- Article I: Legislative Branch
- Section 1: All legislative powers granted to Congress
- Section 2: House of Representatives
- Section 3: Senate
- Section 4: Elections, meetings
- Section 5: Members, officers, discipline
- Section 6: Compensation, privileges, restrictions
- Section 7: Revenue bills, presidential veto
- Section 8: Powers of Congress
- Section 9: Limits on Congress
- Section 10: Limits on states
- Article II: Executive Branch
- Section 1: President, Vice President, election, removal
- Section 2: Powers of President
- Section 3: Duties of President
- Section 4: Impeachment
- Article III: Judicial Branch
- Section 1: Federal courts, tenure, compensation
- Section 2: Jurisdiction of federal courts
- Section 3: Treason
- Article IV: States’ Relations
- Section 1: Full faith and credit
- Section 2: Privileges and immunities, extradition
- Section 3: New states, federal property
- Section 4: Republican government, protection
- Article V: Amending the Constitution
- Proposal by Congress or convention; ratification by states
- Article VI: Supremacy Clause
- Constitution, laws, treaties are supreme law; oaths of office; no religious test
- Article VII: Ratification
- Ratification by nine states
- Bill of Rights (First Ten Amendments)
- Amendment I: Freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, petition
- Amendment II: Right to bear arms
- Amendment III: Quartering of soldiers
- Amendment IV: Search and seizure
- Amendment V: Grand jury, double jeopardy, self-incrimination, due process
- Amendment VI: Speedy trial, impartial jury, confrontation, counsel
- Amendment VII: Jury trial in civil cases
- Amendment VIII: Excessive bail, fines, cruel punishment
- Amendment IX: Unenumerated rights
- Amendment X: Powers reserved to states or people
- Other Key Amendments
- Amendment XI: Sovereign immunity
- Amendment XII: Election of President and Vice President
- Amendment XIII: Abolition of slavery
- Amendment XIV: Citizenship, due process, equal protection
- Amendment XV: Voting rights regardless of race
- Amendment XVI: Income tax
- Amendment XVII: Direct election of Senators
- Amendment XVIII: Prohibition (repealed by XXI)
- Amendment XIX: Women’s suffrage
- Amendment XX: Presidential succession, terms
- Amendment XXI: Repeal of Prohibition
- Amendment XXII: Two-term limit for President
- Amendment XXIII: Electoral College for D.C.
- Amendment XXIV: Abolition of poll taxes
- Amendment XXV: Presidential succession and disability
- Amendment XXVI: Voting age lowered to 18
- Amendment XXVII: Congressional pay changes
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