United States Constitution

Examples of United States Constitution in the following topics:

• The 21st Amendment

  • The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920.
  • The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
  • The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.
  • This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
  • Joint Resolution Proposing the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution.

• The 16th Amendment

  • The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results.
  • The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
  • State the source of revenue made constitutional by the 16th Amendment

• The 19th Amendment

  • The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex.
  • The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

• The 11th Amendment

  • The Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution deals with each state's sovereign immunity.
  • The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.
  • State the prohibition granted and protection afforded by the 11th Amendment

• Article VII

  • Article Seven of the United States Constitution provides how many state ratifications were necessary in order for the Constitution to take effect and how a state could ratify it.
  • The ratification of the conventions of nine states, shall be sufficient for the establishment of this Constitution between the states so ratifying the same.

• Article VI

  • Article Six of the United States Constitution establishes the Constitution and the laws and treaties of the United States made in accordance with it as the supreme law of the land.
  • All debts contracted and engagements entered into, before the adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
  • This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
  • The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.

• Interstate Relations

  • Article Four of the United States Constitution outlines the relationship between the states, with Congress having power to admit new states.
  • In the United States, states are guaranteed military and civil defense by the federal government.
  • The United States Constitution uniformly refers to all of these sub-national jurisdictions as States .
  • Under Article Four of the United States Constitution, which outlines the relationship between the states, the United States Congress has the power to admit new states to the Union.
  • Americans live in a federal system of 50 states that, together, make up the United Sates of America.

• Article V

  • Article Five of the United States Constitution describes the process whereby the Constitution may be altered; altering the Constitution consists of proposing an amendment or amendments and subsequent ratification.
  • The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.

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• The State Constitutions

  • In the United States, each state has its own constitution.
  • Both the federal and state constitutions are organic texts: they are the fundamental blueprints for the legal and political organizations of the United States and the individual states that comprise the Union, respectively.
  • The Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, provides that "[t]he 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 Guarantee Clause of Article 4 of the Constitution states that "[t]he United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government. " These two provisions give states the wide latitude to adopt a constitution, the fundamental documents of state law.
  • The organized territories of the United States also have constitutions of their own if they have an organized government through an Organic Act passed by the federal Congress.
  • The United States Virgin Islands, an unincorporated organized territory, does not have its own constitution; instead it operates under various federal statutes.