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Article 6 shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitu-
All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the tion; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification
to any Office of public Trust under the United States.
Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United
States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
This Constitution, and Laws of the United States which shall Article 7
be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be suf-
shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be ficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the
the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall States so ratifying the Same.
be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States
State to the Contrary notwithstanding. present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the
Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and Ju- Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth* IN
dicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, WITNESS whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names,

George Washington President and Deputy from Virginia
Delaware South Carolina New York
George Read John Rutledge Alexander Hamilton
Gunning Bedford, Jr. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney New Jersey
John Dickinson Charles Pinckney William Livingston
Richard Bassett Pierce Butler David Brearley
Jacob Broom Georgia William Paterson
Maryland William Few Jonathan Dayton
James McHenry Abraham Baldwin Pennsylvania
Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer New Hampshire Benjamin Franklin
Daniel Carroll John Langdon Thomas Mifflin
Virginia Nicholas Gilman Robert Morris
John Blair Massachusetts George Clymer
James Madison, Jr Nathaniel Gorham Thomas FitzSimons
North Carolina Rufus King Jared Ingersoll
William Blount Connecticut James Wilson
Richard Dobbs Spaight William Samuel Johnson Gouverneur Morris
Hugh Williamson Roger Sherman

Amendments to the be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause,
supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the
Constitution place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Amendment V
Amendment I No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of re- infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a
ligion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces,
freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public
peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a re- danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to
dress of grievances. be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled
in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be de-
Amendment II prived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just
A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free compensation.
State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be
infringed.
Amendment VI
Amendment III In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a
No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and dis-
without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a trict wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district
manner to be prescribed by law. shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed

Amendment IV *The Constitution was submitted on September 17, 1787, by the Consti-
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, tutional Convention, was ratified by the Convention of several states at
and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not various dates up to May 29, 1790, and became effective on March 4, 1789.
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