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The Constitution of The United States of America

Article 1: The Legislative Branch

Section 1: Establishes the bicameral Congress
Section 2: Establishes the House of Representatives
Section 3: Establishes the Senate
Section 4: Elections and meetings for the House and Senate
Section 5: Establishes the Congressional Record and expains recesses, admission of members, and rules for meetings.
Section 6: Deals with compensation, immunities, and disability of members
Section 7: Establishes the House as the start of all revenue bills. Establishes the different things the President can do after a bill is passed by the Congress. He/she can 1) sign the bill, 2)veto the bill, 3) not act on the bill for 10 days allowing it to be law, 4) "Pocket veto" the bill, by waiting until the Congress adjourns before the 10 day limit.
Section 8: Establishes Powers of Congress
  1. Making and Collecting Taxes
  2. Borrowing
  3. Regulate Trade
  4. Decide on naturalization standards
  5. Complete control of the U.S. Mint
  6. Punishing Counterfeiters
  7. Establish Post Offices and Postal Routes
  8. Issue of Patents and Copyrights
  9. Create Lower Federal Courts
  10. Define and Punish Piracy of any kind
  11. To Declare War
  12. Raise and Support Armies
  13. Raise and Support Navy
  14. Establish a Uniform Code of Military Justice
  15. Suppress Insurrections, and Repel Invaders.
  16. Organizing, Arming, and Disciplining the Militia
  17. Purchase of Seceded State Lands for the Seat of Government, ie. the District of Columbia
  18. The Necessary and Proper Clause, also the Elastic Clause- Whatever the Congress deems necessary to fulfill these tasks.
Section 9: Powers Denied to Congress
  1. An obsolete Clause about the Slave trade referring to taxes on slaves.
  2. Issue of the "Writ of Habeas Corpus"
  3. Issue of Bill of Attainder or Ex Post Facto
  4. No capitation taxes, or a tax levied on each person in the population.
  5. No tax on exports, only imports
  6. No titles of Nobility
Section 10: Powers denied to the States
  1. No foreign treaties because states are not sovereign
  2. No state import or export taxes in relation to foreign trade
  3. No standing army,or navy

Article 2: The Executive Branch

Section 1: Establishes the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Positions, Their Parameters, Compensation, and Oath, and the Electoral College.
Section 2: Establishes the President as Commander in Chief, and gives the President the Authority to Establish a Cabinet, and Identifies other Key Powers and Duties.
Section 3: Establishes the State of the Union Address and the Power to Call Special Sessions.
Section 4: Outlines Impeachment.

Article 3: The Judicial Branch

Section 1: Establishes Supreme Court and Lower Federal Courts.
Section 2: Establishes the Jurisdiction of the Federal Courts (All offenses of the Constitution), and Trial by Jury.
Section 3: Establishes the Boundaries of Treason.

Article 4: Relations Among States

Section 1: All States Must Recognize the Validity of Every Other States' Laws, Court Decisions, etc.
Section 2: No State Can Draw Unreasonable Destinctions Between Its Own Residents and Those of Any Other State.
Section 3: New States Can Only Be Erected By Congress and Never Within The Boundaries of Another State.
Section 4: The U.S.A. Shall Protect Each State From Invasion and Entitles Each State a Republican Form of Government.

Article 5: Provisions For Amendment

This Article refers to the methods to make formal changes or additions to the Constitution. This takes a two-thirds majority in both Houses of Congress.

Article 6: National Debts, Supremacy of National Law, Oath

Section 1: Promised to repay all debts promised by the United States Government.
Section 2: Established the Constitution to be The Supreme Law of the Land. No State May Counter Any Laws Passed by the Congress.
Section 3: All Officials Must Swear to Uphold the Constitution of the United States and to Make Their Allegiance to the United States Their Top Priority.

Article 7: Ratification of the Constitution

Required 9 of the 13 States to Ratify this Document in Order for it to Become the Constitution of the United States. Signed on September 17, 1787.
The Amendments
1st Amendment: Grants Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition.
2nd Amendment: Each State has the right to maintain a militia.
3rd Amendment: The Government cannot force residents to house troops.
4th Amendment: All citizens are protected from illegal searches and seizures.
5th Amendment: All Criminals are entitled to Due Process, and Private Land can be made into Public Land if the Government deems it necessary for the public's use.
6th Amendment: All Criminals have the right to a speedy and public trial among their peers, and have the right to an attorney.
7th Amendment: In a civil case, The Defendent and Plaintiff are entitled to a trial by jury if the money involved exceeds 20 dollars.
8th Amendment: No cruel and unusual punishment shall be imposed on a citizen or prisoner.
9th Amendment: Expresses the Fact that there are other citizen's rights not expressed in the Bill of Rights (The first ten amendments) that are still to be upheld.
10th Amendment: States have rights not expressed in the Constitution as well.
11th Amendment: No State can be sued by a member of another State or Country.
12th Amendment: Defines the Election of the President and Vice-President.
13th Amendment: The first Civil Rights Amendment, issued by Abraham Lincoln, aboloshing slavery or involuntary servitude, except prison sentences.
14th Amendment: Defines certain civil rights of citizens not expressed in the Bill of Rights but protected by the 9th Amendment. This was passed because of repeated oppression of former slaves in the South. It also said that any member of an inner rebellion or insurrection shall not occupy an office of the U.S. Congress, Presidency, or Judicial Branch, and it nulled the Confederate debt.
15th Amendment: Gave the right to vote to every male citizen regardless of Race, Color, or former Servitude.
16th Amendment: Established a National Income Tax.
17th Amendment: Gave the People the right to Elect Senators.
18th Amendment: Prohibition of Intoxicating Liquors.
19th Amendment: Gave women the right to vote.
20th Amendment: Moved the Date of the New President and Vice Presidents taking their respective offices to January 4th. Also, Set the dates of the ends of terms.
21st Amendment: Repealed the 18th Amendment.
22nd Amendment: No person shall be elected to the Presidency more than twice, and can serve as President for no longer than 10 years.
23rd Amendment: Included Electors from the District of Columbia in the Presidential Electoral Process.
24th Amendment: No poll taxes need to be paid in order to vote.
25th Amendment: This set the path to the succession of the President in case of his or her inability to run the Presidency competently.
26th Amendment: All citizens 18 years of age and older have the right to vote.
27th Amendment: Limits Congress' power to fix the salaries of its members.
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