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U.S. Constitution at a Glance

America is the land of the free and the home of the brave. A country with unlimited possibilities and opportunities to prosper. Each individual is allowed to follow one's dreams, goals, and ambitions. A place that includes God in our way of living and in our Constitution. We have freedom of speech because of the bravery of our founding Fathers. The Bill of Rights has amendments that help us govern state by state. Our education system is for everyone that hopes for a better future for our families, friends, and loved ones. Let us keep going this direction by continuing this as the legacy for our future generations to come. Everyone is an individual molded by God. Let's take a better look at our God given rights. America is special and needs our respect in remembrance of those that died so that we can govern as sovereign states.

Articles:

I Legislative Branch

II Executive Branch

III Judicial Branch

IV Relationships between the States

V Amending the Constitution

VI Supreme Law

VII Ratification

Amendments

First Ten Amendments

First

1st

Freedoms, Petitions, Assembly

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or the freedom of press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Second

2nd

Individual right to bear arms

A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Third

3rd

Quartering of soldiers

No soldier shall, in time of peace shall be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

Fourth

4th

Searches and seizures

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Fifth

5th

Rights in criminal cas

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, w

Sixth

6th

Right to a fair trial

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense

Seventh

7th

Rights in civil cases

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.

Eighth

8th

Bails, fines, punishment

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Ninth

9th

Rights retained by the People

The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Tenth

10th

States' rights

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.

Bill of Rights

Later Amendments:

Continued 17 Amendments

Bill Of Rights

11-27

(See below)

Amendment 11

11th

Lawsuits against states- establishes judicial limits.

February 7, 1795

Amendment 12

12th

Presidential elections- outlines the process for electing the President and the Vice President.

June 15, 1804

Amendment 13

13th

Abolition of slavery- abolishes slavery.

December 6, 1865

Amendment 14

14th

Civil rights- describes the privileges of citizenship.

July 9, 1868

Amendment 15

15th

Black suffrage- states that the right to vote shall not be denied on the account of race.

February 3, 1870

Amendment 16

16th

Income taxes- gives Congress the right to collect income tax.

February 3, 1913

Amendment 17

17th

Senatorial elections- establishes the election of Senators by popular vote.

April 8, 1913

Amendment 18

18th

Prohibition of liquor- prohibits the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors.

January 16, 1919

Repealed by the 21st on December 5, 1933

Amendment 19

19th

Women's Suffrage- states that the right to vote shall not be denied on the account of sex.

August 18, 1920

Amendment 20

20th

Terms of office- sets the beginning of congressional and presidential terms of office.

January 23, 1933

Amendment 21

21th

Repeal of prohibition- repeals the eighteenth amendment.

December 5, 1933

Amendment 22

22th

Term limits for the presidency- defines presidential term limits.

February 27, 1951

Amendment 23

23rd

Washington, D.C., suffrage- gives presidential voting rights to the District of Columbia.

March 29, 1961

Amendment 24

24th

Abolition of poll taxes- states that the right to vote shall not be denied on the account of any poll tax.

January 23, 1964

Amendment 25

25th

Presidential succession- delineates presidential succession.

February 10, 1967

Amendment 26

26th

18-year-old suffrage- establishes the right to vote at age eighteen years or older.

June 30, 1971

Amendment 27

27th

Congressional pay raises- limits congressional pay increases.

Original on September 25, 1789; Ratified on May 7, 1992

Bill Of Rights

The Preamble to The United Nations Charter

We the People of the United Nations

Determined

to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and

to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and

to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and

to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,

And for these ends

to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbors, and

to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and

to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and

to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples,

Have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims.

accordingly, our respective Governments, through representatives assembled in the city of San Francisco, who have exhibited their full powers found to be in good and due form, have agreed to the present Charter of the United Nations and do hereby establish an international organization to be known as the United Nations.

The Preamble to The Consitution of India

We, The People Of India,

have solemnly resolved to constitute India into a sovereign Democratic Republic and to secure to all its citizens:

Justice,

social, economic, and political;

Liberty,

of thought, expression, belief, faith, and worship;

Equality,

of status and of opportunity, and to promote among them all

Fraternity,

assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity of the Nation;

In our constituent assembly

this twenty-sixth day of November 1949, do hereby adopt, enact and give to ourselves, this Constitution.

We The People of The United States of America

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly, all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

United States Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

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