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  United States Constitution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America and is the oldest written national constitution still in force.
Article Six establishes the Constitution and the and treaties of the United States made accordance with it as the supreme law of the land.
The United States is a law country and courts are obliged to the precedents established in prior cases.
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 The Constitution of the United States of America
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several states, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the states by the Congress.
The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within seven years from the date of its submission to the states by the Congress.
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 United States Constitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Article Two describes the presidency (the executive branch): procedures for the selection of the president, qualifications for office, the oath to be affirmed and the powers and duties of the office.
Article Three also requires trial by jury in all criminal cases, defines the crime of treason, and charges Congress with providing for a punishment for it, while imposing limits on that punishment.
The Annotated Constitution of the United States
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 Article Three of the United States Constitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Article Three of the United States Constitution establishes the judicial branch of the federal government.
United States, 219 U.S., the Supreme Court denied jurisdiction to cases brought under a statute permitting certain Native Americans to bring suits against the United States to determine the constitutionality of a law allocating tribal lands.
United States, however, the Supreme Court found that two witnesses are not required to prove intent; nor are two witnesses required to prove that an overt act is treasonable.
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 Constitution for the United States of America
Article the third [Amendment I] Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Article the twelfth [Amendment X] The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
The twenty-third article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
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 United States Constitution Amendments - Article I
Let it be borne in mind that ALL of the first ten Articles of Amendment are of national effect, are declaratory and restrictive, superceding all contravening portions of the national and state constitutions..
The State supreme courts, under State constitutional provisions guaranteeing freedom of speech and of the press, have stated the doctrine as it has been expressed in the foregoing decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States.
It was specifically held that the State statute did not abridge the freedom of National citizenship in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
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The defendant in a criminal cause has the right to a speedy public trial, to compel attendance of witnesses in the defendant's behalf, to have the assistance of counsel for the defendant's defense, to be personally present with counsel, and to be confronted with the witnesses against the defendant.
This Constitution shall not be construed by the courts to afford greater rights to criminal defendants than those afforded by the Constitution of the United States, nor shall it be construed to afford greater rights to minors in juvenile proceedings on criminal causes than those afforded by the Constitution of the United States.
All statutes of this State in effect on February 17, 1972, requiring, authorizing, imposing, or relating to the death penalty are in full force and effect, subject to legislative amendment or repeal by statute, initiative, or referendum.
www.leginfo.ca.gov /.const/.article_1   (2708 words)

  
 The U.S. Constitution - National Constitution Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; A quorum for this Purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice.
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 right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
www.constitutioncenter.org /explore/TheU.S.Constitution/index.shtml   (4293 words)

  
 The United States Constitution - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net
Adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the Same shall take Effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill.
Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.
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.
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The United States Supreme Court has the ability to judge (determine) that medical malpractice awards may not be greater than an amount the United States Supreme Court sets because of Article Three of the United States Constitution and Amendment Eight of the United States Constitution.
The United States Supreme Court has the ability to judge (determine) that pharmaceutical liability rewards may not be greater than an amount the United States Supreme Court sets because of Article Three of the United States Constitution and Amendment Eight.
The United States Supreme Court has the ability to judge (determine) that health insurers liability and hospitals liability are not greater than an amount that the United States Supreme Court sets.
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 U.S. CONSTITUTION
Clause 7: The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.
Clause 2: A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime.
On the 25th of May, seven States having convened, George Washington, of Virginia, was unanimously elected President, and the consideration of the proposed constitution was commenced.
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 The Constitution of the United States
No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the third day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
www.harrybrowne.org /articles/Constitution.htm   (3906 words)

  
 United States House of Representatives, 109th Congress, 2nd Session: Educational Links
A list of Early Congressional Documents from the Constitutional Convention and the Continental Congress.
The full text amendments 11 through 27 to the Constitution that have been ratified.
The full text of amendments to the Constitution that have been proposed but not ratified.
www.house.gov /Constitution/Constitution.html   (126 words)

  
 FindLaw: U.S. Constitution: Article III
Constitutional Status of the Court of Claims and the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Cases Arising Under the Constitution, Laws, and Treaties of the United States
Controversies Between a State, Or the Citizens Thereof, and Foreign States, Citizens, or Subjects
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 The History Place - Constitution of the United States
The History Place - Constitution of the United States
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.
Bill of Rights - The First Ten Constitutional Amendments
www.historyplace.com /unitedstates/revolution/us-constitution.htm   (2555 words)

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