The Preamble*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.**
From Article I*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.**
From Article I*The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation.
When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the
Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.**
From Article I*Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to
the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which
it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration
two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall
likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law.**
From Article II*No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this
Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have
attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.**
From Article II*Before he enters the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm)
that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend
the Constitution of the United States."**
From Article II*The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States,
when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive
Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for
Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.**
From Article III*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.**
From Article IV*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 Legislatures of the
States concerned as well as of the Congress.**
Article V*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, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress;
Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses
in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.**
From Article VI*The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and 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;
but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.**
Article VII*The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States
so ratifying the Same.