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'We, the people of the [union], each State acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government ...' | |
'Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not ... expressly delegated to the United States' | |
'The United States in Congress ... shall ... be the last resort on appeal in all disputes and differences now subsisting or that hereafter may arise between two or more States' | |
'The executive power shall be vested in a President of the [union]. He and the Vice President shall hold their offices for the term of six years ...' | |
'The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this [union] between the States so ratifying the Same' | |
'Adopted unanimously by ... South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, sitting in ... the city of Montgomery, Ala.' | |
'Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States ... according to their respective numbers ... including ... three-fifths of all slaves' | |
'Canada acceding to this [union], and adjoining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this Union' | |
'The United States in Congress assembled shall never engage in a war ... unless nine States assent to the same' | |
'The importation of negroes of the African race from any foreign country other than the slaveholding States or Territories of the United States of America, is hereby forbidden' | |
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'The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes ... without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census ...' | |
'Upon the demand of any three States ... the Congress shall summon a convention of all the States, to take into consideration ... amendments to the Constitution ...' | |
'Congress shall appropriate no money from the Treasury except by a vote of two-thirds of both Houses' | |
'The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this [union] ... ' | |
' ... the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors ... for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited' | |
'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' | |
'All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this [union], shall be as valid against the [union] under this Constitution, as under the [prior union]' | |
'The Judicial power of the [union] shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, ... prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State' | |
'In determining questions in the United States in Congress assembled, each State shall have one vote' | |
'No vessel of war shall be kept up in time of peace by any State, except such number only, as shall be deemed necessary by the United States in Congress assembled' | |
'Canada acceding to this [union], and adjoining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this Union' | |
'No vessel of war shall be kept up in time of peace by any State, except such number only, as shall be deemed necessary by the United States in Congress assembled' | |
'Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not ... expressly delegated to the United States' | |
'The United States in Congress ... shall ... be the last resort on appeal in all disputes and differences now subsisting or that hereafter may arise between two or more States' | |
'The United States in Congress assembled shall never engage in a war ... unless nine States assent to the same' | |
'In determining questions in the United States in Congress assembled, each State shall have one vote' | |
'The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this [union] between the States so ratifying the Same' | |
'The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes ... without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census ...' | |
'All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this [union], shall be as valid against the [union] under this Constitution, as under the [prior union]' | |
'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' | |
'The Judicial power of the [union] shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, ... prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State' | |
'The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this [union] ... ' | |
' ... the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors ... for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited' | |
'We, the people of the [union], each State acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government ...' | |
'Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States ... according to their respective numbers ... including ... three-fifths of all slaves' | |
'Adopted unanimously by ... South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, sitting in ... the city of Montgomery, Ala.' | |
'Upon the demand of any three States ... the Congress shall summon a convention of all the States, to take into consideration ... amendments to the Constitution ...' | |
'The importation of negroes of the African race from any foreign country other than the slaveholding States or Territories of the United States of America, is hereby forbidden' | |
'Congress shall appropriate no money from the Treasury except by a vote of two-thirds of both Houses' | |
'The executive power shall be vested in a President of the [union]. He and the Vice President shall hold their offices for the term of six years ...' | |
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