The Constitution of the United States of America : analysis and interpretation : analysis of cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 2022 / prepared by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress ; Jeanne M. Dennis, editor-in-chief ; Valerie C. Brannon, Kevin J. Hickey, Joanna R. Lampe, Brandon J. Murrill, Wen W. Shen, Jay Sykes, attorney editors ; Georgia I. Gkoulgkountina, managing legal editor ; Summer J. Norwood, Ji Young Zoey Ryu, Meghan C. Totten, legal editors.
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Contents:
Congressional Authorization -- Constitution of the United States of America: Literal Print -- Amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America: Literal Print -- Introduction -- 2022 Edition -- Congressional Authorization -- Background on Amendments to the Constitution -- Constitution Annotated Methodology -- Organization of the Constitution Annotated -- Historical Note on the Adoption of the Constitution -- Basic Principles Underlying the Constitution -- Ways to Interpret the Constitution -- Preamble -- Article I: Legislative Branch -- Section 1: Legislative Vesting Clause -- Section 2: House of Representatives -- Clause 1: Composition -- Clause 2: Qualifications -- Clause 3: Seats -- Clause 4: Vacancies -- Clause 5: Impeachment -- Section 3: Senate -- Clause 1: Composition -- Clause 2: Seats -- Clause 3: Qualifications -- Clause 4: President -- Clause 5: Officers -- Clause 6: Impeachment Trials -- Clause 7: Impeachment Judgments -- Section 4: Congress -- Clause 1: Elections Clause -- Clause 2: Assembly -- Section 5: Proceedings -- Clause 1: Authority -- Clause 2: Rules -- Clause 3: Records -- Clause 4: Sessions -- Section 6: Rights and Disabilities -- Clause 1: Pay, Privileges, and Immunities -- Clause 2: Bar on Holding Federal Office -- Section 7: Legislation -- Clause 1: Revenue -- Clause 2: Role of President -- Clause 3: Process -- Section 8: Enumerated Powers -- Clause 1: General Welfare -- Clause 2: Borrowing -- Clause 3: Commerce -- Clause 4: Uniform Laws -- Clause 5: Standards -- Clause 6: Counterfeiters -- Clause 7: Post Offices -- Clause 8: Intellectual Property -- Clause 9: Courts -- Clause 10: Maritime Crimes -- Clause 11: War Powers -- Clause 12: Army -- Clause 13: Navy -- Clause 14: Land and Naval Forces Rules -- Clause 15: Calling Militias -- Clause 16: Organizing Militias -- Clause 17: Enclave Clause -- Clause 18: Necessary and Proper Clause -- Section 9: Powers Denied Congress -- Clause 1: Migration or Importation -- Clause 2: Habeas Corpus -- Clause 3: Nullification -- Clause 4: Direct Taxes -- Clause 5: Exports -- Clause 6: Ports -- Clause 7: Appropriations -- Clause 8: Titles of Nobility and Foreign Emoluments -- Section 10: Powers Denied States -- Clause 1: Proscribed Powers -- Clause 2: Import-Export -- Clause 3: Acts Requiring Consent of Congress. Article II: Executive Branch -- Section 1: Function and Selection -- Clause 1: President's Role -- Clause 2: Electors -- Clause 3: Electoral College Count -- Clause 4: Electoral Votes -- Clause 5: Qualifications -- Clause 6: Succession -- Clause 7: Compensation and Emoluments -- Clause 8: Presidential Oath of Office -- Section 2: Powers -- Clause 1: Military, Administrative, and Clemency -- Clause 2: Advice and Consent -- Clause 3: Senate Recess -- Section 3: Duties -- Section 4: Impeachment -- Article III: Judicial Branch -- Section 1: Vesting Clause -- Section 2: Justiciability -- Clause 1: Cases or Controversies -- Clause 2: Supreme Court Jurisdiction -- Clause 3: Trials -- Section 3: Treason -- Clause 1: Meaning -- Clause 2: Punishment -- Article IV: Relationships Between the States -- Section 1: Full Faith and Credit Clause -- Section 2: Interstate Comity -- Clause 1: Privileges and Immunities -- Clause 2: Interstate Extradition -- Clause 3: Slavery -- Section 3: New States and Federal Property -- Clause 1: Admissions -- Clause 2: Territory and Other Property -- Section 4: Republican Form of Government -- Article V: Amending the Constitution -- Article VI: Supreme Law -- Clause 1: Obligations of New Federal Government -- Clause 2: Supremacy Clause -- Clause 3: Oaths of Office -- Article VII: Ratification -- First Amendment: Fundamental Freedoms -- Second Amendment: Right to Bear Arms -- Third Amendment: Quartering Soldiers -- Fourth Amendment: Searches and Seizures -- Fifth Amendment: Rights of Persons -- Sixth Amendment: Rights in Criminal Prosecutions -- Seventh Amendment: Civil Trial Rights -- Eighth Amendment: Cruel and Unusual Punishment -- Ninth Amendment: Unenumerated Rights -- Tenth Amendment: Rights Reserved to the States and the People -- Eleventh Amendment: Suits Against States -- Twelfth Amendment: Election of President -- Thirteenth Amendment: Abolition of Slavery -- Section 1: Prohibition on Slavery and Involuntary Servitude -- Section 2: Enforcement -- Fourteenth Amendment: Equal Protection and Other Rights -- Section 1: Rights -- Section 2: Apportionment of Representation -- Section 3: Disqualification from Holding Office -- Section 4: Public Debt -- Section 5: Enforcement -- Fifteenth Amendment: Right of Citizens to Vote -- Section 1: Right to Vote -- Section 2: Enforcement -- Sixteenth Amendment: Income Tax Seventeenth Amendment: Popular Election of Senators -- Eighteenth Amendment: Prohibition of Liquor -- Section 1: Prohibition -- Section 2: Enforcement of Prohibition -- Section 3: Ratification Deadline -- Nineteenth Amendment: Women's Suffrage -- Twentieth Amendment: Presidential Term and Succession -- Section 1: Terms -- Section 2: Meetings of Congress -- Section 3: Succession -- Section 4: Congress and Presidential Succession -- Section 5: Effective Date -- Section 6: Ratification -- Twenty-First Amendment: Repeal of Prohibition -- Section 1: Repeal of Eighteenth Amendment -- Section 2: Importation, Transportation, and Sale of Liquor -- Section 3: Ratification Deadline -- Twenty-Second Amendment: Presidential Term Limits -- Section 1: Limit -- Section 2: Ratification Deadline -- Twenty-Third Amendment: District of Columbia Electors -- Section 1: Electors -- Section 2: Enforcement -- Twenty-Fourth Amendment: Abolition of Poll Tax -- Section 1: Poll Tax -- Section 2: Enforcement -- Twenty-Fifth Amendment: Presidential Vacancy -- Section 1: Presidential Vacancy -- Section 2: Vice President Vacancy -- Section 3: Declaration by President -- Section 4: Declaration by Vice President and Others -- Twenty-Sixth Amendment: Reduction of Voting Age -- Section 1: Eighteen Years of Age -- Section 2: Enforcement -- Twenty-Seventh Amendment: Congressional Compensation -- Appendix and Resources -- Methodologies for the Tables -- Constitution Annotated Tables Generally -- Table of Supreme Court Decisions Overruled by Subsequent Decisions -- Table of Laws Held Unconstitutional in Whole or in Part by the Supreme Court -- Table of Supreme Court Justices -- Beyond the Constitution Annotated: Table of Additional Resources -- Methodology for the Table of Cases -- Table of Supreme Court Decisions Overruled by Subsequent Decisions -- Table of Laws Held Unconstitutional in Whole or in Part by the Supreme Court -- Table of Supreme Court Justices -- Table of Cases.
Summary:
First released in 1913 at the direction of the U.S. Senate, and since then, it has been published as a bound edition every 10 years, with updates issued every two years that address new constitutional law cases.
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