---
# System prepended metadata

title: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES

---

# THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
> We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquality, 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.

This Constitution shall be the supreme law of the nation and land, and no law, regulation, ordinance, person or persons, or otherwise shall, conflict with its contents.

## ARTICLE. I. - CONGRESSIONAL DUTIES

### SEC. 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. 

### SEC. II.
The House of Representatives shall be composed of thirteen voting members chosen every two months by the people of the several states. 

No person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of fourteen years, and have been two months a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, hold a position or title within the United States Government. 

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 choose their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.

### SEC. III.
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of six Senators with no more then two Senators from each State, [chosen by the people thereof,] for four months; 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 expiration of the second month, of the second class at the expiration of the fourth month, and of the third class at the expiration of the sixth month, so that one third may be chosen every second year; [and if vacancies happen by resignation, or otherwise, during the recess of the legislature of any state, the executive thereof may make temporary appointments until the next 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 fifteen years, and have been three months a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, hold a position or title within the United States Government.

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

The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies in the Senate that may happen, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the end of the term for the respective vacant seats that expire.

The Senate shall choose their other officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the absense 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.

Judgement in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy and office of honor, trust or profit under the United States: but the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgement and punishment, according to law.

### SEC. IV.
The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed by group management; the Congress may not at any time alter or make regulations to change such. 

The Congress shall assemble at least once in every week, and such meeting shall be chosen by the presiding officer or two thirds of the sitting members. 

### SEC. V.
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 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 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 publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgement 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 one week, nor to any other place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting. 

### SEC. VI.
No Senator or 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, or 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.

### SEC. 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 he approves, he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his objections to that House in which it shall be 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 agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other House, by which it shall likwise 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 journal of each House respectively, If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days 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 by their adjournament 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 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 him, or being disapproved by him, 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. 

### SEC. VIII.
The Congress shall have power to 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 regulate Commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with Indian Tribes; 

To establish an uniform Rule of Naturialization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States,

To constitute tribunals interior to the Supreme Court;

To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, and other needful buildings
-And

To make all laws which shall be neccessary 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 of Office, Officer thereof.

## ARTICLE. II. - OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

### SEC. I. 
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 months, and together with the Vice President, chosen for the same term, be elected, as follows:

Each persons of the United States shall elect or choose for whom they believe be appointed President of the United States. 

No person except 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 fifteen years, and been four months a citizen of within the United States.

[In the case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, the same shall devolve on the Vice President.]

Before he enter on the Excecution of his Office, he 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."

### SEC. II. 
The President shall be the 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 the power to grant repreieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in the Cases of Impeachement.

He shall have the power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, or 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 the 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. 

### SEC. III.
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, or 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 recieve 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.

### SEC. IV.
The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachement for, and conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

## ARTICLE. III. - THE JUDICIARY 

### SEC. 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. 

### SEC. 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 effecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;- to all cases of admiralty and maritime juristiction;- to controversies 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.]

In all cases effecting 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 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. 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 mitnesses to the same overt act, or on the 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 forefeiture except during the life of the person attained.

## ARTICLE. IV. - AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION

### SEC. I. 
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 who thirds of the several states, shall call a convention of proposing amendments, which in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, which ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress.

### SEC. II.
No new Constitution shall be proposed without the bringing of a Constitution Convention which may be called by the President of the United States, in concurrence with the Speaker and Chief Justice, approved by group management, which shall consist of the President and Vice President, the Congress of the United States, the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Cabinet, and will, when completed, be ratified by the people of the United States with three fourths approval of all voting citizens.

### SEC. III. 
No amendment may affect the operation of this article, nor may any changes be made to this article.

## ARTICLE. V. - LAWS AND ENGAGEMENTS

### SEC. I. 
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, 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 state shall be bound thereby, any thing in the Constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.

The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and members of the several state legislatures, and executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constituton; but no religious test shall ever be required as qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.

# AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION
> The Amendments to the Constitution of the United States as ratified by the states or Congress of the United States.

Articles in addition to, and amendment of, the Constitution of the United States of America.

## ARTICLE. I.

### SEC. I.
Employment in more than one civil office shall be prohibited.

### SEC. II. 
A civil office shall be defined as Cabinet Secretaries, Court Judges, and Members of Congress.

### SEC. III.
Congress may expand on what further offices are civil under the United States but may not encroach upon the definition laid out in Section II of this Article.

## ARTICLE. II.

### SEC. I. 
In elections for President of the United States, candidates for President of the United States shall submit in writing to Congress a letter 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 candidates choice for their Vice President of the United States.

## ARTICLE. III.

### SEC. I. 
The President of the United States, Vice President of the United States, and Speaker of the House in concurrence shall have the right to request from the people a referendum to veto a law or an executive order, and must recieve sixty percent or more of the peoples concent for the referendum to pass.

## ARTICLE. IV.

### SEC. I.
The Supreme Court shall have the power to expel its members or members of the Federal District Court provided two thirds of the Court vote in favor.

### SEC. II. 
The Supreme Court shall have four justices and a Chief Justice, and the Federal District Court shall have five judges, whose count may be expanded by Congress but not lowered past three, and judges appointed shall not be deprived of their sitting on the bench due to congressional adjustment of the Federal District Courts size.

## ARTICLE. V.

### SEC. I.
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 of which another persons was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. 

## ARTICLE. VI.

### SEC. I.
Before a Senator of Representative is able to exercise his office, he must take the following oath or affirmation, "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfuly discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God."

## ARTICLE. VII.

### SEC. I.
In the case of the removal of the President of the United States from office, his death, or resignation, the Vice President of the United States shall become President of the United States. 

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

### SEC. III.
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 countrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.

### SEC. IV.
Whenever the Vice President and a unamimous consent of the principal officers of the executive departments transmits 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 his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and unanimous consent of the principal officers of the executive departments transmit within two days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and 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 the Congress, within one week after receipt of the latter written declaration, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses of Congress 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.








