[The Constitution of the United States of America:  Analysis, and Interpretation - 1992 Edition ]
[Historical Note on Formation of the Constitution ]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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                                CONTENTS

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(For contents in detail, see separate table of contents at beginning of 
                       each Article and Amendment)

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        Public Law 91-589.........................................     v
        Introduction to the 1992 edition..........................    ix
        Historical note on formation of the Constitution..........    xv
        Text of the Constitution (literal print)..................     1
        Text of the amendments (literal print)....................    23
        Proposed amendments not ratified by the States............    45
        The Constitution with Annotations.........................    51
        Preamble..................................................    53
        Article I. Legislative Department.........................    55
        Article II. Executive Department..........................   409
        Article III. Judicial Department..........................   593
        Article IV. States' relations.............................   829
        Article V. Mode of amendment..............................   895
        Article VI. Prior debts, national supremacy, oaths of 
         office...................................................   915
        Article VII. Ratification.................................   949
        Amendments to the Constitution............................   951
        First Amendment--Religion and expression..................   965
        Second Amendment--Bearing arms............................  1193
        Third Amendment--Quartering soldiers......................  1195
        Fourth Amendment--Search and seizure......................  1197
        Fifth Amendment--Rights of persons........................  1271
        Sixth Amendment--Rights of accused in criminal 
         prosecutions.............................................  1397
        Seventh Amendment--Civil trials...........................  1449
        Eighth Amendment--Further guarantees in criminal cases....  1465
        Ninth Amendment--Unenumerated rights......................  1501
        Tenth Amendment--Reserved powers..........................  1507
        Eleventh Amendment--Suits against States..................  1519
        Twelfth Amendment--Election of President..................  1547
        Thirteenth Amendment--Slavery and involuntary servitude...  1549
        Fourteenth Amendment--Rights guaranteed: Privileges and 
         immunities of citizenship, due process, and equal 
         protection...............................................  1559
        Fifteenth Amendment--Rights of citizens to vote...........  1937
        Sixteenth Amendment--Income tax...........................  1951
        Seventeenth Amendment--Popular election of Senators.......  1965
        Eighteenth Amendment--Prohibition of intoxicating liquors.  1967
        Nineteenth Amendment--Women's suffrage rights.............  1971
        Twentieth Amendment--Terms of President, Vice President, 
         Members of Congress: Presidential vacancy................  1973
        Twenty-first Amendment--Repeal of eighteenth amendment....  1977
        Twenty-second Amendment--Presidential tenure..............  1985
        Twenty-third Amendment--Presidential electors for the 
         District of Columbia.....................................  1987
        Twenty-fourth Amendment--Abolition of the poll tax 
         qualification in Federal elections.......................  1989
        Twenty-fifth Amendment--Presidential vacancy, disability, 
         and inability............................................  1991
        Twenty-sixth Amendment--Reduction of voting age 
         qualification............................................  1995
        Twenty-seventh Amendment--Congressional Pay Limitation....  1997
        Acts of Congress held unconstitutional in whole or in part 
         by the Supreme Court of the United States................  1999

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        State constitutional and statutory provisions and 
         municipal ordinances held unconstitutional on their face
         or as administered.......................................  2033
        Supreme Court decisions overruled by subsequent decision..  2243
        Table of cases............................................  2257
        Index.....................................................  2407