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DIGEST OF THE CONSTITUTION.
  Art. Sec. Pa.
States prohibited from      
    Passing bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, or laws impairing contracts, 1 10 8
    Granting titles of nobility, 1 10 8
    Laying imposts, or duties on imports and exports, for their own use, 1 10 8
    Laying duties on tonnage without the consent of Congress, 1 10 8
    Keeping troops or ships of war in time of peace, 1 10 8
    Entering into any contract or agreement with another state, or a foreign power, 1 10 8
    Engaging in war, unless invaded or in imminent danger, 1 10 8
States, new, may be admitted into the Union, 4 3 14
    May be formed within the jurisdiction of others, or by the junction of two or more, with the consent of Congress and the legislatures concerned, 4 3 14
States, judges of, bound to consider the treaties, the Constitution, and the laws under it, as supreme, 6 1 15
States, majority of all, necessary to the choice of President, 2 1 9
State, each, to be guarantied a republican form of government; protected against invasion; and secured, upon application, against domestic violence, 4 4 14
       
Tax, capitation or direct, shall be laid only in proportion to census, 1 9 7
Tax on exports from a state prohibited, 1 9 7
Taxes, direct, shall be apportioned according to representation, 1 2 2
Territory, or property belonging to the United States, Congress may make rules concerning, 4 3 14
Test, religious, shall not be required, 1   18
Titles. (See Nobility.) 1 9 8
Title, from foreign state. (See Presents.) 1 9 8
Treason, defined, 3 3 13
    Two witnesses, or confession, necessary for conviction, 3 3 13
    Punishment of, may be prescribed by Congress with one limitation, 3 3 13
Treason, or other crime, persons charged with in one state, fleeing into another, shall, on demand, be delivered up, 4 2 13
Treasury, money drawn from only by appropriation, 1 9 8
Treaties, the supreme law, 6 1 15
       
Vacancies happening during recess of the Senate may be filled temporarily by the President, 2 2 11
    In representation in Congress, how filled, 1 2 2
Vessels to enter, clear, and pay duties in the states in which they arrive, or from which they depart, 1 9 7
Vice-President of the United States      
    To be President of the Senate, except when exercising the office of President of the United States, 1 3 3
    How elected, 2 1 8
    Qualifications for. 12th amendment,     20
    Shall, in certain cases, discharge the duties of President, 2 1 10
    May be removed by impeachment, 2 4 11
Vote of one house requiring concurrence of the other, 1 7 5
       
Warrants for searches and seizures, when and how they shall issue. 4th amendment,     19
Witness, in criminal cases, no one compelled to be against himself. 5th amendment,     19