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Amendment
XI. (Article XI)
The Judicial power of the United States shall not
be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity,
commenced or prosecuted against one of the United
States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens
or Subjects of any Foreign State.
Amendment
XII. (Article XII)
The Electors shall meet in their respective states,
and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President,
one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant
of the same state with themselves; they shall name
in their ballots the person voted for as President,
and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President,
and they shall make distinct lists of all persons
voted for as President, and of all persons voted for
as Vice- President, and of the number of votes for
each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and
transmit sealed to the seat of 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 votes shall then be counted;--The
person having the greatest number of votes for President,
shall be the President, if such number be a majority
of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if
no person have such majority, then from the persons
having the highest numbers not exceeding three on
the list of those voted for as President, the House
of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot,
the President. But in choosing the President, the
votes shall be taken by states, the representation
from each state having one vote; a quorum for this
purpose shall consist of a member or members from
two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the
states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the
House of Representatives shall not choose a President
whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them,
before the fourth day of March next following, then
the Vice-President shall act as President, as in the
case of the death or other constitutional disability
of the President. --The person having the greatest
number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President,
if such number be a majority of the whole number of
Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority,
then from the two highest numbers on the list, the
Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for
the purpose shall consist of two- thirds of the whole
number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number
shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally
ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible
to that of Vice-President of the United States.
Amendment
XIII. (Article XIII)
Section 1.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except
as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall
have been duly convicted, 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. (Article XIV)
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 State wherein they
reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which
shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens
of the United States; nor shall any State 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.
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several
States according to their respective numbers, counting
the whole number of persons in each State, excluding
Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at
any election for the choice of electors for President
and Vice President of the United States, Representatives
in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers
of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof,
is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such
State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens
of the United States, or in any way abridged, except
for participation in rebellion, or other crime,
the basis of representation therein shall be reduced
in the proportion which the number of such male
citizens shall bear to the whole number of male
citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
Section 3.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in
Congress, or elector of President and Vice President,
or hold any office, civil or military, under the
United States, or under any State, who, having previously
taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an
officer of the United States, or as a member of
any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial
officer of any State, 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 4.
The validity of the public debt of the United States,
authorized by law, including debts incurred for
payment of pensions and bounties for services in
suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not
be questioned. But neither the United States nor
any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation
incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against
the United States, or any claim for the loss or
emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations
and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Section 5.
The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate
legislation, the provisions of this article.
Amendment
XV. (Article XV)
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. (Article XVI)
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes
on incomes, from whatever source derived, without
apportionment among the several States, and without
regard to any census or enumeration.
Amendment
XVII. (Article XVII)
The Senate of the United States shall be composed
of two Senators from each State, elected by the people
thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have
one vote. The electors in each State shall have the
qualifications requisite for electors of the most
numerous branch of the State legislatures.
When vacancies happen in the representation of any
State in the Senate, the executive authority of such
State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies:
Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower
the executive thereof to make temporary appointments
until the people fill the vacancies by election as
the legislature may direct.This amendment shall not
be so construed as to affect the election or term
of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part
of the Constitution.
Amendment
XVIII. (Article XVIII)
Section 1.
After one year from the ratification of this article
the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating
liquors within, the importation thereof into, or
the exportation thereof from the United States and
all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof
for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
Section 2.
The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent
power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Section 3.
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall
have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution
by the legislatures of the several States, as provided
in the Constitution, within seven years from the
date of the submission hereof to the States by the
Congress.
Amendment
XIX. (Article XIX)
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 sex.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article
by appropriate legislation.
Amendment
XX. (Article XX)
Section 1.
The terms of the President and Vice President shall
end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the
terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on
the 3d day of January, of the years in which such
terms would have ended if this article had not been
ratified; and the terms of their successors shall
then begin.
Section 2.
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every
year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the
3d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint
a different day.
Section 3.
If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term
of the President, the President elect shall have
died, the Vice President elect shall become President.
If a President shall not have been chosen before
the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or
if the President elect shall have failed to qualify,
then the Vice President elect shall act as President
until a President shall have qualified; and the
Congress may by law provide for the case wherein
neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect
shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act
as President, or the manner in which one who is
to act shall be selected, and such person shall
act accordingly until a President or Vice President
shall have qualified.
Section 4.
The Congress may by law provide for the case of the
death of any of the persons from whom the House
of Representatives may choose a President whenever
the right of choice shall have devolved upon them,
and for the case of the death of any of the persons
from whom the Senate may choose a Vice President
whenever the right of choice shall have devolved
upon them.
Section 5.
Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day
of October following the ratification of this article.
Section 6.
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall
have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution
by legislatures of three-fourths of the several
States within seven years from the date of its submission.
Amendment
XXI. (Article XXI)
Section 1.
The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution
of the United States is hereby repealed.
Section 2.
The transportation or importation into any State,
Territory, or possession of the United States for
delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors,
in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.
Section 3.
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall
have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution
by conventions in the several States, as provided
in the Constitution, within seven years from the
date of the submission hereof to the States by the
Congress.
Amendment
XXII. (Article XXII)
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 years 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.
Section 2.
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall
have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution
by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several
States within seven years from the date of its submission
to the States by the Congress.
Amendment
XXIII. (Article XXIII)
Section 1.
The District constituting the seat of Government of
the United States shall appoint in such manner as
the Congress may direct:
A number of electors of President and Vice President
equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives
in Congress to which the District would be entitled
if it were a State, but in no event more than the
least populous State; they shall be in addition to
those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered,
for the purposes of the election of President and
Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State;
and they shall meet in the District and perform such
duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.
Section 2.
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article
by appropriate legislation.
Amendment
XXIV. (Article XXIV)
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 State 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
XXV. (Amendment XXV)
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 his 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 Representative
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.
Article
XXVI. (Amendment XXVI)
Section 1.
The right of citizens of the United States, who are
eighteen years of age 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
XXVII. (Article XVII)
No law, varying the compensation for the services
of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect,
until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.
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