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1000 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT XI
ELEVENTH AMENDMENT/SUITS AGAINST STATES/STATE IMMUNITY
977 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION ARTICLE VI
ARTICLE VI/PRIOR DEBTS, NATIONAL SUPREMACY, AND OATHS OF OFFICE/PRIOR DEBTS, NATIONAL SUPREMACY, AND OATHS OF OFFICE/PRIOR DEBTS/NATIONAL SUPREMACY/OATH OF OFFICE
793 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT VIII
EIGHTH AMENDMENT/FURTHER GUARANTEES IN CRIMINAL CASES/EXCESSIVE BAIL/EXCESSIVE FINES/CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENTS
765 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT XIV [A]
FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT/RIGHTS GUARANTEED/PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES OF CITIZENSHIP,/DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION/SECTION 1. RIGHTS GUARANTEED/SECTION 1. RIGHTS GUARANTEED: CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES/SECTION 1. RIGHTS GUARANTEED: PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES/SECTION 1. RIGHTS GUARANTEED: DUE PROCESS OF LAW/SECTION 1. RIGHTS GUARANTEED DUE PROCESS OF LAW/DUE PROCESS OF LAW
755 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION ARTICLE III [14]
ARTICLE III/JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT/ JUDICIAL POWER AND JURISDICTION CASES AND CONTROVERSIES
752 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT IV [F][5] CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION FOURTH AMENDMENT
FOURTH AMENDMENT/SEARCH AND SEIZURE
720 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION ARTICLE V
ARTICLE V/MODE OF AMENDMENT/MODE OF AMENDMENT/AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION
688 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION ARTICLE I [60]
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676 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT XIV [I]
FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT/SECTION 1. RIGHTS GUARANTEED/THE NEW EQUAL PROTECTION/SECTION 2. APPORTIONMENT OF REPRESENTATION/APPORTIONMENT OF REPRESENTATION/SECTIONS 3 AND 4. DISQUALIFICATION AND PUBLIC DEBT/DISQUALIFICATION AND PUBLIC DEBT/SECTION 5. ENFORCEMENT/ENFORCEMENT
631 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION ARTICLE III [6]
JUDICIAL POWER
628 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT V [A][10]
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619 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION ARTICLE III [16]
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587 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT VI [F][3] CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION SIXTH AMENDMENT
RIGHT TO TRIAL BY IMPARTIAL JURY
580 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT VII [F][3]
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580 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION ARTICLE II [31]
ARTICLE II/EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT/LEGISLATIVE ROLE OF THE PRESIDENT/THE CONDUCT OF FOREIGN RELATIONS
577 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION ARTICLE III [46]
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574 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION ARTICLE III [7]
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561 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION ARTICLE I [2]
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555 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT V [B][4]
FIFTH AMENDMENT/RIGHTS OF PERSONS/NATIONAL EMINENT DOMAIN POWER
542 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION ARTICLE V [2]
Ratification. In 1992, the Nation apparently ratified a long quiescent 27th Amendment, to the surprise of just about everyone. Whether the new Amendment has any effect in the area of its subject matter, the effective date of congressional pay raises, the adoption of this provision has unsettled much of the supposed learning on the issue of the timeliness of pendency of constitutional amendments.

It has been accepted that Congress may, in proposing an amendment, set a reasonable time limit for its ratification. Beginning with the Eighteenth Amendment, save for the Nineteenth, Congress has included language in all proposals stating that the amendment should be inoperative unless ratified within seven

517 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT V [A][2]
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
498 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION ARTICLE III [36]
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450 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT XIV [C][10]
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447 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT I [C][10]
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441 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION ARTICLE I [49]
THE COMMERCE CLAUSE AS A RESTRAINT ON STATE POWERS
434 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION ARTICLE V [3]
Authentication and Proclamation. Formerly, official notice from a state legislature, duly authenticated, that it had ratified a proposed amendment went to the Secretary of State, upon whom it was binding, being certified by his proclamation, [was] conclusive upon the courts as against any objection which might be subsequently raised as to the regularity of the legislative procedure by which ratification was brought about.
428 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION ARTICLE II [14]
ARTICLE II/EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT/SECTION 2. POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE PRESIDENT/THE TREATY MAKING POWER
419 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT XIV [G][8]
FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT/SECTION 1. RIGHTS GUARANTEED/EQUAL PROTECTION AND RACE
409 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION ARTICLE II [18] CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION ARTICLE II
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406 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION ARTICLE II [41]
PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY FROM JUDICIAL DIRECTION
396 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION ARTICLE I [22]
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390 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION ARTICLE I [8]
ARTICLE I/LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT/POWERS DENIED TO CONGRESS
387 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT I [C][8]
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387 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT I [B][5]
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355 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT V [B][1]
DUE PROCESS
333 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT I [C][5]
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333 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT I [D][6]
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314 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT I [E][5]
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301 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION ARTICLE II [21]
INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS WITHOUT SENATE APPROVAL
288 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT XIV [E][7]
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288 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT I [C][6]
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260 CRS/LII ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION ARTICLE II [8]
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