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of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, That the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all, or any of which articles, when ratified by threefourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz.

Articles in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States pursuant to the fifth article of the original Constitution.

The first ten amendments of the Constitution were ratified by the States as follows, viz.:

By New Jersey, 20th November, 1789.
By Maryland, 19th December, 1789.
By North Carolina, 22d December, 1789.
By South Carolina, 19th January, 1790.
By New Hampshire, 25th January, 1790.
By Delaware, 28th January, 1790.
By Pennsylvania, 10th March, 1790.
By New York, 27th March, 1790.
By Rhode Island, 15th June, 1790.
By Vermont, 3 November, 1791.
By Virginia, 15 December, 1791.

The following is prefixed to the eleventh of the preceding amendments:

THIRD CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES:

At the first session, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday the second of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, That the following Article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States; which when ratified by three-fourths of the said Legislatures shall be valid as part of the said Constitution, viz:

The following is prefixed to the twelfth of the preceding amendments:

EIGHTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES:

At the first session, begun and held at the city of Wash

ington, in the Territory of Columbia, on Monday the seventeenth of October, one thousand eight hundred and three.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, Two thirds of both Houses concurring, that in lieu of the third paragraph of the first section of the second article

of the Constitution of the United States, the following be proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of the legislatures of the several states, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution, to wit:

The ten first of the preceding amendments were proposed at the first session of the first Congress, of the United States, 25 September, 1789, and were finally ratified by the constitutional number of States, on the 15th day of December, 1791. The eleventh amendment was proposed at the first session of the third Congress, 5 March, 1794, and was declared in a message from the President of the United States to both houses of Congress, dated 8th January, 1798, to have been adopted by the constitutional number of States. The twelfth amendment was proposed at the first session of the eighth Congress, 12 December, 1803, and was adopted by the constitutional number of States in 1804, according to a public notice thereof by the Secretary of State, dated 25th September, of the same year.

DESIGN OF THE ANALYSIS.

1. EVERY substantive matter, or point, contained in each article, section, or clause, embracing every subject, name and definition in the Constitution, has been arranged in alphabetical order. The entire clause in which each word so arranged occurs, being given.

2. All similar words, names, or terms used in the Constitution being thus brought together, saves the time and trouble of reading over that instrument in search of supposed terms or provisions, which, if they cannot be found in this Alphabetical Analysis, will not be found in the Constitution. Under the head of each branch of the Government, as Congress, Senate, House of Representatives, Executive or President, Judiciary, &c., will be found every power, duty, privilege, and restriction belonging to each, and joint or concurrent power with the other branches. In like manner, all provisions, regarding States, legislatures, persons, people, citizens, powers, offices, laws, elections, army, militia, navy, and every other subject contained in the Constitution, will all respectively, be found under one head.

3. By this arrangement the entire instrument is resolved into its elements, while all clauses containing like terms or provisions are drawn together in close contact, by the strictly alphabetical position of the similar terms or words in each, which proximity brings the whole into one view, to be seen at a glance, and being thus presented to the mind at once, the connection is more easily impressed upon and retained in the memory.

AN ALPHABETICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, AND OF THE
AMENDMENTS THERETO.

ABSENCE. In the absence of the Vice President the Senate shall choose a President pro tem.
ABSENT members. A smaller number than a majority of either House of Congress may com.
pel the attendance of absent members, in such manner, and under such penalties, as
each House may provide..

ACCEPT. No person holding any office of profit or trust under the United States, shall, without
the consent of Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind
whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign states..
ACCOUNT. A regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public
money shall be published from time to time..
ACCUSATION. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused to be informed of the nature and cause
of the accusation..
ACTS, records, and judicial proceedings. Full faith and credit shall be given in each State to the
public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other State. And the Congress
may, by general laws, prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and judicial pro-
ceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof..

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ACT as President. In case of the removal, death, resignation, or inability, of both the President
and Vice President, the Congress shall, by law, declare what officer shall then act as Pre-
sident, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed, or a Presi-
dent shall be elected.

ADJOURN from day to day. A smaller number than a majority of each House of Congress may
adjourn from day to day.

ADJOURN. Neither House, during the session of Congress, shall, without the consent of the
other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two
Houses may be sitting.
ADJOURNMENT. If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays
excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like man-

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