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or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another State,
or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent
danger as will not admit of delay

STATE. Each State shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, the

electors of President and Vice President of the United States. (See Election.)
STATE. The judicial power shall extend to controversies to which the United States shall be a

party; to controversies between two or more States; between a State and citizens of an-
other 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

STATE. In all cases in which a State shall be a party, the Supreme Court shall have original
jurisdiction.

STATE. 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.

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

STATE. The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens
in the several States
STATE. A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or 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
STATE. No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into
another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such
service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or
labor may be due

STATE. The Congress shall have power to dispose of, and make all needful rules and regula-
tions respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States; and no-

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thing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claim of the United States, or of any particular State....

STATE. The United States shall guaranty 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 or of the Executive, (when the Legislature cannot be convened,) against do-
mestic violence
STATE. No State, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate...
STATE. The judges in every State shall be bound by the Constitution, laws, and treaties of the
United States, any thing in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwith-
standing
STATE Legislatures. 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 by
oath or affirmation to support this Constitution..

STATE. 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
STATE. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public
trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been com-
mitted; which district shall have been previously ascertained by law.

STATE. In choosing the President, (by the House of Reps.,) the vote shall be taken by States,
the Representatives 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.

STATE. 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

STATES. Representatives in Congress to be chosen every two years by the people of the States TATES. Representatives and direct taxes to be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers.

STATES entitled to representatives in the first Congress were. The..

New Hampshire, 3; Massachusetts, 8; Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 1; Connecticut, 5; New York, 6; New Jersey, 4; Pennsylvania, 8; Delaware, 1;

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Maryland, 6; Virginia, 10; North Carolina, 5; South Carolina, 5; Georgia, 3. Whole
number, 65.
STATES. Congress shall have power to regulate commerce among the several States and with
the Indian tribes.
STATES. Congress shall have power 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 by Congress..
STATES. Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever,
over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) 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, magazines, arsenals,
dock-yards, and other needful buildings.

STATES. The migration or importation of such persons as any of the States now existing shall
think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by Congress prior to the year 1808, but a tax
or duty may be imposed on such importation not exceeding ten dollars for each person...
STATES. The President shall not receive, during the time for which he shall have been elected,
any emolument from any of the States

STATES. The President shall be Commander-in-Chief of the militia of the several States when
called into the actual service of the United States
STATES. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall
be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed
by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the Legis-
latures of the States concerned, as well as of the Congress..
STATES. 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 by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several States, or by conventions in
three-fourths thereof.

STATES. The ratification of the conventions of nine States shall be sufficient for the establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the same.....

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ALPHABETICAL ANALYSIS-Continued.

STATES. The Constitution adopted in Convention by the unanimous consent of the deputies
from all the States present, the 17th day of September, A. D. 1787, and of the Indepen-
dence of the United States of America the twelfth. The following States being repre-
sented: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Penn-
sylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia..
STATES. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by

it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people..
STATES. 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
SUBJECTS. The judicial power shall extend to all cases between a State, or the citizens thereof,
and foreign States, citizens or subjects..

SUBJECTS of any foreign State. 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
SUFFRAGE. No State, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate
SUITS. 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
law
re-examined in any court of the United States than according to the rules of the common

SUITS. 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..

SUNDAYS excepted. Ten days allowed the President to return a bill, resolution, &c...
SUPPORT the Constitution. The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the mem-
bers of the several State Legislatures, and all Executive and judicial officers, both of the
United States and of the several States, shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support
this Constitution, &c....

Court
SUPREME Court. Congress shall have power to constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme
SUPREME Court. (See appointment of Judges of. &c.)..

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SUPREME Court. 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.

SUPREME Court. 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 jurisdic-
tion, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations, as the
Congress shall make.

SUPREME law of the land. (See Constitution-Laws-Treaties.).

TAX. A tax or duty on imported persons (slaves) might have been imposed up to 1808.. TAX. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken

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TAX. No amendment made prior to 1808, shall in any manner affect the preceding clause.. TAX. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any State...... TAXED. Indians not taxed excluded from representative numbers..

TAXES.

TAXES.

Representatives and direct taxes to be apportioned among the States according to their respective numbers..

Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes.
TENDER. No State shall make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts
TERM of election of Representatives in Congress-to be chosen every two years......
The census shall be taken within every term of ten years subsequent to the

TERM of ten years.

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TERM of citizenship as qualification for a Representative in Congress-seven years TERM of years. Representative numbers include those persons bound to service for a term of years

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TERM of office of Senators in Congress-to be chosen for six years
TERM of citizenship as qualification for a Senator in Congress-nine years.
TERM of office. The President shall hold his office during the term of four years, and the Vice
President chosen for the same term . . . . . . . .

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