§ 1. No person shall be eligible to the office of President
of the United States unless he be now a Citizen of one of
the States, or hereafter be born a Citizen of the United
States.
§ 2. No person shall be eligible as a Senator or
Representative unless at the time of his election he be a
Citizen and inhabitant of the State in which he is chosen;
provided that he shall not be deemed to be disqualified by a
temporary absence from the State.
§ 3. No person entitled by this Constitution to elect or to
be elected President of the United States, or a Senator
or Representative in the Legislature thereof, shall be
disqualified but by the conviction of some offence for which
the law shall have previously ordained the punishment of
disqualification. But the Legislature may by law provide
that persons holding offices under the United States or
either of them shall not be eligible to a place in the
Assembly or Senate, and shall be during their continuance in
office suspended from sitting in the Senate.
§ 4. No person having an office or place of trust under the
United States shall without permission of the Legislature
accept any present emolument office or title from any
foreign Prince or State.
§ 5. The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to the
rights privileges and immunities of Citizens in every other
State; and full faith and credit shall be given in each
State to the public acts, records and judicial proceedings
of another.
§ 6. Fugitives from justice from one State who shall be
found in another shall be delivered up on the application of
the State from which they fled.
§ 7. No new State shall be erected within the limits of
another, or by the junction of two or more States, without
the concurrent consent of the Legislatures of the United
States and of the States concerned. The Legislature of the
United States may admit new States into the Union.
§ 8. The United States are hereby declared to be bound to
guarantee to each State a Republican form of Government, and
to protect each State as well against domestic violence as
foreign invasion.
§ 9. All Treaties, Contracts and engagements of the United
States of America under the articles of Confederation and
perpetual Union, shall have equal validity under this
Constitution.
§ 10. No State shall enter into a Treaty, Alliance, or
contract with another, or with a foreign power without the
consent of the United States.
§ 11. The members of the Legislature of the United States
and of each State, and all officers Executive & Judicial of
the one and of the other shall take an oath or affirmation
to support the Constitution of the United States.
§ 12. This Constitution may receive such alterations and
amendments as may be proposed by the Legislature of the
United States, with the concurrence of two thirds of the
members of both Houses, and ratified by the Legislatures of,
or by Conventions of deputies chosen by the people in, two
thirds of the States composing the Union.