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States, prohibited from-

Passing bills of attainder, ex post facto laws or laws impairing contracts.
Granting titles of nobility....

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Laying impost, or duties, on imports and exports for their own use..

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Laying duties on tonnage without the consent of Congress.

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Keeping troops or ships of war in time of peace... - -

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Entering into any contract or agreement with another state, or a foreign power.

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Engaging in war, unless invaded, or in imminent danger..

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States, new, may be admitted into the Union.......

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States, may be formed within the jurisdiction of others, or by the junction of two or more, with
the consent of Congress and the legislatures concerned..

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Judges of, bound to consider the treaties, the constitution, and the laws under it, as supreme..
Majority of all, necessary to the choice of president.

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Each to be guaranteed a republican form of government, protected against invasion, and
secured upon application against domestic violence.

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Tax, capitation, or direct, shall be laid only in proportion to census.

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On incomes, amendment Article XVI..

On exports from a state prohibited

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Taxes, direct, shall be apportioned according to representation.

Territory, or property belonging to the United States, Congress may make rules concerning.
Tests, religious, shall not be required..

Titles. See Nobility

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Title from foreign states. See Presents

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Treason defined

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Two witnesses, or confession, necessary for conviction..

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Punishment of, may be prescribed by Congress, with one limitation..

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Treason, or other crime, persons charged with in one state, fleeing into another, shall on demand
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Vacancies, in office happening during the recess of the senate..

In representation in senate, how filled, amendment Article XVII..

Vessels to enter, clear and pay duties in the states in which they arrive, or from which they depart.. 431
Vice-president of the United States-

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Warrants for searches and seizures, when and how they shall issue, 4th amendment.
Witness in criminal cases, no one compelled to be against himself, 5th amendment..
Woman suffrage, amendment Article XIX..

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15

CONSTITUTION

OF THE

STATE OF NEVADA

Constitution of the State of Nevada

[As amended up to and including November 5, 1918]

PRELIMINARY ACTION

WHEREAS, The act of Congress approved March twenty- Preamble first, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-four, "To enable the people of the Territory of Nevada to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states," requires that the members of the convention for framing said constitution shall, after organization, on behalf of the people of said. territory, adopt the constitution of the United States; therefore be it

States

2. Resolved, That the members of this convention, elected United by the authority of the aforesaid enabling act of Congress, as constitution assembled in Carson City, the capital of said Territory of adopted Nevada, and immediately subsequent to its organization, do adopt, on behalf of the people of said territory, the constitution of the United States.

ORDINANCE

made

3. In obedience to the requirements of an act of the Con- Ordinance gress of the United States, approved March twenty-first, irrevocable A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-four, to enable the people of Nevada to form a constitution and state government, this convention, elected and convened in obedience to said enabling act, do ordain as follows, and this ordinance shall be irrevocable, without the consent of the United States and the people of the State of Nevada:

First-That there shall be in this state neither slavery nor slavery involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment for inhibited crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.

worship

Second-That perfect toleration of religious sentiment Freedom of shall be secured, and no inhabitant of said state shall ever secured be molested, in person or property, on account of his or her mode of religious worship.

public land

Third-That the people inhabiting said territory do agree, Right to and declare, that they forever disclaim all right and title to disclaimed the unappropriated public lands lying within said territory, and that the same shall be and remain at the sole and entire disposition of the United States; and that lands belonging to citizens of the United States, residing without the said state, shall never be taxed higher than the land belonging to residents thereof; and that no taxes shall be imposed by said

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