provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation atau 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, atau a President shall be elected.
The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, atau any of them.
Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath atau Affirmation:—"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Section. 2.
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
He shall have Power, sejak and with the Nasihat and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and sejak and with the Nasihat and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established sejak Law: but the Congress may sejak Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, atau in the Heads of Departments.
The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, sejak granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their seterusnya Session.
Section. 3.
He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, atau either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.
Section. 4.
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, atau other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
artikel III.
Section. 1.
The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.
Section. 2.
The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, atau which shall be made, under their Authority;—to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;—to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;—to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;—to Controversies between two atau lebih 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, atau the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens atau Subjects.
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 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 sejak Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the berkata Crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place atau Places as the Congress may sejak Law have directed.
Section. 3.
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, atau 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, atau 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, atau Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
Article. IV.
Section. 1.
Full Faith and Credit shall be telah diberi in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may sejak general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.
Section. 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, atau other 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.
No Person held to Service atau Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law atau Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service atau Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service atau Labour may be due.
Section. 3.
New States may be admitted sejak the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed atau erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed sejak the Junction of two atau lebih States, atau Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory atau other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, atau of any particular State.
Section. 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, atau of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
Article. V.
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the 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 sejak the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, atau sejak Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one atau the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed sejak the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the tahun 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.
All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, atau which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution atau Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound sejak Oath atau Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office atau public Trust under the United States.
Article. VII.
The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same.
The Word, "the," being interlined between the seventh and eighth Lines of the first Page, The Word "Thirty" being partly written on an Erazure in the fifteenth Line of the first Page, The Words "is tried" being interlined between the thirty saat and thirty third Lines of the first Page and the Word "the" being interlined between the forty third and forty fourth Lines of the saat Page.
Attest William Jackson Secretary
done in Convention sejak the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth hari of September in the tahun of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independance of the United States of America the Twelfth In witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names,
G°. Washington
Presidt and deputy from Virginia
Article. I.
Section. 1.
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Section. 2.
The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every saat tahun sejak the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined sejak adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall sejak Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.
When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies.
The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
Section. 3.
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen sejak the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote.
Immediately after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three Classes. The Seats of the Senators of the first Class shall be vacated at the tamat tempoh of the saat Year, of the saat Class at the tamat tempoh of the fourth Year, and of the third Class at the tamat tempoh of the sixth Year, so that one third may be chosen every saat Year; and if Vacancies happen sejak Resignation, atau otherwise, during the Recess of the Legislature of any State, the Executive thereof may make temporary Appointments until the seterusnya Meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such Vacancies.
No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.
The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.
The Senate shall chuse their other Officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the Absence of the Vice President, atau when he shall exercise the Office of President of the United States.
The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath atau Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.
Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust atau Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.
Section. 4.
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State sejak the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time sejak Law make atau alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and such Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall sejak Law appoint a different Day.
Section. 5.
Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller Number may adjourn from hari to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide.
Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member.
Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time siarkan the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any soalan shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.
Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for lebih than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.
Section. 6.
The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained sejak Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech atau Debat in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.
No Senator atau Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, atau the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.
Section. 7.
All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose atau concur with Amendments as on other Bills.
Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, sejak which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved sejak two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the undian of both Houses shall be determined sejak yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned sejak the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress sejak their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.
Every Order, Resolution, atau Vote to which the Concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a soalan of Adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the Same shall take Effect, shall be approved sejak him, atau being disapproved sejak him, shall be repassed sejak two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill.
Section. 8.
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, sejak securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed sejak Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, sejak Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the kerusi, tempat duduk of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased sejak the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;—And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested sejak this Constitution in the Government of the United States, atau in any Department atau Officer thereof.
Section. 9.
The Migration atau Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited sejak the Congress prior to the tahun one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax atau duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.
The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion atau Invasion the public Safety may require it.
No Bill of Attainder atau ex post facto Law shall be passed.
No Capitation, atau other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census atau enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
No Tax atau Duty shall be laid on artikel-artikel exported from any State.
No Preference shall be telah diberi sejak any Regulation of Commerce atau Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another: nor shall Vessels bound to, atau from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, atau pay Duties in another.
No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made sejak Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.
No tajuk of Nobility shall be granted sejak the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit atau Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, atau Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, atau foreign State.
Section. 10.
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, atau Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but emas and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, atau Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, atau grant any tajuk of Nobility.
No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts atau Duties on Imports atau Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid sejak any State on Imports atau Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.
No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, atau Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement atau Compact with another State, atau with a foreign Power, atau engage in War, unless actually invaded, atau in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
Article. II.
Section. 1.
The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator atau Representative, atau Person holding an Office of Trust atau Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote sejak Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a senarai of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of undian for each; which senarai they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the kerusi, tempat duduk 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 undian shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of undian shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed; and if there be lebih than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse sejak Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the senarai the berkata House shall in like Manner chuse the President. But in chusing the President, the undian shall be taken sejak States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; A quorum for this Purpose shall consist of a Member atau Members from two thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of undian of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two atau lebih who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them sejak Ballot the Vice President.
The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the hari on which they shall give their Votes; which hari shall be the same throughout the United States.
No Person except a natural born Citizen, atau a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, atau of his Death, Resignation, atau Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the berkata Office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may sejak Law provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation atau 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, atau a President shall be elected.
The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, atau any of them.
Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath atau Affirmation:—"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Section. 2.
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
He shall have Power, sejak and with the Nasihat and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and sejak and with the Nasihat and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established sejak Law: but the Congress may sejak Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, atau in the Heads of Departments.
The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, sejak granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their seterusnya Session.
Section. 3.
He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, atau either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.
Section. 4.
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, atau other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
artikel III.
Section. 1.
The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.
Section. 2.
The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, atau which shall be made, under their Authority;—to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;—to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;—to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;—to Controversies between two atau lebih 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, atau the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens atau Subjects.
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 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 sejak Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the berkata Crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place atau Places as the Congress may sejak Law have directed.
Section. 3.
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, atau 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, atau 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, atau Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
Article. IV.
Section. 1.
Full Faith and Credit shall be telah diberi in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may sejak general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.
Section. 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, atau other 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.
No Person held to Service atau Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law atau Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service atau Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service atau Labour may be due.
Section. 3.
New States may be admitted sejak the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed atau erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed sejak the Junction of two atau lebih States, atau Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory atau other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, atau of any particular State.
Section. 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, atau of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
Article. V.
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the 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 sejak the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, atau sejak Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one atau the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed sejak the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the tahun 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.
All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, atau which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution atau Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound sejak Oath atau Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office atau public Trust under the United States.
Article. VII.
The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same.
The Word, "the," being interlined between the seventh and eighth Lines of the first Page, The Word "Thirty" being partly written on an Erazure in the fifteenth Line of the first Page, The Words "is tried" being interlined between the thirty saat and thirty third Lines of the first Page and the Word "the" being interlined between the forty third and forty fourth Lines of the saat Page.
Attest William Jackson Secretary
done in Convention sejak the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth hari of September in the tahun of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independance of the United States of America the Twelfth In witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names,
G°. Washington
Presidt and deputy from Virginia
