ARTICLE XV. ELECTIVE FRANCHISE. SECTION 1. Right of all citizens to vote. 2. Power of Congress to enforce this Article. all citizens SECTION 1. The right of citizens of the United States Right of to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United to vote. States or by any State, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. SEC. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this Article by appropriate legislation. [U. S. Statutes at Large, Vol. 15, p. 346. Power of Congress to enforce this Article. 46-VOL. II-POL. INDEX TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. Art. Sec. Acts, etc., of each State entitled to credit in other States Attainder, bill of, prohibited Attainder, of treason, not to work corruption of blood, etc.. Bills, for revenue, shall originate in the House of Representatives.. Bills, not returned in ten days considered approved..... Capitation tax.............. Census, to be taken every ten years. Claims, of the United States, or of the several States, not to be preju diced.. Citizens, of each State, privileges in other States 45113 1 4 .................. Amendment] 14 1 1 who are..... may alter the regulations of State Legislatures concerning 16 1 shall assemble every year...... 444 1 may provide for cases of removal, etc., of President and Vice may determine time of choosing Electors of President and 2 may vest the appointment of inferior officers in the President 2 may from time to time establish Courts inferior to Supreme 1.2 13 3 3 may declare the punishment of treason........ may prescribe the manner of proving the acts, records, etc., the assent of, required to formation of a new State within the assent of, required to the admission of new States into the to establish uniform laws of bankruptcy and naturalization Art. Sec. Congress (continued) to punish counterfeiting.... to establish Post Offices and post roads....... to authorize patents to authors and inventors..... to constitute tribunals interior to the Supreme Court..... to declare war, grant letters of marque, and make rules to raise and support armies..... to provide and maintain a navy........ to make rules for the government of the army and navy... to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the to exercise exclusive legislation over certain places....... to dispose of and make rules concerning the territory or 4 ...... Amendment 13 Amendment 14 15 Constitution, laws, and treaties declared to be the supreme law.............. established by the ratification of nine States................ Court, Supreme, its original and appellate jurisdiction.. interior, may be established..... Crimes, persons accused of, fleeing from justice, may be demanded.... Duties, on exports, prohibited........ on imports and exports, not to be laid by the States without Elections, of Senators and Representatives to be prescribed by the States right of all citizens to vote at........... .... Amendment Electors, of President and Vice President, how chosen and their duties same.... shall vote the same day throughout the United States.......... serve as...... Executive power, shall be vested in a President.... Er post facto law, prohibited...... Habeas corpus, can only be suspended in cases of rebellion or invasion Imposts, power to levy.... Importation, of persons, not to be prohibited prior to 1808... Judges, to hold office during good behavior..... compensation, not to be diminished. Judicial power, where vested... the cases to which it extends... limitation on........ Amendment Judicial proceedings, etc., of each State entitled to full faith and credit in every other State Jury, trial by, secured.......... trial by, secured.... ....Amendment trial in suits at common law.............................. Law, the Constitution, the laws, and treaties of the United States de clared the supreme... Legislative Power, vested in Congress......... Money, to be drawn from the Treasury only by laws appropriating.... Officers, civil, removable by impeachment of Senate, how chosen.... Order, to be approved by the President........ Office, certain, not to be filled by members of Congress........ persons holding office under the United States not to be a certain persons disqualified from holding.. Persons, importation of, not to be prohibited prior to eighteen hundred and eight....... escaping from one State to another to be delivered up...... Powers, not delegated, reserved-Tenth Amendment...... Presents, emoluments, office or title, from foreign State, prohibited.. how elected...... same-Twelfth Amendment.... qualifications for compensation of oath of office....... ................ removable by impeachment.... shall be Commander in Chief of the army and navy. may require the written opinions of the heads of departments.. may make treaties with consent of Senate................... may appoint to office with consent of Senate. shall fill vacancies happening during the recess of Senate..... shall receive Ambassadors, etc.... shall take care that the laws be executed..... shall commission all officers of the United States....... in case of death of, etc., on whom to devolve...... Property, shall not be taken for public use without just compensation- public debts not to be questioned nor repudiated.... Quorum, for business...... of States, in choosing a President by the House of Repre- Receipts and Expenditures, account of, to be published...... qualifications of members. who are disqualified. how apportioned. not to exceed one for every thirty thousand how.apportioned .Amendment 14 vacancies, how filled..... 1 shall have power of impeachment.......... 5 judge of the election, etc., of its members quorum of.......... any number may adjourn and compel absentees to attend.. may punish or expel a member..... shall keep a journal and publish the same, except the parts 1 |