THE LAW OF CITIZENSHIP
163. “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject
to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States, and
of the State wherein they reside.”[453] The phrase “subject to the
jurisdiction thereof” excludes “children of ministers, consuls,
and citizens or subjects of foreign states born within the United
States.”[454] The supreme law clearly recognizes and establishes a
distinction between United States citizenship and State citizenship.
To be a citizen of a State, a person must reside within that State,
but to be a citizen of the United States, it is necessary only that he
or she be born or naturalized within the jurisdiction of the United
States. Thus American citizenship, like the operation of American
constitutional law in all its aspects, is a matter of jurisdiction, or
sovereignty.
In America there are two citizenships, distinct from each other,
and depending upon different characteristics and circumstances, and
the essential difference is caused by a difference of jurisdiction.
In strict conformity to this distinction, the Constitution prohibits
a State from making or enforcing “any law which shall abridge the
privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.”[455] The
limitation is not as to laws affecting the privileges and immunities
of citizens of the several States; equality of citizens of States is
secured by another provision.[456]
The privileges and immunities of the citizen of one State removing
to another State are the same, no more, no less, than the privileges
and immunities of the citizens of the State into which he or she
removed.[457] The privileges and immunities of citizens of the
several States rest for security and protection with the States
themselves,—where they rested before the Constitution was made. These
privileges and immunities are not placed under the care of the United
States except so far as the Constitution declares that, “The citizens
of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of
citizens in the several States.” These privileges and immunities of
citizens of the several States are _fundamental_,[458] and are commonly
set forth in Bills of Rights found in the State constitutions. The
sole purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment is to declare to the several
States that
whatever those rights,—as you grant or establish them to your own
citizens, or as you limit, or qualify, or impose restrictions on
their exercise, the same, neither more nor less, shall be the
measure of the rights of citizens of other States within your
jurisdiction.[459]
164. What then are the privileges and immunities of citizens of the
United States? They are the privileges and immunities secured to them
by the Constitution. Among them are
to come to the seat of government to assert any claim he may have
upon that government; to transact any business he may have with it;
to share its offices; to engage in administering its functions; the
right of free access to its seaports, through which all operations
of foreign commerce are conducted; to the subtreasuries, land
offices, and courts of justice in the several States[460]; “to
demand the care and protection of the federal government over
his life, liberty, and property when on the high seas, or within
the jurisdiction of a foreign government; to peaceably assemble
and petition for redress of grievances; the privilege of _habeas
corpus_; to use the navigable waters of the United States however
they may penetrate the territory of the several States; all rights
secured to (American) citizens by treaties with foreign nations”;
the right, on his own volition to become a citizen of any State of
the United States by a _bona fide_ residence therein, with the same
rights as other citizens of that State.[461]
Thus it appears that the rights of a citizen—his “privileges and
immunities”—are measurable by the jurisdiction of the sovereignty to
which he owes allegiance. Between allegiance and protection as between
citizenship and sovereignty there is a reciprocal relation.
165. The Fourteenth Amendment did not add to the privileges and
immunities of a citizen.[462] It simply furnished an additional
guaranty to the protection of such as he already had. It did not add
the right of suffrage to these privileges and immunities as they
existed at the time of the adoption of the Constitution. The United
States guarantees to every State in the Union a republican form of
government,[463] but this is not a guarantee to any citizen of the
right to vote, nor does the Constitution confer that right on any
person.[464] That right (or privilege, as it is in strict contemplation
of law) was not the same among the original States, the qualifications
for voting differing widely among them, and also in the same State at
different times.[465] When the Constitution confers citizenship it does
not confer the right to vote.
There is, however, a right to vote possessed by certain citizens
of the United States, namely they who vote for members of Congress
and Senators of the United States, and (by implication) electors of
President and Vice-President. The Constitution defines electors of
Congressmen and Senators as the same persons who are entitled in the
several States to vote for the most numerous branch of the State
Legislature.[466] The United States thus
adopts the qualification thus furnished as the qualification of its
own electors of Congress. It is not true, therefore, that electors
for members of Congress owe their right to vote to the State law in
any sense which makes the exercise of the right depend exclusively
on the law of the State.[467]
The United States has sovereign power to prescribe electoral
qualifications for its own citizens; it has chosen to adopt State
qualifications. The non-exercise of the power does not work denial
of its existence. The principle involved is one of sovereignty, that
non-user of a sovereign right cannot invalidate the right.
166. While the Fourteenth Amendment added nothing to the rights and
privileges of citizens, for “the equality of the rights of citizens is
a principle of republicanism,”[468] it guaranteed those rights; but
“the power of the national government is limited to the enforcement
of the guaranty.”[469] The Amendment does not invest Congress with
power to legislate upon subjects which are within the domain of State
legislation; but to provide modes of relief against State legislation,
or State action “which impairs the privileges and immunities of
citizens of the United States, or which injures them in life, liberty,
or property without due process of law, or which denies to them the
equal protection of the laws.”[470] Congress is empowered by the
Amendment “to adopt appropriate legislation for correcting the effects
of such prohibited State laws and State acts, and thus to render them
effectually null, void, and innocuous.”[471]
The essential matter here involved is sovereignty.
The true doctrine is, that whilst the States are really
sovereign as to all matters which have not been granted to the
jurisdiction and control of the United States, the Constitution
and constitutional laws of the latter are the supreme law of the
land; and when they conflict with the laws of the States, they are
of paramount authority and obligation. This is the fundamental
principle on which the authority of the Constitution is based; and
unless it be conceded in practice, as well as theory, the fabric of
our institutions, as it was contemplated by its founders, cannot
stand. The questions involved have respect not more to the autonomy
and existence of the States, than to the continued existence of the
United States as a government to which every American citizen may
look for security and protection in every part of the land.[472]
Thus, in application of this principle, the law of a State
discriminating against persons of color by eliminating them to serve
as jurors is unconstitutional.[473] So too is an act of Congress
unconstitutional, that operates as, or creates, a municipal law for the
regulation of private rights, and that places Congress in the stead,
or office of the State legislatures, so that the federal Legislature,
instead of enacting laws corrective of prohibited State laws, or
counteracting such laws, assumes the office of the State legislatures
in their general legislation. Such Congressional legislation “steps
into the domain of local jurisprudence.”[474]
167. Such unconstitutional legislation by Congress was the Civil Rights
Bill of 1866, which declared that all persons within the jurisdiction
of the United States should be entitled
to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages,
facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or
water, theaters, and other places of public amusement; subject
only to the conditions and limitations established by law, and
applicable to citizens of every race and color, regardless of any
previous condition of servitude.[475]
Here again the essential matter is one of jurisdiction, or sovereignty.
The several States have jurisdiction over the matters comprised
within the so-called Civil Rights Bill. Inn-keepers, public carriers,
owners or managers of theaters and public halls are bound, to the
extent of their facilities, to furnish proper accommodations to all
unobjectionable persons who in good faith apply for them. No race
or class is a special favorite of the laws, and the enjoyment of
accommodations in inns, public conveyances, and places of amusement,
is not a “privilege or immunity” of a citizen, in the sense that he or
she possesses a civil or legal right to such enjoyment. The act, or
decision, of a mere individual,—the owner of an inn, or of a public
conveyance, or place of amusement, refusing such accommodation, is not
the imposition of a badge of slavery or involuntary servitude upon the
applicant; neither does such act or decision inflict a civil injury,
unless the law of the State makes such act or decision an injury.[476]
The principle here involved is illustrated by a law of California, held
to be constitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States, that
“due process of law” is not denied to a person who, in that State, by
its law, was “prosecuted by information,” and (as was claimed) was
“tried and illegally found guilty of (murder) without any presentment
or indictment of any grand or other jury.”[477]
The Court sustained the State law as securing due process of law in
principle,—that “prosecution by information” instead of “indictment of
a jury” is not a violation of the principle but merely a variation of
the form of due process of law.[478] In other words, the California law
in no way disparaged or abridged the privileges or immunities of the
citizen.[479]
168. The principle regulating the definition of United States
citizenship is that principle of the common law which recognizes “the
ancient rule of citizenship by birth within the dominion.”[480]
Naturalization is an artificial birth made possible by the will of
sovereignty. It is effected by the operation of law,—and in America,
by operation of statutory law only. Congress has not the exclusive
power to pass naturalization laws, but it has the exclusive power “to
establish a _uniform_ rule of naturalization.”[481] The power exercised
here is suggested in the word “uniform.”[482] Congress has seen fit
to vest the exercise of this power in certain courts of law. Strictly
speaking, the exercise of the function, in any of its aspects, is not
essentially judicial. Courts of law have no functions, can exercise
no functions, and no functions can be imposed upon them except those
of a judicial nature.[483] If the courts are willing to exercise a
ministerial function and are empowered to exercise it by Congress, as
in the naturalization of aliens, that exercise cannot be questioned as
being unconstitutional.
169. The test here is jurisdiction. A person may by voluntary
expatriation become allegiant to another jurisdiction or sovereignty,
but he cannot escape allegiance to some one jurisdiction. He must
be citizen or subject of a sovereignty. As all property capable of
ownership must have an owner, so must every person be citizen or
subject of some sovereignty. A vessel, wherever it may be, is part
of the territory of the country to which it belongs.[484] By parity
of reasoning a person is deemed allegiant to some jurisdiction or
sovereignty. A vessel owning no jurisdiction is a pirate.
170. The Fifteenth Amendment declares that 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 race, color, or previous condition
of servitude. This Amendment
does not take away from the State governments in a general sense
the power over suffrage which has belonged to those governments
from the beginning, and without the provision of which power
the whole fabric upon which the division of State and national
authority under the Constitution and the organization of both
governments rest would be without support and both the authority
of the nation and of the State would fall to the ground. In fact,
the very command of the Amendment recognizes the possession of the
general power by the States since the Amendment seeks to regulate
its exercise as to the particular subject with which it deals.[485]
The Amendment does not change, modify, or deprive the States of
their full power as to suffrage, except of course as to the subject
with which the Amendment deals, and to the extent that obedience
to its command is necessary. Thus the authority over the suffrage
which the States possess, and the limitations which the Amendment
imposes, are co-ordinate, and one may not destroy the other without
bringing about the destruction of both.[486]
But while the Amendment “gives no right of suffrage”
... the result might arise that as a consequence of the striking
down of a discriminating clause, a right of suffrage would be
enjoyed by reason of the generic character of the provision which
would remain after the discrimination was stricken out.[487]
171. Both the States and the United States are forbidden by the
Constitution to enact _ex post facto_ laws. The prohibition affects
every citizen as securing him from the peril of legislation of the
kind forbidden. It is a sweeping limitation of power for his or her
benefit, and operates for all citizens of whatever age, condition,
or circumstance. An _ex post facto_ law is one that makes an action
done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done,
criminal, and punishes that action; that aggravates a crime, or makes
it greater than it was when committed; that changes the punishment
and inflicts a greater punishment than the law annexed to the crime
when committed; that alters the legal rules of evidence, and receives
less or different testimony than the law required, at the time of
the commission of the offense, in order to convict the offender.
But no law is _ex post facto_ within the constitutional prohibition
that “mollifies the rigor of the criminal law.” Only those laws are
_ex post facto_ which “create, or aggravate the crime, or increase
the punishment, or change the rules of evidence, for the purpose of
conviction.”[488]
172. But he who, under State law, voluntarily waived his right of trial
by jury and elected to be tried by the court and by it was adjudged
guilty and was condemned to be hanged, was not deprived of any right,
privilege, or immunity for his protection by the Fourteenth Amendment,
but was tried and condemned in strict accordance with the forms
prescribed by the constitution and laws of the State, and with special
regard to the rights of accused persons under its jurisdiction.[489] A
person may waive a fundamental right[490] but neither the State nor the
United States can lawfully invade the indefeasible right of a person
to personal security[491]; such invasion constitutes an “unwarrantable
search and seizure.” The service of a lawful warrant operates
practically as a waiver of right by the person searched or seized; but
were a person to waive his right, say of trial by jury, such waiver
would not confer power on any court or jury to try him. “Consent can
never confer jurisdiction.”[492]
173. Am act of Congress that no person shall be excused from attending
and testifying, or from producing books, papers, tariffs, contracts,
agreements, and documents before the Interstate Commerce Commission,
or in obedience to its subpœna, on the ground that he might thus be
compelled to be a witness against himself and so become subject to
penalty is constitutional because its additional provision immuning
him from future prosecution by reason of his evidence thus given
sufficiently satisfies the constitutional guarantee of protection.[493]
So too the stenographic report of testimony given in court, supported
by the oath of the stenographer that it is a correct transcript of
his notes and of the testimony of a deceased witness is competent
evidence, is admissible, and does not conflict with the provision of
the Constitution that an accused person shall have the right “to be
confronted with the witnesses against him.”[494] The principle here is
essentially one of sovereignty,—the court declaring: “the rights of
the public shall not be wholly sacrificed in order that an incidental
benefit may be preserved to the accused.”[495] The sovereign right
of a State, or of the United States with respect to citizenship, is
sufficient, in either, to effect the purposes for which either exists;
but in the American dual system of government, citizenship has
fundamental rights, which are guaranteed, and political privileges,
which are conferred and protected.
174. Civil rights and their guarantees, both in the States and in
the United States, are formulated as limitations on government,—as
fundamentals reserved “and above any constitutional sanction.” These
rights include those of religious liberty, personal security, security
of dwellings, papers, and property, personal freedom, due process
of law, jury trial, and equal protection of the laws. The line of
demarcation between these fundamental rights is not easily drawn, nor
even drawn with precision. These rights, being fundamental rights,
exist independent of the government which the people of a State, or the
people of the United States ordain and establish. That sovereignty—the
people themselves—has power to alter, to modify, or even to destroy
these rights, or any of them, must be admitted, but that sovereignty
ever, under a republican form of government, will alter, modify, or
destroy these rights, may with equal assurance be denied.
175. The political privileges of citizenship rest on a different
conception of government. Political privileges—of which the most
important are the right to vote and the right to be voted for, and to
execute an office because of election to office—are not fundamental,
that is, they are not civil rights. The State, or the United
States, has the right to prescribe qualifications for an elector,
or for candidacy for any office. Usually these qualifications are
of age, residence, sex, and tax-paying,—the people of the United
States having also declared that 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 race, color, or previous condition
of servitude. This inhibition does not make the fact of race, or
color, or previous condition of servitude a fundamental civil right
guaranteed by the United States under the Constitution. In no sense
does the Fourteenth Amendment confuse civil and political rights. No
person can vote unless he or she has complied with the requirements
(qualifications) for voting, prescribed by the State in which he or
she resides. No person acquires civil rights by a similar compliance.
By birth or naturalization (and naturalization is a sort of legal
birth by the will of the sovereign), a person possesses civil rights,
but no person possesses the privilege of voting either by birth or by
naturalization. The privilege of voting may be lost by removing from a
polling district; by neglect to register; by neglect to pay a tax,—in
brief, by failure to comply with any electoral law of the State; but
no person forfeits his or her civil rights by mere neglect. Infants,
minors, adults, men, women, and children possess equal civil rights.
Impairment, suspension, forfeiture of civil rights is effected only
by commission of crime, that is, by a voluntary act, inimical to
sovereignty itself. Such an act also cuts off the privilege of voting,
or of being voted for with effect of induction into office, because
the person who imperils sovereignty by commission of a crime would,
in all probability, imperil sovereignty by voting. The exercise of
the suffrage has long continued in America, and, both in laws and in
constitutions, is commonly referred to as a “right.” The tendency of
privileges is to become rights. In America, however, the republican
form of government exists both in the States and in the United States.
Practically, civil rights and political privileges are determined by
the will of the people.
Appendix
THE
CONSTITUTION
OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(COMPARED WITH THE ORIGINAL IN THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE)
WE THE PEOPLE[496] 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.
ARTICLE I.
SECTION 1.
1. All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress
of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of
Representatives.
SECTION 2.
1. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen
every second Year by the People of the several States, and the
Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for
Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
2. No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to
the Age of twenty-five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the
United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of
that State in which he shall be chosen.
3.[497]Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among
the several States which may be included within this Union, according
to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to
the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service
for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of
all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three
Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States,
and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they
shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed
one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one
Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of
New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight,
Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New York
six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six,
Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia
three.
4. When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the
Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such
Vacancies.
5. The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other
Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
SECTION 3.
1.[498]The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two
Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six
Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote.
2. Immediately after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the
first Election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three
Classes. The Seats of the Senators of the first Class shall be vacated
at the Expiration of the second Year, of the second Class at the
Expiration of the fourth Year, and of the third Class at the Expiration
of the sixth Year; so that one third may be chosen every second Year;
and if Vacancies happen by Resignation or otherwise, during the Recess
of the Legislature of any State, the Executive thereof may make
temporary Appointments until the next Meeting of the Legislature, which
shall then fill such Vacancies.
3. No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age
of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States,
and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for
which he shall be chosen.
4. The Vice-President of the United States shall be President of the
Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.
5. The Senate shall chuse their other Officers, and also a President
pro tempore in the Absence of the Vice-President, or when he shall
exercise the Office of President of the United States.
6. The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When
sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When
the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall
preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of
two thirds of the Members present.
7. Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to
removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office
of honor, Trust, or Profit under the United States: but the Party
convicted shall, nevertheless, be liable and subject to Indictment,
Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.
SECTION 4.
1. The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and
Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature
thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such
Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.
2. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and such
Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by
Law appoint a different Day.
SECTION 5.
1. Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and
Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall
constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller Number may adjourn
from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of
absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House
may provide.
2. Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its
Members for disorderly Behavior, and, with the Concurrence of two
thirds, expel a Member.
3. Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to
time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment
require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House
on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be
entered on the Journal.
4. Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the
Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any
other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.
SECTION 6.
1. The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for
their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury
of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony
and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their
Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to
and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either
House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.
2. No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was
elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the
United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof
shall have been increased during such time; and no Person holding any
Office under the United States, shall be a member of either House
during his Continuance in Office.
SECTION 7.
1. All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of
Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments
as on other Bills.
2. Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives
and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the
President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if
not he shall return it, with his Objections, to that House in which it
shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their
Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration
two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be
sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it
shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that
House it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both
Houses shall be determined by Yeas and Nays, and the Names of the
Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal
of each House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned by the
President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been
presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had
signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return,
in which Case it shall not be a Law.
3. Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the Concurrence of the
Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a
question of 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.
SECTION 8.
1. The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties,
Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common
Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties,
Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
2. To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
3. To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several
States, and with the Indian Tribes;
4. To establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on
the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
5. To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and
fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
6. To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and
current Coin of the United States;
7. To establish Post-Offices and Post Roads;
8. To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for
limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their
respective Writings and Discoveries;
9. To constitute Tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
10. To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high
Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
11. To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make
Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
12. To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that
Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
13. To provide and maintain a Navy;
14. To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and
naval Forces;
15. To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of
the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
16. To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia,
and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service
of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the
Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia
according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
17. To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over
such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of
particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of
the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority
over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the
State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines,
Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;—And
18. To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying
into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by
this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any
Department or Officer thereof.
SECTION 9.
1. The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States
now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by
the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight,
but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten
dollars for each Person.
2. The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended,
unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may
require it.
3. No Bill of Attainder, or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
4. No Capitation or other direct Tax shall be laid, unless in
Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be
taken.
5. No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.
6. No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or
Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another: nor shall
Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or
pay Duties, in another.
7. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of
Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the
Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from
time to time.
8. No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no
Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without
the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office,
or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
SECTION 10.
1. No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation;
grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit;
make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts;
pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the
Obligation of Contracts, or grant any title of Nobility.
2. No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any
Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely
necessary for executing it’s inspection Laws; and the net Produce of
all Duties and 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.
3. No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of
Tonnage, keep Troops or Ships of War, in time of Peace, enter into any
Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or
Engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as
will not admit of delay.
ARTICLE II.
SECTION 1.
1. The Executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United
States of America. He shall hold his office during the Term of four
Years, and, together with the Vice-President, chosen for the same Term,
be elected as follows:
2. Each State shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof
may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators
and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress:
but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust
or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
3.[499]The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by
Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant
of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a List of all
the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which
List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of
the Government of the United States, directed to the President of
the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of
the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates,
and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest
number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority
of the whole Number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than
one who have such a Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then
the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse, by Ballot one of
them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the
five highest on the List, the said House shall in like manner chuse the
President. 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. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the
Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the
Vice-President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal
Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice-President.
4. The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the
day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same
throughout the United States.
5. No Person except a natural-born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United
States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be
eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be
eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of
thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United
States.
6. In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his
Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties
of the said Office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice-President,
and the Congress may by Law provide for the Case of Removal, Death,
Resignation, or Inability both of the President and Vice-President
declaring what Officer shall then act as President, and such Officer
shall act accordingly, until the disability be removed, or a President
shall be elected.
7. The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a
Compensation, which shall neither be Increased 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.
8. Before he enter on the Execution of his Office he shall take the
following Oath or Affirmation:—“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I
will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States,
and will, to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect, and defend the
Constitution of the United States.”
SECTION 2.
1. The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of
the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when
called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require
the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the
Executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of
their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves
and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of
Impeachment.
2. He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the
Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present
concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent
of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other Public Ministers, and
Consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court, and all other Officers of the
United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided
for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law
vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper,
in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of
Departments.
3. The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may
happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which
shall expire at the End of the next Session.
SECTION 3.
1. He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the
State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures
as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary
Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of
Disagreement between them, with Respect to the time of Adjournment,
he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall
receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that
the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall commission all the Officers
of the United States.
SECTION 4.
1. The President, Vice-President, and all civil Officers of the United
States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction
of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
ARTICLE III.
SECTION 1.
1. The judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one
Supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may, from
time to time, ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme
and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior,
and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services a Compensation,
which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.
SECTION 2.
1.[500]The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity,
arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and
Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;—to all
Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;—to
all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction; to Controversies to
which the United States shall be a Party;—to Controversies between two
or more States;—between a State and Citizens of another State;—between
Citizens of different States,—between Citizens of the same State
claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State,
or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens, or Subjects.
2. In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and
Consuls, and those in which a State shall be a Party, the Supreme
Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before
mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as
to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such regulations as
the Congress shall make.
3. The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by
Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes
shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the
Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have
directed.
SECTION 3.
1. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying
War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid
and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the
Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in
open Court.
2. The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason,
but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or
Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attained.
ARTICLE IV.
SECTION 1.
1. Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public
Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the
Congress may by general Laws prescribe the manner in which such Acts,
Records, and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.
SECTION 2.
1. The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and
Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
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.
3.[501]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.
SECTION 3.
1. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no
new State shall be formed or erected within the 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.
2. The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful
Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property
belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall
be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of
any particular State.
SECTION 4.
1. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a
Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against
Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive
(when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
ARTICLE V.
1. 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.
ARTICLE VI.
1. 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.
2. 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,
any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary
notwithstanding.
3. 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.
ARTICLE VII.
1. The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be
sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the
States so ratifying the same.
Done in Convention by the
Unanimous Consent of the[502]
States present the Seventeenth
Day of September in the Year
of our Lord one thousand seven
hundred and Eighty seven and of
the Independence of the United
States of America the Twelfth
_In Witness_ whereof We have
hereunto subscribed our Names,
Go: WASHINGTON—_Presidt. and
deputy from Virginia._
Attest William Jackson Secretary.
[Note by Department of State: The interlined and rewritten words
mentioned in the above explanation, are in this edition, printed in
their proper places in the text.]
_New Hampshire_:
John Langdon
Nicholas Gilman
_Massachusetts_:
Nathaniel Gorham
Rufus King
_Connecticut_:
Wm: Saml. Johnson
Roger Sherman
_New York_:
Alexander Hamilton
_New Jersey_:
Wil: Livingston
David Brearley
Wm. Paterson
Jona: Dayton
_Pennsylvania_:
B Franklin
Thomas Mifflin
Robt. Morris
Geo. Clymer
Thos. Fitz Simons
Jared Ingersoll
James Wilson
Gouv Morris
_Delaware_:
Geo: Read
Gunning Bedford jun
John Dickinson
Richard Bassett
Jaco: Broom
_Maryland_:
James McHenry
Dan of St. Thos. Jenifer
Danl Carroll
_Virginia_:
John Blair—
James Madison Jr.
_North Carolina_:
Wm: Blount
Richd. Dobbs Spaight
Hu Williamson
_South Carolina_:
J. Rutledge
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Charles Pinckney
Pierce Butler
_Georgia_:
William Few
Abr Baldwin
[_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 Constitution._]
(ARTICLE 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 II.)
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.
(ARTICLE III.)
No Soldier shall, in time of peace, 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.
(ARTICLE IV.)
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.
(ARTICLE V.)
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 subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life
or limb; nor shall 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,
without just compensation.
(ARTICLE VI.)
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
defence.
(ARTICLE VII.)
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.
(ARTICLE VIII.)
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor
cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
(ARTICLE IX.)
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be
construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
(ARTICLE 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.
(ARTICLE XI.)
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.
(ARTICLE XII.)
SECTION 1.
The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by ballot
for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not
be an inhabitant of the same State with themselves; they shall name
in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct
ballots the person voted for as Vice-President; and they shall make
distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all
persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for
each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to
the seat of government of the United States, directed to the President
of the Senate;—the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of
the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and
the votes shall then be counted;—The person having the greatest number
of votes for President shall be the President, if such number be a
majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person
have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers
not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the
House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the
President. But in choosing 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. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a
President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before
the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall
act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional
disability of the President. The person having the greatest number of
votes as Vice-President shall be the Vice-President, if such number
be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no
person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the
list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the
purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of Senators,
a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no
person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be
eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
(ARTICLE XIII.)
SECTION 1.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for
crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist
within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
SECTION 2.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate
legislation.
(ARTICLE XIV.)
SECTION 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to
the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the
State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which
shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United
States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or
property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within
its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
SECTION 2.
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according
to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons
in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to
vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and
Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress,
the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of
the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of
such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United
States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion,
or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in
the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the
whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
SECTION 3.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector
of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military,
under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously
taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United
States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an executive
or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the
United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against
the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress
may by a vote of two thirds of each House, remove such disability.
SECTION 4.
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by
law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties
for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be
questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or
pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion
against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation
of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held
illegal and void.
SECTION 5.
The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation,
the provisions of this article.
(ARTICLE XV.)
SECTION 1.
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 race,
color, or previous condition of servitude.
SECTION 2.
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate
legislation.
(ARTICLE XVI.)
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.
(ARTICLE XVII.)
SECTION 1.
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from
each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each
Senator shall have one vote. The Electors in each state shall have the
qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous branch of
the State Legislature.
SECTION 2.
When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate,
the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to
fill such vacancies: Provided, That the Legislature of any State may
empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the
people fill the vacancies by election as the Legislature may direct.
SECTION 3.
This amendment shall not be construed as to affect the election or
term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the
Constitution.
RATIFICATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION.
The Constitution was adopted by a Convention of the States September
17, 1787, and was subsequently ratified by the several States, in the
following order, viz.:
Delaware, December 7, 1787.
Pennsylvania, December 12, 1787.
New Jersey, December 18, 1787.
Georgia, January 2, 1788.
Connecticut, January 9, 1788.
Massachusetts, February 6, 1788.
Maryland, April 28, 1788.
South Carolina, May 23, 1788.
New Hampshire, June 21, 1788.
Virginia, June 26, 1788.
New York, July 26, 1788.
North Carolina, November 21, 1789.
Rhode Island, May 29, 1790.
The State of Vermont, by convention, ratified the Constitution on the
10th of January, 1791, and was, by an act of Congress of the 18th of
February, 1791, “received and admitted into this Union as a new and
entire member of the United States of America.”
RATIFICATIONS OF THE AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.
The first ten articles of amendment (with two others which were not
ratified by the requisite number of States) were submitted to the
several State Legislatures by a resolution of Congress which passed
on the 25th of September, 1789, at the first session of the First
Congress, and were ratified by the Legislatures of the following States:
New Jersey, November 20, 1789.
Maryland, December 19, 1789.
North Carolina, December 22, 1789.
South Carolina, January 19, 1790.
New Hampshire, January 25, 1790.
Delaware, January 28, 1790.
Pennsylvania, March 10, 1790.
New York, March 27, 1790.
Rhode Island, June 15, 1790.
Vermont, November 3, 1791.
Virginia, December 15, 1791.
The acts of the Legislatures of the States ratifying these amendments
were transmitted by the governors to the President, and by him
communicated to Congress. The Legislatures of Massachusetts,
Connecticut, and Georgia, do not appear by the record to have ratified
them.
The eleventh article was submitted to the Legislatures of the several
States by a resolution of Congress passed on the 5th of March, 1794,
at the first session of the Third Congress; and on the 8th of January,
1798, at the second session of the Fifth Congress, it was declared by
the President, in a message to the two Houses of Congress, to have been
adopted by the Legislatures of three fourths of the States, there being
at that time sixteen States in the Union.
The twelfth article was submitted to the Legislatures of the several
States, there being then seventeen States, by a resolution of Congress
passed on the 12th of December, 1803, at the first session of the
Eighth Congress; and was ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths
of the States, in 1804, according to a proclamation of the Secretary of
State dated the 25th of September, 1804.
The thirteenth article was submitted to the Legislatures of the several
States, there being then thirty-six States, by a resolution of Congress
passed on the 1st of February, 1865, at the second session of the
Thirty-eighth Congress, and was ratified, according to a proclamation
of the Secretary of State dated December 18, 1865, by the Legislatures
of the following States:
Illinois, February 1, 1865.
Rhode Island, February 2, 1865.
Michigan, February 2, 1865.
Maryland, February 3, 1865.
New York, February 3, 1865.
West Virginia, February 3, 1865.
Maine, February 7, 1865.
Kansas, February 7, 1865.
Massachusetts, February 8, 1865.
Pennsylvania, February 8, 1865.
Virginia, February 9, 1865.
Ohio, February 10, 1865.
Missouri, February 10, 1865.
Indiana, February 16, 1865.
Nevada, February 16, 1865.
Louisiana, February 17, 1865.
Minnesota, February 23, 1865.
Wisconsin, March 1, 1865.
Vermont, March 9, 1865.
Tennessee, April 7, 1865.
Arkansas, April 20, 1865.
Connecticut, May 5, 1865.
New Hampshire, July 1, 1865.
South Carolina, November 13, 1865.
Alabama, December 2, 1865.
North Carolina, December 4, 1865.
Georgia, December 9, 1865.
The following States not enumerated in the proclamation of the
Secretary of State also ratified this amendment:
Oregon, December 11, 1865.
California, December 20, 1865.
Florida, December 28, 1865.
New Jersey, January 23, 1866.
Iowa, January 24, 1866.
Texas, February 18, 1870.
The fourteenth article was submitted to the Legislatures of the several
States, there being then thirty-seven States, by a resolution of
Congress passed on the 16th of June, 1866, at the first session of the
Thirty-ninth Congress; and was ratified, according to proclamation of
the Secretary of State dated July 28, 1868, by the Legislatures of the
following States:
Connecticut, June 30, 1866.
New Hampshire, July 7, 1866.
Tennessee, July 19, 1866.
[503]New Jersey, September 11, 1866.
[504]Oregon, September 19, 1866.
Vermont, November 9, 1866.
New York, January 10, 1867.
[505]Ohio, January 11, 1867.
Illinois, January 15, 1867.
West Virginia, January 16, 1867.
Kansas, January 18, 1867.
Maine, January 19, 1867.
Nevada, January 22, 1867.
Missouri, January 26, 1867.
Indiana, January 29, 1867.
Minnesota, February 1, 1867.
Rhode Island, February 7, 1867.
Wisconsin, February 13, 1867.
Pennsylvania, February 13, 1867.
Michigan, February 15, 1867.
Massachusetts, March 20, 1867.
Nebraska, June 15, 1867.
Iowa, April 3, 1868.
Arkansas, April 6, 1868.
Florida, June 9, 1868.
[506]North Carolina, July 4, 1868.
Louisiana, July 9, 1868.
[506]South Carolina, July 9, 1868.
Alabama, July 13, 1868.
[506]Georgia, July 21, 1868.
Mississippi, January 17, 1870.
Texas, February 18, 1870.
[506]Virginia ratified this amendment on the 8th of October, 1869,
subsequent to the date of the proclamation of the Secretary of State.
Delaware, Maryland, and Kentucky rejected the amendment.
The fifteenth article was submitted to the Legislatures of the several
States, there being then thirty-seven States, by a resolution of
Congress passed on the 27th of February, 1869, at the first session of
the Forty-first Congress; and was ratified, according to a proclamation
of the Secretary of State dated March 30, 1870, by the Legislatures of
the following States:
Nevada, March 1, 1869.
West Virginia, March 3, 1869.
North Carolina, March 5, 1869.
Louisiana, March 5, 1869.
Illinois, March 5, 1869.
Michigan, March 8, 1869.
Wisconsin, March 9, 1869.
Massachusetts, March 12, 1869.
Maine, March 12, 1869.
South Carolina, March 16, 1869.
Pennsylvania, March 26, 1869.
Arkansas, March 30, 1869.
[507]New York, April 14, 1869.
Indiana, May 14, 1869.
Connecticut, May 19, 1869.
Florida, June 15, 1869.
New Hampshire, July 7, 1869.
Virginia, October 8, 1869.
Vermont, October 21, 1869.
Alabama, November 24, 1869.
Missouri, January 10, 1870.
Mississippi, January 17, 1870.
Rhode Island, January 18, 1870.
Kansas, January 19, 1870.
[508]Ohio, January 27, 1870.
Georgia, February 2, 1870.
Iowa, February 3, 1870.
Nebraska, February 17, 1870.
Texas, February 18, 1870.
Minnesota, February 19, 1870.
[509]The State of New Jersey ratified this amendment on the 21st of
February, 1871, subsequent to the date of the proclamation of the
Secretary of State.
The States of California, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Oregon, and
Tennessee rejected this amendment.
The sixteenth article was passed by a resolution of Congress July 12,
1909; proclaimed by the Secretary of State, Philander C. Knox, as part
of the Constitution February 25, 1913, there then being forty-eight
States. The article was ratified by the States as follows:
Alabama, August 17, 1909.
Kentucky, February 9, 1910.
South Carolina, February 19, 1910.
Illinois, March 1, 1910.
Mississippi, March 7, 1910.
Oklahoma, March 14, 1910.
Maryland, April 8, 1910.
Georgia, August 3, 1910.
Texas, August 17, 1910.
Ohio, January 19, 1911.
Idaho, January 20, 1911.
Oregon, January 23, 1911.
Washington, January 26, 1911.
Montana, California, January 31, 1911.
Indiana, February 6, 1911.
Nevada, February 8, 1911.
Nebraska, North Carolina, February 11, 1911.
Colorado, February 20, 1911.
North Dakota, February 21, 1911.
Michigan, February 23, 1911.
Iowa, February 27, 1911.
Missouri, March 16, 1911.
Maine, March 31, 1911.
Tennessee, April 7, 1911.
Arkansas, April 22, 1911.
Wisconsin, May 26, 1911.
New York, July 12, 1911.
South Dakota, February 3, 1912.
Arizona, April 9, 1912.
Minnesota, June 11, 1912.
Delaware, Wyoming, February 3, 1913.
New Jersey, New Mexico, February 5, 1913.
The States of Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Kentucky and Utah rejected
this amendment.
The seventeenth article was passed by a resolution of Congress June 12,
1911; proclaimed by the Secretary of State, William J. Bryan, as part
of the Constitution May 31, 1913, there then being forty-eight States.
The article was ratified by the States as follows:
Massachusetts, May 22, 1912.
Arizona, June 3, 1912.
Minnesota, June 10, 1912.
New York, January 13, 1913.
Kansas, January 17, 1913.
Oregon, January 23, 1913.
North Carolina, January 25, 1913.
Michigan, California, January 28, 1913.
Idaho, January 31, 1913.
West Virginia, February 4, 1913.
Nebraska, February 5, 1913.
Iowa, February 6, 1913.
Washington, Montana, Texas, February 7, 1913.
Wyoming, February 11, 1913.
Illinois, Colorado, February 13, 1913.
North Dakota, February 18, 1913.
Nevada, Vermont, February 19, 1913.
Maine, February 20, 1913.
New Hampshire, February 21, 1913.
Oklahoma, February 24, 1913.
Ohio, February 25, 1913.
South Dakota, February 27, 1913.
Indiana, March 6, 1913.
Missouri, March 7, 1913.
Tennessee, April 1, 1913.
Arkansas, April 14, 1913.
Pennsylvania, Connecticut, April 15, 1913.
Wisconsin, May 9, 1913.
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A
Addystone (The), Pipe & Steel Co. _v._ U. S., 175 U. S., 211, (87)
American Insurance Company _v._ Canter, 1 Peters, 511, (15, 47, 127,
159, 193)
Ames _v._ Kansas, 111 U. S., 449, (139)
Arndt _v._ Griggs, 134 U. S., 316, (96)
B
Baldwin _v._ Hale, 1 Wallace, 223, (37, 38)
Bank of Commerce _v._ New York City, 2 Black, 620, (51, 52, 122)
Barbier _v._ Connolly, 113 U. S., 27, (207, 209)
Barron _v._ Baltimore, 7 Peters, 243, (11, 32, 47, 156, 161)
Bartemeyer _v._ Iowa, 18 Wallace, 129, (98)
Battle _v._ U. S., 209 U. S., 36, (43)
Beck _v._ Perkins, 139 U. S., 628, (137)
Bedford, _v._ U. S., 192 U. S., 217, (100)
Beef Trust, Swift and Co. _v._ U. S., 196 U. S., 375, (84)
Beer Co. _v._ Massachusetts, 97 U. S., 25, (92)
Blake _v._ McClung, 172 U. S., 239, (150, 151, 198)
Börs _v._ Preston, 111 U. S., 252, (120, 137)
Boyd _v._ Alabama, 94 U. S. 645, (92)
Boyd _v._ U. S., 116 U. S., 616, (203, 225)
Brewer Brick Co. _v._ Brewer, 62 Maine, 62, (60)
Brig Wilson _v._ U. S., 1 Brockenbrough, 437, (63)
Brimmer _v._ Rebman, 138 U. S., 78, (68, 79)
Briscoe _v._ Bank of Kentucky, 11 Peters, 257, (41)
Brown _v._ Houston, 114 U. S., 622, (80)
Brown _v._ Maryland, 12 Wheaton, 419, (66, 75, 76)
Brown _v._ U. S., 8 Cranch, 110, (47)
Brown _v._ Walker, 161 U. S., 591, (162, 226)
Bucher _v._ Cheshire, R. R. Co., 125 U. S., 555, (145)
Buckner _v._ Finley, 2 Peters, 590, (148, 149)
Burgess _v._ Seligman, 107 U. S., 20, (145)
Buttfield _v._ Stranahan, 192 U. S., 470, (88)
C
Calder _v._ Bull, 3 Dallas, 386, (32, 224)
Callan _v._ Wilson, 127 U. S., 540, (160)
Capitol Traction Co. _v._ Hof, 174 U. S., 1, (210)
Central Bridge Corporation _v._ City of Lowell, 4 Gray (Mass.), 474,
(99)
Chicago, etc., Ry. Co. _v._ Wellman, 143 U. S., 339, (186)
Chisholm _v._ Georgia, 2 Dallas, 419, (114, 141 [note])
Cincinnati, Wilmington, etc., R. R. Co. _v._ Commissioners, 1 Ohio
St., 88, (169)
Civil Rights Cases, 109 U. S., 3, (17, 24, 94, 217, 218, 220)
Clark Distilling Co. _v._ Am. Ex. Co., and State of W. Va., (64)
Clark Distilling Co. _v._ W. Md. R.R. Co., (64)
Coe _v._ Errol, 116 U. S., 525, (73)
Cohens _v._ Virginia, 6 Wheaton, 382, (13, 119, 121, 138, 162)
Collector (The) _v._ Day, 11 Wallace, 113, (54, 55)
Commissioners of Immigration _v._ North German Lloyd, 92 U. S., 259,
(32)
Commonwealth _v._ McCloskey, 2 Rawle (Pa.), 374, (186)
Cook _v._ Marshall Company, 196 U. S., 261, (10)
Corfield _v._ Coryell, 4 Washington C. C., 371, (200, 213)
Cooley _v._ Board of Port Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia, 12
Howard, 299, (74)
Corporation Tax Cases, 220 U. S., 611, (62)
Cotting _v._ Kansas City Stock Yards Co., 183 U. S., 79, (198)
County of Mobile _v._ Kimball, 102 U. S., 691, (32)
Crandall _v._ Nevada, 6 Wallace, 36, (214)
Crutcher _v._ Kentucky, 141 U. S., 47, (78, 79)
Cunningham _v._ Macon & Brunswick R. R. Co., 109 U. S., 446, (141)
Cunnius _v._ Reading School District, 198 U. S., 458, (97)
D
Dalby _v._ Wolf, 14 Iowa, 228, (31)
Dale Tile Mfg. Co. _v._ Hyatt, 125 U. S., 46, (44)
Danbury Hatters’ Case, Loewe _v._ Lawler, 208 U. S., 274, (85)
_Daniel Ball_ (The), 10 Wallace, 557, (71)
Darrington _v._ Bank of Alabama, 13 Howard, 12, (41)
Davis _v._ Beason, 133 U. S., 333, (195)
Davis _v._ Packard, 7 Peters, 276, (120)
Dent _v._ West Virginia, 129 U. S., 114, (207)
Dooley _v._ U. S., 183 U. S., 151, (49)
Dorr _v._ U. S., 195 U. S., 138, (49, 163)
Douglas _v._ Kentucky, 168 U. S., 488, (92, 93)
Downes _v._ Bidwell, 182 U. S., 244, (14, 49, 50, 160, 162, 163, 201)
Drake _v._ U. S., _ex rel._ Bates, 30 App. D. C., 312;
36 Wash. Law Rep., 140, (111)
E
East Hartford _v._ Hartford Bridge Co., 10 Howard, 511, (93)
Escanaba Company _v._ Chicago, 107 U. S., 678, (74)
_Ex parte_ Boyer, 109 U. S., 629, (138)
_Ex parte_ Garland, 4 Wallace, 333, (107)
_Ex parte_ Griffiths, 118 Indiana, 83, (136, 222)
_Ex parte_ Milligan, 4 Wallace, 2, (198)
_Ex parte_ Reggel, 114 U. S., 642, (17, 151, 152)
_Ex parte_ Siebold, 100 U. S., 37, (138, 156, 218)
_Ex parte_ Wall, 107 U. S., 265, (205)
_Ex parte_ Watkins, 7 Peters, 568, (143)
_Ex parte_ Yarbrough, 110 U. S., 651, (157, 177, 215, 216, 223)
F
Field _v._ Clark, 143 U. S., 649, (25, 169, 190)
Fish _v._ Jefferson Police Jury, 116 U. S., 131, (91)
Florida Central R. R. Co. _v._ Reynolds, 183 U. S., 476, (60)
Fong Yue Ting _v._ U. S., 149 U. S., 698, (156)
Foster _v._ Kansas, 112 U. S., 201, (98)
Fox _v._ Ohio, 5 Howard, 410, (42)
Franklin Needle Co. _v._ Franklin, 65 N. H., 177, (60)
Frees _v._ Ford, 6 New York, 176, (186)
French _v._ Barber Asphalt Paving Co., 181 U. S., 324, (62)
Ft. Leavenworth R. R. Co. _v._ Loewe, 114 U. S. 525, (48)
G
Gaines _v._ Fuentes, 92 U. S., 10, (143)
Garfield _v._ U. S., _ex rel._ Frost, 30 App. D. C., 165;
35 Wash. Law Rep., 771, (111)
Gelpoke _v._ City of Dubuque, 1 Wallace, 175, (144)
Georgia R. R. and Banking Co. _v._ Smith, 128 U. S., 174, (93)
Georgia _v._ Stanton, 6 Wallace, 57, (107)
Gibbons _v._ Ogden, 9 Wheaton, 1, (32, 67, 68, 184)
Gilman _v._ Philadelphia, 3 Wallace, 713, (32)
Green _v._ Neal’s Lessee, 6 Peters, 291, (144)
Griffin _v._ U. S., _ex rel._ Le Cuyer, 30 App. D. C., 291;
36 Wash. Law Rep., 103, (111)
Guinn and Beal _v._ U. S., 238 U. S., 347, (223)
Gunn _v._ Barry, 15 Wallace, 610, (94)
H
Hanley _v._ Donaghue, 116 U. S., 1, (147, 148)
Hanley _v._ Kansas City Southern Railroad Co., 187 U. S., 617, (70,
88)
Hans _v._ Louisiana, 134 U. S., 1, (141)
Harman _v._ Chicago, 147 U. S., 396, (75)
Harris _v._ People, 128 Illinois, 585, (225)
Hartell _v._ Tilghman, 99 U. S., 558, (44)
Hawaii _v._ Mankichi, 190 U. S., 197, (94, 163)
Hayburn’s Case, 2 Dallas, 409, note, (222)
Henderson _et al._ Mayor of the City of New York _et al._ (32)
Henderson _v._ Mayor of New York, 92 U. S., 259, (68)
Hepburn _v._ Ellzey, 2 Cranch, 445, (47, 126)
Hepburn _v._ Griswold, 8 Wallace, 603, (39)
Herdic _v._ Roessler, 109 N. Y., 127, (44)
Hill and Co. Lmtd. _v._ Hoover, 220 U. S., 329, (44)
Holden _v._ Hardy, 169 U. S., 366, (207)
Hollinger _v._ Davis, 146 U. S., 314, (225)
Hooe _v._ Jamieson, 166 U. S., 395, (142)
Hope _v._ U. S., 227 U. S., 308, (88)
Hull _v._ De Cuir, 95 U. S., 485, (32)
Hurtado _v._ California, 110 U. S., 514, (205, 220)
I
Inman S. S. Co., _v._ Tinker, 94 U. S., 238, (81)
_In re_ Debs, 158 U. S., 564, (87)
_In re_ Neagle, 135 U. S., 1, (85, 106, 116)
_In re_ Rapier, 143 U. S., 110, (43)
J
Juilliard _v._ Greenman, 110 U. S., 421, (38, 39, 95)
K
Kelly _v._ Pittsburgh, 104 U. S., 78, (62)
Kendall _v._ U. S., 12 Peters, 524, (107)
Kentucky Railroad Tax Cases, 115 U. S., 321, (62)
Kidd _v._ Pearson, 128 U. S., 1, (73)
Kimmish _v._ Ball, 129 U. S., 217, (10)
Kingman _v._ City of Brockton, 153 Mass., 255, (61)
Kirtland _v._ Hotchkiss, 100 U. S., 491, (53, 54)
Knox _v._ Lee, 12 Wallace, 554, (40)
Kohl _v._ U. S., 91 U. S., 367, (100)
Kring _v._ Missouri, 107 U. S., 221, (224)
L
Lamar _ex_ _v._ Browne _et al._, 92 U. S., 187, (47)
Lascelles _v._ Georgia, 148 U. S., 537, (152, 153, 154)
Legal Tender Cases, 12 Wallace, 457, (156)
Leisy _v._ Hardin, 135 U. S., 100, (68, 79, 81)
License Cases (The), 5 Howard, 504, (10, 32, 97)
Loan Association _v._ Topeka, 20 Wallace, 655, (52, 61)
Lockner _v._ New York, 198 U. S., 45, (198, 209)
Lord _v._ S. S. Co., 102 U. S., 541, (88)
Lottery Cases, 188 U. S., 321, (83)
L. S. & M. S. Railway Co. _v._ Ohio, 173 U. S., (68, 79)
Luria _v._ U. S., 231 U. S., 9, (221)
Luther _v._ Borden, 7 Howard, 1, (128, 131, 154, 155)
M
Marbury _v._ Madison, 1 Cranch, 177, (16, 18, 24, 64, 107, 119, 125,
129, 131, 135, 143 [note], 176 [note], 185)
Martin _v._ Hunter’s Lessee, 1 Wheaton, 304, (4, 125, 143, 188)
Mattingly _v._ District of Columbia, 97 U. S., 687, (97)
Mattox _v._ U. S., 156 U. S., 237, (226)
Maxwell _v._ Dow, 176 U. S., 606, (220)
Mayor (The) _etc._, of the City of New York _v._ Miln, 11 Peters,
102, (32)
McCrackin _v._ Hayward, 2 Howard, 608, (89, 94)
McCulloch _v._ Maryland, 4 Wheaton, 316, (3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 19, 26, 31,
34, 38, 51, 52, 53, 54, 66, 156, 187)
McElmayle _v._ Cohen, 13 Peters, 312, (147)
Metropolitan R. R. Co. _v._ District of Columbia, 132 U. S., 1, (48)
Minor _v._ Happersett, 21 Wallace, 162, (155, 215)
Mississippi _v._ Johnson, 4 Wallace, 475, (107, 110, 111)
Missouri Pacific Ry. _v._ Nebraska, 164 U. S., 403, (95)
Mitchell _v._ Clark, 110 U. S., 633, (94, 95)
Moore _v._ Houston, 3 S. and R. (Pa.), 179, (36)
Morgan S. S. Co. _v._ La. Board of Health, 118 U. S., 455, (68, 79)
Morley _v._ L. S. & W. S. R. R., 146 U. S., 162, (93)
Mormon Church _v._ U. S., 136 U. S., 1, (47)
Mugler _v._ Kansas, 123 U. S., 623, (98, 209)
Munn _v._ Illinois, 94 U. S., 113, (209)
Murray _v._ Charleston, 96 U. S., 432, (90)
Murray’s Lessee _v._ The Hoboken Land and Improvement Co., 18 Howard,
272, (205)
N
National Bank _v._ County of Yankton, 101 U. S., 129, (159, 160)
Neal _v._ Delaware, 103 U. S., 170, (223)
New Orleans Gas Co. _v._ Louisiana Light Co., 115 U. S., 650, (93)
Nishimura Ekin _v._ U. S., 142 U. S., 651, (221)
Northern Securities Co. _v._ U. S., 193 U. S., 197, (84)
Norton _v._ Shelby County, 118 U. S., 425, (188)
O
Ogden _v._ Saunders, 12 Wheaton, 332, (188)
Ohio (The) and Mississippi R. R. Co. _v._ Wheeler, 1 Black, 286,
(142)
Osborn _v._ Bank of the U. S., 9 Wheaton, 738, (136, 137)
P
Packet Co. _v._ Keokuk, 95 U. S., 80, (81)
Pana _v._ Bowler, 107 U. S., 529, (144)
Parker _v._ Davis, 12 Wallace, 79, (39)
Passenger (The) Cases, 7 Howard, 283, (81)
Patterson _v._ Kentucky, 97 U. S., 501, (44)
Paul _v._ Virginia, 8 Wallace, 168, (71, 149, 198, 213)
Pembina Mining Co. _v._ Pennsylvania, 125 U. S., 181, (207)
Pennoyer _v._ Neff, 95 U. S., 714, (96, 151)
Pennsylvania College Cases, (Washington and Jefferson Colleges), 13
Wallace, 190, (91)
Pensacola Telegraph Co. _v._ Western Union Telegraph Co., 96 U. S.,
1, (32, 67, 70)
People _v._ Ruggles, 8 Johns (N.Y.), 290, (196)
Pfeiffer _v._ Board of Education, 77 N. W. Rep., 250, (196, 203)
Philadelphia and Southern S. S. Co. _v._ Pa., 122 U. S., 325, (59)
Pierce _v._ Drew, 136 Mass., 75, (100)
Pollock _v._ Farmer’s Loan and Trust Co., 158 U. S., 601, (190)
P. R. Co. _v._ Pa., 15 Wallace, 300, (52, 53)
Presser _v._ Illinois, 116 U. S., 252, (220)
Prize (The) Cases, 2 Black, 635, (46)
Pullman Car Co., 64 Fed. Reporter, 724, (85)
Pumpelly _v._ Green Bay Co., 13 Wallace, 166, (99)
R
Railroad Co. _v._ Huson, 95 U. S., 465, (79, 81)
Railroad Co. _v._ Tennessee, 101 U. S., 337, (141)
Rasmussen _v._ U. S., 197 U. S., (49, 163)
Rex _v._ Dawson, 5 State Trials, (45)
Reynolds _v._ U. S., 98 U. S., 145, (195, 203)
Rhodes _v._ Iowa, 170 U. S., 412, (81)
Riggs _v._ Johnson County, 6 Wallace, 166, (143)
Robbins _v._ Shelby County Taxing District, 120 U. S., 489, (78)
Robertson _v._ Baldwin, 165 U. S., 275, (204)
Robertson _v._ Cease, 97 U. S., 646, (118)
Rogers _v._ Alabama, 192 U. S., 226, (17)
S
Salt Co. _v._ E. Saginaw, 13 Wallace, 373, (91)
Sands _v._ Manistee River Improvement Co., 123 U. S., 238, (75, 157)
Savings and Loan Society _v._ Multnomah County, 169 U. S., 421, (54)
Schellenberger _v._ Pa., 171 U. S., 1, (68, 81)
Scott _v._ Sandford, 19 Howard, 393, (58)
Secretary (The) _v._ McGarrahan, 9 Wallace, 298, (189)
Security Mutual Life Insurance Co. _v._ Prewitt, 202 U. S., 246, (143)
Shreveport (The) Case (Houston East and West Texas Railway Co. _v._
U. S.;
Texas and Pacific Railway Co. _v._ U. S.), 234 U. S., 342, (88)
Sinnot _v._ Davenport, 22 Howard, 227 (32)
Slaughter House Cases, 16 Wallace, 77, (150, 156, 200, 212, 214, 215)
Smith _v._ Alabama, 124 U. S., 465, (145)
South Carolina _v._ U. S., 199 U. S., 437, (62)
South Dakota _v._ North Dakota, 192 U. S., 286, (139)
Southern Pacific Railroad Co. _v._ California, 118 U. S., 109, (137)
Spaulding _v._ Vilas, 161 U. S., 483, (107)
Spring Valley Water Works _v._ Schottler, 110 U. S., 347, (209)
Sproule _v._ Fredericks, 69 Miss., 898, (3)
Stanley _v._ Schwalby, 162 U. S., 255, (138)
State _ex rel._ _v._ Simons, 32 Minn., 540, (136)
State _ex rel._ _v._ Stone, 120 Missouri, 428, (111, 131, 189)
State _ex rel._ Weiss _v._ District Board, 76 Wis., 177, (196)
Steamboat (The) _Magnolia_, 20 Howard, 296, (137)
Stone _v._ City of Charleston, 114 Mass., 214, (32)
Strander _v._ West Virginia, 100 U. S., 303, (218)
Sturgis _v._ Crowningshield, 4 Wheaton, 122 (188)
Supervisors of Elections (Case of), 114 Mass., 247, (135)
T
Talbot _v._ Seeman, 1 Cranch, 38, (148)
Taylor _v._ Place, 4 R. I., 324, (19, 31)
Telegraph Co. _v._ Texas, 105 U. S., 460, (80)
Texas _v._ White, 7 Wallace, 700, (156)
Thompson _v._ Utah, 170 U. S., 343, (160, 163, 224)
Thompson _v._ Whitman, 18 Wallace, 457, (146)
Transportation Co. _v._ California Railroad Commission, 236 U. S.,
151, (88)
Transportation Co. _v._ Wheeling, 99 U. S., 273, (52, 82)
Trebilcock _v._ Wilson, 12 Wallace, 687, (39)
Trustees of Dartmouth College _v._ Woodward, 4 Wheaton, 518, (91)
Turner _v._ Maryland, 107 U. S., 38, (81)
Twining _v._ State of New Jersey, 211 U. S., 78, (221)
U
U. S. _v._ Aaron Burr, Cotton’s Constitutional Opinions of John
Marshall, i., 100, (188)
U. S. _v._ Black, 128 U. S., 40, (107, 111, 112, 189)
U. S. _v._ Blaine, 139 U. S., 306, (107, 189)
U. S. _v._ Boyd, 116 U. S., 616, (198)
U. S. _v._ Cruikshank, 92 U. S., 542 (156, 197, 217)
U. S. _v._ Del. & Hudson Ry., 213 U. S., 366 (88)
U. S. _v._ E. C. Knight Co., 165 U. S., 1, (72)
U. S. _ex rel._ Daly, 28 App. D. C., 552;
35 Wash. Law. Rep., 81, (111)
U. S. _ex rel._ _v._ Duell, 172 U. S., 576, (222)
U. S. _ex rel._ Newcomb Motor Co., 30 App. D. C., 464;
36 Wash. Law Rep., 150, (111)
U. S. _v._ Fisher, 2 Cranch, 396, (26, 27)
U. S. _v._ Freight Association, 166 U. S., 290, (127)
U. S. _v._ Holliday, 3 Wallace, 407, (88)
U. S. _v._ Lee, 106 U. S., 196, (133, 141)
U. S. _v._ Louisville and Nashville R. R. Co., 236 U. S., 318, (198)
U. S. _v._ Marigold, 9 Howard, 560, (42)
U. S. _v._ Rauscher, 119 U. S., 407, (153)
U. S. _v._ Rodgers, 150 U. S., 249, (46, 222)
U. S. _v._ R. R. Co., 17 Wallace, 322, (59)
U. S. _v._ Smith, 5 Wheaton, 153, (45)
U. S. _v._ Texas, 143 U. S., 621, (139)
U. S. _v._ Villato, 2 Dallas, 373, (221)
U. S. _v._ Windom, 137 U. S., 636, (107, 189)
U. S. _v._ Wong Kim Ark, 169 U. S., 649, (221)
V
Vanini _et al._ _v._ Paine _et al._, 1 Harr. (Del.) 65, (44)
Veazie Bank _v._ Fenno, 8 Wallace, 533, (62)
W
Walker _v._ Sauvinet, 92 U. S., 90, (220)
Walton _v._ Missouri, 91 U. S., 275, (76, 77)
Ward _v._ Maryland, 12 Wallace, 418, (150)
Weaver _v._ Fegely, 29 Pa. St., 27, (36)
Weeks _v._ U. S., 232 U. S., 383, (198)
Weems _v._ U. S., 217 U. S., 394, (49)
Wellington, Petitioner, 16 Pickering (Mass.), 96, (186)
Wells _v._ Bain, 75 Pa. St., 39, (3)
West _v._ Cabell, 153 U. S., 78, (198)
West _v._ Louisiana, 194 U. S., 258, (220)
Western Union Telegraph Co. _v._ Call Publishing Co., 181 U. S., 92,
(145)
Weston _et al._ _v._ City of Charleston, 2 Peters, 466, (13)
Wheaton _v._ Peters, 8 Peters, 591 (43)
Whitten _v._ Tomlinson, 160 U. S., 231, (143)
Wiley _v._ Sinkler, 179 U. S., 58, (157, 177, 216)
Williamette Iron Bridge Co. _v._ Hatch, 125 U. S., 1, (32)
Williamson _v._ Berry, 8 Howard, 540, (147)
Wilson _v._ New Ferris, Receivers Mo. Ok. and G. Railway Co., (64)
Wisconsin Central R. R. Co. _v._ Price County, 133 U. S., 496, (60)
Wisconsin _v._ Pelican Insurance Co., 127 U. S., 265, (140)
Woodruff _v._ Trapnall, 10 Howard, 190, (89, 90)
Y
Yick Wo _v._ Hopkins, 118 U. S., 356, (206, 211)
INDEX
A
Aliens, as citizens and allegiance of, 1
Allegiance, 222
Ambassadors, 119, 120, 137
Amendments, protect fundamental rights, 22;
the Sixteenth, 23, 24, 57, 61;
I.-XVII., 28, 29, 57, 58, 61;
Fourteenth, 96, 97;
Eleventh, the, 114, 115;
first ten, 173–175, 199, 200;
Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, 175;
Thirteenth, 176, 198, 200;
Fourteenth, 176, 198, 200, 206, 207, 216, 217;
Fifth, 198;
Fifteenth, 222, 223;
Ninth, 200;
Tenth, 200, 203;
Fourth, 203;
Seventh, 210
Anti-Trust Act, 83, 84, 85
Appropriations, 22, 171;
of Representatives and Senators, 179
Arizona, admission of, 158
Army, 171
Asylum, right of, 152, 153
Attainder, bill of, 22, 171, 172
B
Bank, State, 89, 90
Bankruptcies, 36, 37
Bible, in public schools, 202, 203
Bill of credit, 41
Bill of Rights, 173–175;
the Constitution a, 187, 210, 211
Bonds, 90
Boycott, 84
C
Cabinet, the, 105, 106
California, law of, held constitutional, 220
Carriers, Common, 87
Charters, 91
Checks and balances, 164, 165;
on the Executive, 166–169;
on Congress, 170–177, 178;
on the States, 176–181
Checks on Congress, 27
Chief Justice, in Court of Impeachment, 103, 108, 109
Cities, jurisdiction over, 48
Citizen, of a territory, of a State, 141, 142;
privileges and immunities of, 149, 150, 212, 215, 220;
as participant in the federal government, 182;
as elector, 216
Citizens, privileges and immunities of, 149, 150, 163 (note)
Citizenship, defined, 212;
two citizenships, 212, 213, 226–229
Civil Rights Bill, 218, 219
Comity, the law of State, 146–163