DEPARTMENTS. 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 departDEPRIVED. No State without its consent shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate. DEVOLVE. 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..

DICKINSON, deputy from Delaware, signed this Constitution. John.

DIRECT tax. Representatives and direct taxes to be apportioned among the States according to
THAL their respective numbers, &c. (See Representatives.)

DIRECT tax. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census

or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken....
DISCHARGED from service or labor. No person held to service or labor in one State shall
be discharged from such service or labor in another
DISCIPLINING the militia. Congress shall have power 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...
DISCOVERIES. Exclusive right to discoveries may be secured by inventors for a limited time.
DISORDERLY behavior. Each House may punish its members for disorderly behavior........
DISTRICT not exceeding ten miles square. Congress shall have power 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......

DISTRICT. 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 com-
mitted, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law...
DISQUALIFICATION. Judgment on impeachment a disqualification to hold and enjoy any

DIVIDED. The Vice President shall have no vote unless the Senate be equally divided
DOCK yards, &c. Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation over dock yards,
&c.

ALPHABETICAL ANALYSIS-Continued.

DOMESTIC tranquillity. The Constitution established to ensure domestic tranquillity
DOMESTIC violence. The United States shall, on application of the Legislature, or of the
Executive, (when the Legislature cannot be convened,) protect each State against domes-
tic violence..

DURING good behavior. The Judges, both of the Supreme and Inferior courts, shall hold their
offices during good behavior..

DUTIES. Congress shall have power to lay duties..

DUTIES. All duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States
DUTIES. 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..

DUTIES on imports. 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 its
inspection laws: and the nett produce of all duties and imposts laid by any State on im-
ports 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 control of the Congress.
DUTIES. In case of the death, removal, resignation, or inability of the President to discharge
the powers and duties of that office, the same shall devolve on the Vice President, &c...
DUTIES. The President 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
DRC offices.

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DUTY or tax might have been imposed on imported persons (or slaves) up to 1808..........
DUTY. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any State
DUTY of tonnage. No State shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage...

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EFFECT of proceedings of States. Congress may, by general laws, prescribe the effect of the
public acts, records, and proceedings of States.

EFFECTS. The right of the people to be secure in their effects against unreasonable searches
and seizures shall not be violated..

ELECTED. Representatives in Congress shall be chosen or eiected every second year by the
people of the several States..

ELECTED. Two Senators from each State shall be chosen or elected by the Legislature

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ELECTION. When vacancies happen in the representation from a State, the Executive thereof
shall issue writs of election to fill them...

ELECTION of President and Vice President United States. The President 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:.....

ELECTION. President and Vice President United States

Each State shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a num-
ber 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 hold-
ing an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.....
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 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 ma-
jority, 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

ALPHABETICAL ANALYSIS-Continued.

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
it 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, and 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.....

Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they
shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United States..

In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, resignation, or ina-
bility 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..

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ELECTIONS. The times, places, and manner of holding elections for Senators and Represen
tatives 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
choosing Senators..
ELECTIONS. Each House shall be the judge of the elections, returns, and qualifications of
its own members..
ELECTOR. No Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under
the United States, shall be appointed an elector of President or Vice President of the
United States..

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ELECTORS. The qualifications of electors of Representatives in Congress to be the same as for electors of the most numerous branch of the State Legislature.. ELECTORS of President and Vice President of the United States. Appointment, qualifica- S tion. time of choosing, and duties of electors. (See Election.)..

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ELIGIBILITY of a Representative in Congress. 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.
ELIGIBILITY of a Senator in Congress. 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
ELIGIBILITY of electors of President and Vice President of the United States. No Senator or
EROY Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall
be appointed an elector..

ELIGIBILITY of the President of the United States. 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.....

ELIGIBILITY of the Vice President of the United States. No person constitutionally ineli-
gible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United
States.
EMOLUMENTS. 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.
EMOLUMENT. No person holding any office of profit or trust under the United States, shall,
without the consent of Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any
kind whatever from any King, Prince, or foreign State

EMOLUMENT of the President of the United States. The President shall receive a stated

compensation, but no other emolument from the United States, or either of them........
ENEMIES. Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them,
or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort......
ENGAGEMENTS entered into. All debts contracted or engagements entered into before the
adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Con-
stitution as under the Confederation