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 "I do olemnly wear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of Preident of the United States; and will, to the bet of my ability, preerve, protect and defend, the Contitution of the United States."

Sect. 2. The Preident hall be Commander in Chief of the army and navy of the United States, and of the militia of the everal States, when called into the actual ervice of the United States; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any ubject relating to the duties of their repective offices, and he hall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offences againt the United States, except in caes of impeachment.

He hall have power, by and with the advice and conent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators preent concur; and he hall nominate, and by and with the advice and conent of the Senate hall appoint Ambaadors, other public Miniters, and Conuls, Judges of the Supreme Court, and all other offices of the United States, whoe appointments are not herein otherwie provided for, and which hall be etablihed by law. But the Congres may by law vet the appointment of uch inferior officers as they think proper in the Preident alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.

The Preident hall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the reces of the Senate, by granting commiions, which hall expire at the end of their next eion.

Sect. 3. He hall from time to time give to the Congres information of the tate of the Union, and recommend to their conideration uch meaures as he hall judge neceary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary occaions, convene both Houes, or either of them, and in cae of diagreement between them, with repect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to uch time as he hall think proper; he hall receive Ambaadors and other public Miniters; he hall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and hall commiion all the officers of the United States.

Sect. 4. The Preident, Vice-Preident, and all civil officers of the United States, hall be removed from office, on impeachment for and conviction of treaon, bribery, or other high crimes and midemeanors.

Sect. 1. The judicial power of the United States hall be veted in one Supreme Court, and in uch Inferior Courts as the Congres may from time to time ordain and etablih. The Judges, both of the Supreme and Inferior Courts, hall hold their offices during good behaviour; and hall, at tated times, receive for their ervices a compenation, which hall not be diminihed during their continuance in office.

Sect. 2. The judicial power hall extend to all caes in law and equity, ariing under this Contitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which hall be made, under their authority; to all caes affecting Ambaadors, other public Miniters, and Conuls; to all caes of admiralty and maritime juridiction; to controveries to which the United States hall be a party; to controveries between two or more States, between a State and citizens of another State, between citizens of different States, between citizens of the ame State claiming lands under grants of different States, and between a State, or the citizens thereof, and foreign States, citizens or ubjects.

In all caes affecting Ambaadors, other public Miniters and Conuls, and thoe in which a State hall be party, the Supreme Court hall have original juridiction. In all the other caes before mentioned, the Supreme Court hall have appellate juridiction, both as to law and fact, with uch exceptions and under uch regulations as the Congres hall make.

The trial of all crimes, except in caes of impeachment, hall be by jury; and uch trial hall be held in the State where the aid crimes hall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the trial hall be at uch place or places as the Congres may by law have directed.

Sect. 3. Treaon, againt the United States, hall conit only in levying war againt them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No peron hall be convicted of treaon, unles on the tetimony of two witnees to the ame overt act, or on coneion in open Court.

The Congres hall have power to declare the punihment of treaon, but no attainder of treaon hall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture, except during the life of the peron attainted.

Sect. 1. Full faith and credit hall be given in each State to the public acts, records and judicial proceedings, of every other State. And the Congres may by general laws precribe the manner in which uch acts, records and proceedings, hall be proved, and the effect thereof.

Sect. 2. The citizens of each State hall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the everal States.

A peron, charged in any State with treaon, felony, or other crime, who hall flee from jutice, and be found in another State, hall, on demand of the executive authority of the State form which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having juridiction of the crime.

No peron, held to ervice or labour in one State, under the laws thereof, ecaping into another, hall, in conequence of any law or regulation therein, be dicharged from uch ervice or labour; but hall be delivered up, on claim of the party to whom uch ervice or labour may be due.

Sect. 3. New States may be admitted by the Congres into this Union; but no new State hall be formed to erected within the juridiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the conent of the Legilatures of the States concerned, as well as of the Congres.

The Congres hall have power to dipoe of an make all needful rules and regulations, repecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Contitution hall be o contrued, as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular State.

Sect. 4. The United States hall guarantee, to every State in this Union, a republican form of government, and hall protect each of them againt invaion; and, on application of the Legilature, or of the Executive, (when the Legilature cannot be convened) againt dometic violence.

The Congres, whenever two thirds of both Houes hall deem it neceary, hall propoe amendments to this Contitution; or, on the application of the Legilatures of two thirds of the everal States, hall call a Convention, for propoing amendments; which, in either cae, hall be valid, to all intents and purpoes, as part of this Contitution, when ratified by the Legilatures of three fourths of the everal States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be propoed by the Congres: Provided, that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thouand eight hundred and eight hall in any manner affect the firt and fourth claues, in the ninth ection of the firt article; and that no State, without its conent, hall be deprived of its equal uffrage in the Senate.

All debts contracted, and engagements entered into, before the adoption of this Contitution, hall be as valid againt the United States under this Contitution, as under the Confederation.

This Contitution, and the laws of the United States which hall be made in puruance thereof, and all treaties made, or which hall be made, under the authority of the United States, hall be the upreme law of the land; and the Judges, in every State, hall be bound thereby; any thing in the contitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithtanding.

The Senators and Repreentatives before mentioned, and the members of the everal State Legilatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the everal States, hall be bound by oath or affirmation to upport this Contitution; but no religious tet hall ever be required as a qualification to any office, or public trut, under the United States.

The ratification of the Conventions of Nine States hall be ufficient for the etablihment of this Contitution, between the States o ratifying the ame.

''Done in Convention, by the unanimous conent of the States preent, the eventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thouand even hundred and eighty-even, and of the Independence of the United States of America the twelfth. In witnes whereof, we have hereunto ubcribed our names.''

GEORGE WASHINGTON, Preident,

New-Hamphire. John Langdon, Nicholas Gilman.

Maachuetts. Nathaniel Gorham, Rufus King.

Connecticut. William Samuel Johnon, Roger Sherman.

New-York. Alexander Hamilton.

New-Jerey. William Livington, David Brearley, William Pateron, Jonathan Dayton.

Pennylvania. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Mifflin, Robert Morris, George Clymer, Thomas Fitzimons, Jared Ingeroll, James Wilon, Gouverneur Morris.

Delaware. George Read, Gunning Bedford, jun. John Dickenon, Richard Baett, Jacob Broom.

Maryland. James M'Henry, Daniel of St. Tho. Jenifer, Daniel Carrol.

Virginia. John Blair, James Madion, jun.

North-Carolina. William Blount, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Hugh Williamon.

South-Carolina. John Rutledge, Charles Coteworth Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, Pierce Butler.

Georgia. William Few, Abraham Baldwin.

Attet,

In, Monday, September 17th, 1787.

The States of New-Hamphire, Maachuetts, Connecticut, Mr. Hamilton from New-York, New-Jerey, Pennylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia.

Reolved,

T the preceding Contitution be laid before the United States in Congres aembled, and that it is the opinion of this Convention, that it hould afterwards be ubmitted to a Convention of Delegates, choen in each State by the People thereof, under the recommendation of its Legilature, for their aent and ratification; and that each Convention aenting to and ratifying the ame, hould give notice thereof to the United States in Congres aembled.

Reolved, That it is the opinion of this Convention, That as oon as the Conventions of Nine States hall have ratified this Contitution, the United States in Congres aembled hould fix a day on which Electors hould be appointed by the States which hall have ratified the ame, and a day on which the Electors hould aemble to vote for the Preident, and the time and place for commencing proceedings under this Contitution: That after uch publication the Electors hould be appointed, and the Senators and Repreentatives elected:

That the Electors hould meet on the day fixed for the election of the Preident, and hould tranmit their votes, certified, igned, ealed and directed, as the Contitution requires, to the Secretary of the United States in Congres aembled: That the Senators and Repreentatives hould convene at the time and place aigned: That the Senators hould appoint a Preident of the Senate, for the ole purpoe of receiving, opening and counting the votes for Preident; and that, after he hall be choe, the Congres, together with the Preident, hould without delay proceed to execute this Contitution.

GEORGE WASHINGTON, Preident. , Sec'ry.

His Excellency the Preident of Congres.

Preent, New-Hamphire, Maachuetts, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jerey, Pennylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina and Georgia, and from Maryland Mr. Ros.

Congres having received the report of the Convention lately aembled in Philadelphia,

Reolved, unanimouly, That the aid report, with the reolutions and letter accompanying the ame, be tranmitted to the everal Legilatures, in order to be ubmitted to a Convention of Delegates, choen in each State by the People thereof, in conformity to the reolves of the Convention made and provided in that cae.

N, Sec'ry.

State of Rhode-Iland and Providence Plantations.

In, October Seion, 1787.

T is Voted and Reolved, That the Report of the Convention, lately held at Philadelphia, propoing a new Contitution for the United States of America, be printed as oon as may be: That the following Number of Copies be ent to the everal Town-Clerks in the State, to be ditributed among the Inhabitants, that the Freemen may have an Opportunity of forming their Sentiments of the aid propoed Contitution, to wit: For Newport 10, Portmouth 25, Middletown 15, New-Shoreham 15, Jametown 16, Tiverton 40, Little-Compton 36, Providence 10, Smithfield 75, Scituate 55, Foter 55, Gloceter 60, Cumberland 40, Cranton 50, Johnton 30, North-Providence 20, Weterly 31, North-Kingtown 50, South-Kingtown 100, Charletown 25, Richmond 25, Exeter 31, Hopkinton 30, Britol 20, Warren 10, Barrington 10, Warwick 56, Eat-Greenwich 25, Wet-Greenwich 22, and Coventry 30.

Witnes,, Sec'ry.


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