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# The Constitution of The United States of America
>We The People, of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, 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.

This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every jurisdiction shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any jurisdiction to the contrary notwithstanding.



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## **Article I - The Congress**

### Section I
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 II
The House of Representatives shall be composed of fifteen representatives chosen every forty-five days. All members of the House of Representatives shall be elected at once.

In case of vacancy in the House of Representatives, the Speaker of the House shall make an appointment to fill said vacancy with the advise and consent of three-fifths of the House of Representatives.

The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other officers; and shall have the sole power of Impeachment.

### Section III

The Senate of the United States shall be composed of ten Senators split into two classes, each being composed of five members, each class being elected every sixty days by the people.

In case of vacancy in the Senate, the President of the Senate shall make an appointment to fill said vacancy with the advice and consent of three-fifths of the Senate.

The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided. The Presiding Officer shall be counted in quorum.

The Senate shall choose their other Officers, and a President pro tempore, in the Absence of the Vice President, or 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 or 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. No trial shall be composed of less than two days in session.

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, or 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 IV

The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed by the Federal Election Commission.

The Congress shall assemble at least once every seven days, and such meeting shall take place in a publicly accessible place, unless otherwise prescribed by law.

### Section V

A majority of each House shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day 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 behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member.

Each House shall keep its proceedings on the official trello board as established by the Founding Fathers of the United States, and from time to time publish 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 question 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 more than seven days, nor to any other place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.

### Section VI

The Senators and Representatives shall receive a compensation for their services, to be ascertained by 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 or debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other place.

No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which they was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time.


### Section VII

All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or 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 they approve they shall sign it, but if not they shall return it, with their objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large on their official trello board, 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, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two-thirds of that House, it shall become a law. But in all such cases the votes of both Houses shall be determined by Yeas and Nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the official trello board of each House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned by the president within seven days after it shall have been presented to them, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if they had signed it, unless the Congress by their adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law.

Every order, resolution, or vote to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the same shall take effect, shall be approved by them, or being disapproved by them, shall be repassed by two-thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the rules and limitations prescribed in the case of a bill.

### Section VIII

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 jurisdictions;

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 arts, by 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 and offences against the law of nations;

To declare war, grant letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make rules concerning captures;

To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than forty-five days;

To make rules for the government and regulation of the armed 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 jurisdiction respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District as may, by creation of the Founding Fathers of the United States, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased 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 by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

### Section IX

The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.

No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed.

No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time.

No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign state.



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## **Article II - The Executive**

### Section I

The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. They shall hold their office for a term of 85 days, and together with the Vice President chosen for the same term, be elected, as follows:

The President shall be elected by popular vote of the people, who must be current citizens who have achieved the age of thirty days and are registered to vote. After the votes shall have been counted, the person having the greatest number of votes shall become President.

The Federal Elections Commission shall set the day on which the people shall give their votes.

No person except a citizen of the United States shall be eligible to the office of President who shall have attained to age one hundred and twenty days on roblox.

In case of the removal of the President from office or of their actual death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, and the congress may by law provide for the case of removal, actual 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.

Before they enter on the execution of their office, they shall take the following oath or 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 II

The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States, and of the militia of the several jurisdictions, when called into the actual Service of the United States; they 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 they shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offences against the United States, except in cases of Impeachment.

They shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and the President shall nominate, and with the advice 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 by law: but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.

The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session.

### Section III

They shall from time to time give to the Congress information on the State of the Union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as the President shall judge necessary and expedient; the President may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both houses, or either of them, and in case of disagreement between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, the President may adjourn them to such time as the President shall think proper; the President 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 IV

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, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.



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## **Article III - The Judiciary**

### Section I

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 behavior, and shall, at stated times, receive for their services, a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.

### Section II

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, or which shall be made, under their authority;—to all cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;—to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party; and between foreign States, citizens or subjects, and advisory opinions.

In all cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a jurisdiction 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 by Jury; and such trial shall be held in the jurisdiction where the said Crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any jurisdiction, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed.

### Section III

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.



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## **Article IV - The Jurisdictions**

### Section I

Full faith and credit shall be given in each jurisdiction to the public acts, records and proceedings of every other jurisdiction. And the Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof.

### Section II

Americans shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities in the several jurisidctions.

### Section III

New jurisdictions may be admitted by Congress into this Union but no new jurisdictions shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other municipality; nor any municipality be formed by the junction of two or more jurisdictions, or parts of jurisdictions, without the consent of the overseers of the jurisdictions 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 or 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, or of any particular jurisdictions.

### Section IV

The United States shall guarantee to every jurisdictions in this Union a Republican form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the overseers, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.



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## **Article V - Amendments**

### Section I

The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both houses deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution on public forum and then seek approval from the people at an appropriate venue, and the ayes and nays in response to the question of ratification, which shall last for forty-eight hours, reaching at minimum sixty percent approval.

### Section II

No new Constitution shall be proposed.



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## **Article VI - Ratification**

### Section I

The Ratification by the delegates of constitutional convention, shall be sufficient for the establishment of this Constitution for the Government of the United States.



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## **Amendment I - Religion and Expression**

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 redress of grievances.



## **Amendment II - Bearing Arms**

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.




## **Amendment III - Quartering Soldiers**

No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

## **Amendment IV - Search and Seizure**

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.

## **Amendment V - Rights of Persons**

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the armed forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against themselves, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

## **Amendment VI - Rights of Accused and Criminal Prosecutions**

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the jurisdiction wherein the crime shall have been committed, which jurisdiction 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 them; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in their favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for their defence.


## **Amendment VII - Civil Trials**

In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

## **Amendment VIII - Further Guarantees in Criminal Cases**

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

## **Amendment IX - Unenumerated Rights**

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

## **Amendment X - Reserved Powers**

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the jurisdiction, are reserved to the jurisdiction respectively, or to the people.

## **Amendment XI - Suits Against Jurisidictions**

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 jurisdiction, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.

## **Amendment XII - Election of the President**

In elections for President of the United States, Candidates for President of the United States shall submit in writing to the Federal Election Commission notifying them of who they shall have as their Candidate for Vice President of the United States by no later than one week before the election date; electors shall submit a ballot with the name of the President of the United States candidate they prefer, which will automatically be supplemented with that candidate’s choice for their Vice President of the United States.

## **Amendment XIII - Slavery and Involuntarity Servitude**

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

## **Amendment XIV - Rights Guaranteed, Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process and Equal Protection**

Section. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the jurisdiction wherein they reside. No jurisdiction shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any jurisdiction deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Section. 2. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any jurisdiction, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, 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 two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Section. 3. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.


## **Amendment XV - The Rights of Citizens to Vote**

Section. 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Section. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

## **Amendment XVI - Income Tax**

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several jurisdictions, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

## **Amendment XVII - Women's Suffrage Rights**

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any jurisdiction on account of sex.

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

## **Amendment XVIII - Commencement of the Terms of President, Vice President, and Members of Congress**

The inaugurations of the President and Vice President shall occur every eighty-five days following their respective presidential elections, unless otherwised specified by the Office of the Federal Overseers.

## **Amendment XIX - Presidential Tenure**

Section. 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 two months of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President, when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

## **Amendment XX - Abolition of the Poll Tax Qualification in Federal Elections**

Section. 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 abridged by the United States or any jurisdiction by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.

Section. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

## **Amendment XXI - Presidential Vacancy, Disability, or Incapacity**

Section. 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.

Section. 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.

Section. 3. Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.

Section. 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives has written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

## **Amendment XXII - Reduction of Voting Age Qualification**

Section. 1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are thirty days or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.

Section. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

## **Amendment XXIII - 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.

## **Amendment XXIV - Occupation of Mutiple Offices**

Any person who is confirmed, elected, or appointed to public office, shall not withhold another position that requires the same process:

Whereas this includes; Cabinet positions; Congressional positions; The office/position of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House; Elected/appointed municipal positions; including the office of Mayor and
Deputy Mayor.

No member of the United States shall be constitutionally allowed to hold more than one
specified public office within the federal and municipal government.

Violation of this constitutional amendment on the federal scale shall be deemed as a possible impeachable offense, upon the discretion of congress.

Violation of this constitutional amendment on the municipal scale shall be deemed punishable, upon the discretion of the city council.

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*Updated: 2-13-23*
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