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Introduction

• Public Law No. 91-589, 84 Stat. 1585, 2 U.S.C. § 168
  
• Introduction to the 2012 Centennial Edition
  
• Historical Note on Formation of the Constitution
  
• Bill of Rights
  
• Proposed Amendments not Ratified by the States
  

Preamble to the Constitution

The Preamble

Articles of the Constitution

• Article I Legislative Branch
• Article II Executive Branch
• Article III Judicial Branch
• Article IV Relationships Between the States
• Article V Amending the Constitution
• Article VI Prior Debts, National Supremacy, and Oaths of Office
• Article VII Ratification

Amendments to the Constitution

• First Amendment Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition
• Second Amendment Bearing and Keeping Arms
• Third Amendment Quartering Soldiers
• Fourth Amendment Search and Seizure
• Fifth Amendment Grand Jury, Double Jeopardy, Self Incrimination, Due Process, Takings
• Sixth Amendment Rights of Those Charged in Criminal Prosecutions
• Seventh Amendment Civil Trial Rights
• Eighth Amendment Excessive Bail and Fines, and Cruel and Unusual Punishment
• Ninth Amendment Unenumerated Rights
• Tenth Amendment Rights Reserved to the States and to the People
• Eleventh Amendment Suits Against States
• Twelfth Amendment Election of President
• Thirteenth Amendment Abolition of Slavery
• Fourteenth Amendment Citizenship, Equal Protection, and Other Post-Civil War Provisions
• Fifteenth Amendment Right of Citizens to Vote
• Sixteenth Amendment Income Tax
• Seventeenth Amendment Popular Election of Senators
• Eighteenth Amendment Prohibition of Liquor
• Nineteenth Amendment Women's Suffrage Rights
• Twentieth Amendment Presidential Term and Succession
• Twenty-First Amendment Repeal of Prohibition
• Twenty-Second Amendment Presidential Term Limits
• Twenty-Third Amendment Presidential Electors for District of Columbia
• Twenty-Fourth Amendment Abolition of the Poll Taxes
• Twenty-Fifth Amendment Presidential Vacancy and Disability
• Twenty-Sixth Amendment Reduction of Voting Age
• Twenty-Seventh Amendment Congressional Compensation

Appendix

• Methodologies for the Tables