The Legislative Branch

The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not 

be suspended, 

unless when 

in Cases of Rebellion or 

Invasion the public 

Safety may require it.

No Bill of Attainder or 

ex post facto Law 

shall be passed.

No Capitation, or other direct, 

Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.*

No Tax or Duty 

shall be laid on Articles 

exported 

from any State.

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.

* AMENDMENT XVI
Passed by Congress July 2, 1909. Ratified February 3, 1913 modified Article I, section 8 & 9, of the Constitution.

excerpt:

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. . .  

 No Money shall be drawn 

from the Treasury 

but in 

Consequence 

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 Title of Nobility 

shall be granted by 

the United States: 

And no Person 

holding any Office of Profit 

or Trust under them, 

shall, without the Consent 

of the Congress 

accept of any present, Emolument, Office, 

or Title, 

of any kind whatever, 

from any King, Prince, 

or foreign State. 

  War 

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation 

of Money to that Use 

shall be for a longer 

Term than two Years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws 

of the Union, 

suppress Insurrections 

and repel Invasions;

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;

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 Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;

–And

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper 

for carrying into Execution 

the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by 

this Constitution in the Government of 

the United States, 

or in any Department 

or Officer thereof. 

  (Original language) 

The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.*

AMENDMENT XIV 

Passed by Congress June 13, 1866. Ratified July 9, 1868. 

*Note: Article I, section 2, of the Constitution was modified by section 2 of the 14th amendment.

AMENDMENT XIV 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.

Section 2. 

Voting

Representatives shall be apportioned 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 at 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, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein 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.