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1 GENERAL PROVISIONS 2 THE CONGRESS 3 THE PRESIDENT 4 FLAG AND SEAL, SEAT OF GOVERNMENT 5 GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES 6 DOMESTIC SECURITY 7 AGRICULTURE 8 ALIENS AND NATIONALITY 9 ARBITRATION 10 ARMED FORCES 11 BANKRUPTCY 12 BANKS AND BANKING 13 CENSUS 14 COAST GUARD 15 COMMERCE AND TRADE 16 CONSERVATION 17 COPYRIGHTS 18 CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

19 CUSTOMS DUTIES 20 EDUCATION 21 FOOD AND DRUGS 22 FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE 23 HIGHWAYS 24 HOSPITALS AND ASYLUMS 25 INDIANS 26 INTERNAL REVENUE CODE 27 INTOXICATING LIQUORS 28 JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE 29 LABOR 30 MINERAL LANDS AND MINING 31 MONEY AND FINANCE 32 NATIONAL GUARD 33 NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS

35 PATENTS 36 PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, 37 PAY AND ALLOWANCES OF THE UNIFORMED 38 VETERANS' BENEFITS 39 POSTAL SERVICE 40 PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS 41 PUBLIC CONTRACTS 42 THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE 43 PUBLIC LANDS 44 PUBLIC PRINTING AND DOCUMENTS 45 RAILROADS 46 SHIPPING 47 TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND 48 TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS 49 TRANSPORTATION 50 WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Article. I.

Section. 1.

All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

Section. 2.

The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.

No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.

Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.

When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies.

The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.More...