Daily Bites of the Constitution 20-Bill of Rights-continued
By Pearl Leona Sturgis
Post # 20 Send a tea bag to your representative. How hard is that?
Daily Bites of the Constitution of the United States
Preamble:
Reads From the Constitution in the Department of State's:
Preamble:
We the People of the United States in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America. Article 1 legislative department: Section 1” Congress legislative powers vested: All legislative powers herein granted (by the people) shall be vested in a congress of the United States which shall consist of a senate and a house of representatives (for the people)
United States Constitution : Bill of Rights
Amendments to the Constitution 1791 reference:
American History Textbook:
Continued on to Amendments 13-19
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a 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. Amendment 14 Protection of Freedom etc.-- Definition of citizen: States shall not abridge privileges of citizens.
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. Adopted 1804---1865--68
Representatives shall be appointed 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 in 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 (cut short) except for participation in or rebellion or other crime, the basis or representation thereof 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. (Right to vote for electors)
No person shall be a senator or representative in congress or elector of president and vice president, or hold any office civil or military in 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 as a judicial officer of any State to support the Constitution of the United States, shall having engaged in insurrection (resisting constitutional authority) or rebellion against the Constitution or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof, congress may by a vote of two thirds of each house remove such disability.
The validity of the public debt of the United States authorized by law including debts incurred for pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrections of rebellion shall not be questioned but neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred on aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States or any claim for the loss of emancipation (deliverance) of any slave but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
(to be continued Amendment 15-19 to end of 1926 Halleck’s History taught in Public Schools across the nation up to the 50s)
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The Importance of a Moral Society
The Constitution of the United States: A Transcription
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Amendments to the Constitution 1791 reference:
American History Textbook:
Reuben Halleck, taught in Public Schools across America in the 50s”
Continued on to Amendments 13-19
Amendment 13 Slavery Abolished Section 1:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a 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. Amendment 14 Protection of Freedom etc.-- Definition of citizen: States shall not abridge privileges of citizens.
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. Adopted 1804---1865--68
Section 2: Appointment of Representatives:
Representatives shall be appointed 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 in 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 (cut short) except for participation in or rebellion or other crime, the basis or representation thereof 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. (Right to vote for electors)
Section 3: Laws of Political Privileges:
No person shall be a senator or representative in congress or elector of president and vice president, or hold any office civil or military in 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 as a judicial officer of any State to support the Constitution of the United States, shall having engaged in insurrection (resisting constitutional authority) or rebellion against the Constitution or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof, congress may by a vote of two thirds of each house remove such disability.
Section 4 Public Debts:
The validity of the public debt of the United States authorized by law including debts incurred for pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrections of rebellion shall not be questioned but neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred on aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States or any claim for the loss of emancipation (deliverance) 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.
(to be continued Amendment 15-19 to end of 1926 Halleck’s History taught in Public Schools across the nation up to the 50s)
Full text of the Constitution of the United States Audiobook. This free Constitution of the United States Audiobook produced by http://www.librivox.org, and all Librivox audiobook recordings are free, in the public domain.
The Importance of a Moral Society
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
Thomas Paine
COMMON SENSE
published anonymously on Jan. 10, 1776
The Constitution of the United States: A Transcription
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