U.S. Constitution

United States Constitution

With Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 29, 1992.

Constitution of the United States of America
Amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America

Annotations

Preamble

Articles

1. Article I - Legislative Department
2. Article II - Executive Department
3. Article III - Judicial Department
4. Article IV - States' Relations
5. Article V - Mode of Amendment
6. Article VI - Prior Debts, National Supremacy, and Oaths of Office
7. Article VII - Ratification

Amendments

1. First Amendment - Religion and Expression
2. Second Amendment - Bearing Arms
3. Third Amendment - Quartering Soldiers
4. Fourth Amendment - Search and Seizure
5. Fifth Amendment - Rights of Persons
6. Sixth Amendment - Rights of Accused in Criminal Prosecutions
7. Seventh Amendment - Civil Trials
8. Eighth Amendment - Further Guarantees in Criminal Cases
9. Ninth Amendment - Unenumerated Rights
10. Tenth Amendment - Reserved Powers
11. Eleventh Amendment - Suits Against States
12. Twelfth Amendment - Election of President
13. Thirteenth Amendment - Slavery And Involuntary Servitude
14. Fourteenth Amendment - Rights Guaranteed Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process and Equal Protection
15. Fifteenth Amendment - Right of Citizens to Vote
16. Sixteenth Amendment - Income Tax
17. Seventeenth Amendment - Popular Election of Senators
18. Eighteenth Amendment - Prohibition of Intoxicating Liquors
19. Nineteenth Amendment - Women's Suffrage Rights
20. Twentieth Amendment - Commencement of the Terms of the President, Vice President, and Members of Congress, Etc.
21. Twenty-First Amendment - Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment
22. Twenty-Second Amendment - Presidential Tenure
23. Twenty-Third Amendment - Presidential Electors for the District of Columbia
24. Twenty-Fourth Amendment - Abolition of the Poll Tax Qualification in Federal Elections
25. Twenty-Fifth Amendment - Presidential Vacancy, Disability, and Inability
26. Twenty-Sixth Amendment - Reduction of Voting Age Qualification
27. Twenty-Seventh Amendment - Congressional Pay Limitation

The Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress prepared this document, The Constitution of the United States of America: Analyis and Interpretation. Johnny H. Killian and George A. Costello were the co-editors of the 1992 Edition. Johnny H. Killian, George A. Costello and Kenneth R. Thomas were editors of the 1996 and 1998 Supplements.

FindLaw has divided the document up into smaller sections for the Web and added hyperlinks between the sections, as well as links to Supreme court cases cited in the annotations. FindLaw also incorporated the 1996 and 1998 Supplements into the 1992 Edition text.