PREFACE ---
SOME JUDICIAL DIVERSITIES --
THE PREAMBLE --
ARTICLE I. THE NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE POWERS --
SECTIONS 1-6: The Houses of Congress, Their Composition, Method of Choice of Members of, Organization, Respective Functions of in Connec- tion with Impeachments, Regulation of Elections to, Times of Meeting of, Control of over Mem- bers, Rules of Procedure of, Privileges and Dis- abilities of Members --
SECTION 7: The Veto Power --
SECTION 8: The Legislative Powers of Congress --
SECTION 9: Some Restrictions on These Powers --
SECTION 10: Some Restrictions on the Powers of the States --
ARTICLE II. THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE POWER --
SECTION 1, PARAGRAPH 1: The "Executive Power" Clause --
SECTION 1, PARAGRAPHS 2-8: Term and Manner of Election of President, Qualifications of President, Succession of Vice-President and Powers of Con- gress to Determine the Presidential Succession, Compensation of President, Oath of Office of --
SECTION 2: The President as Commander-in-Chief, Pardoning Power of, Treaty-Making Power of, Appointive Power of, Power to Fill Vacancies --
SECTION 3: Power and Duty of to Inform Con- gress of "the State of the Union," to Convene Spe- cial Sessions of Congress or of Either House, --
Power to Receive Ambassadors, etc., Duty to "Take Care that the Laws be Faithfully Executed" --
SECTION 4: Liability of the President and "All Civil Officers of the United States" to Impeach- ment --
ARTICLE III. THE NATIONAL JUDICIAL POWER --
SECTION 1: The National Judicial Establishment and Security of Tenure of Judges --
SECTION 2: Scope of the Jurisdiction of the Nation- al Courts, Including "Cases... Arising under the Constitution," Original and Appellate Jurisdic tion of the Supreme Court, Trial by Jury Preserved --
SECTION 3: "Treason against the United States," and Method of Proof thereof --
ARTICLE IV. THE FEDERAL ARTICLE --
SECTION 1: The "Full Faith and Credit" Clause --
SECTION 2: "Privileges and Immunities of Citi- zens of the Several States," Interstate Extradition --
SECTION 3: Power of Congress to Admit New States into "This Union," Its Power over the Property and Territories of the United States --
SECTION 4: Guarantee by the United States of "a Republican Form of Government" and of Assist- ance in Repressing "Domestic Violence" --
ARTICLE V. THE AMENDING POWER --
ARTICLE VI. THE SUPREMACY OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT WITHIN ITS ASSIGNED FIELD --
ARTICLE VII. THE SCHEDULE --
THE BILL OF RIGHTS --
Purpose of --
The Warren Court and the Second Constitutional Revolution --
AMENDMENT I. Freedom of Worship, Speech, Press, and Assembly --
AMENDMENTS II AND III. The Right to Bear Arms and Ban on Quartering Soldiers on Householders --
AMENDMENT IV. Ban on "Unreasonable Searches and Seizures" --
AMENDMENT V. The Grand Jury Process, Rights of Accused Persons, the "Due Process of Law" and "Just Compensation" Clauses --
AMENDMENT VI. Trial by Jury, Further Rights of Accused Persons --
AMENDMENT VII. Trial by Jury in Civil Cases --
AMENDMENT VIII. No "Cruel and Unusual Punish- ments" --
AMENDMENT IX. General Reservation of Fundamental Rights --
AMENDMENT X. The Reserved Powers of the States --
THE CORRECTIVE AMENDMENTS --
AMENDMENT XI. The National Judicial Power Curbed in Relation to the States --
AMENDMENT XII. The Procedure of Electing the Presi- dent Altered --
THE WAR AMENDMENTS --
AMENDMENT XIII. Slavery Abolished --
AMENDMENT XIV. Civil Rights versus the States --
SECTION 1: Citizenship of the United States De- fined and the Privileges and Immunities thereof --
Protected against State Abridgment, the "Due Process of Law" and "Equal Protection of the Laws" Clauses --
SECTIONS 2-4 [Of historical interest only] --
SECTION 5: Powers of Congress to Protect Civil --
Rights throughout the United States --
AMENDMENT XV. Negro Suffrage --
TWENTIETH CENTURY AMENDMENTS --
AMENDMENT XVI. Power of Congress to Tax Incomes --
AMENDMENT XVII. Popular Election of Senators --
AMENDMENT XVIII. National Prohibition --
AMENDMENT XIX. Woman Suffrage --
AMENDMENT XX. Inauguration of the President and the Assembling of Congress Put Forward, Succes- sion to the Presidency Further Provided for --
AMENDMENT XXI. National Prohibition Repealed --
AMENDMENT XXII. Anti-Third Term --
AMENDMENT XXIII. Presidential Electors for District of Columbia --
AMENDMENT XXIV. Qualifications of Electors; Poll Tax --
AMENDMENT XXV. Succession to Presidency and Vice Presidency: Disability of President --
AMENDMENT XXVI. Right to Vote; Citizens Eighteen --
Years of Age or Older --
PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT --
EPILOGUE --
TEXT OF THE CONSTITUTION --
TABLE OF CASES --
INDEX --
1973 SUPPLEMENT --
1974 SUPPLEMENT --
TABLE OF CASES, 1973 AND 1974 SUPPLEMENTS.