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CONSTITUTION OF

Commerce
between
the states.

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.

Money,
how drawn
from trea-
sury.
To be pub-
lished.

No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in conse-
quence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement
and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public
money shall be published from time to time.

No nobility..

No title of nobility shall be granted by the United Slates :
and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them,

Foreign
presents
and titles.

shall, without the consent of the congress, accept of any pre-
sent, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever, from any
king, prince, or foreign state.

Powers
denied to
the states.

SEC. 10. No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or con-
federation ; grant letters of marque and reprisal ; coin money ;
emit bills of credit ; make any thing but gold and silver coin a
tender in payment of debts ; pass any bill of attainder, ex post
facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts; or grant
any title of nobility.

Other pow-
ers denied
to states.

No slate 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
net produce of all duties and imposts, laid by any state on
imports or exports, shall be for the use of the treasury of the
United States ; and all such laws shall be subject to the revi-
sion and control of the congress.

Further
denial of
powers to
states.

No state shall, without the consent of congress, lay any duty
of tonnage, keep troops, or ships of war in time of peace, enter
into any agreement or compact with another state, or with a
foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in
such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.

ARTICLE 11.

President
U. States.

SEC. 1. The executive power shall be vested in a president
of the United States of America. He shall hold his office dur-
ing the term of four years, and, together with the vice-president
chosen for the same term, be elected as follows :

Electors
how ap-
pointed.

Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the legislature
thereof may direct, a number 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 holding an office of trust or profit under the United
States, shall be appointed an elector.

Electors to
meet and to
elect a pre-
sident and
vice-presi-
dent.

The electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by
ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an
inhabitant of the same state with themselves. And they shall
make a list of all the persons voted for, and the number of
votes for each; which list they shall sign and certify, and