PREAMBLE:
At the time the adoption of the Re-Declaration of Independence 1, 2 ,or 3, the Third Continental Congress, in order to prevent further misconstruction and abuse of the Constitution's powers, expressed a desire that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added to restore its original intent as envisioned by the framers and ratifiers.
SECTION 1:
CLAUSE 1:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or the several States.
CLAUSE 2:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, or the several States, are citizens of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law, which shall abridge the privileges, or immunities of Citizens subject to its jurisdiction; nor shall any State deprive any of its Citizens rights guaranteed by its Constitution.
CLAUSE 3:
No Capitation, or other direct Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.
CLAUSE 4:
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote; with the power reserved to each State, to recall its Senators, or any of them, at any time within a term, and to send others in their stead, for the remainder of that term; and that no State Legislature, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
CLAUSE 5:
The manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof, and the several States for beverage purposes shall not be prohibited.
SECTION 2:
CLAUSE 1:
The second Clause of the eighth Section of the first Article, by its mere omission, shall not be construed to extend to Congress the power to emit bills on the credit of the United States.
CLAUSE 2:
The definition of Commerce in the third Clause of the eighth Section of the first Article shall not be construed as to include manufacture or consumption.
CLAUSE 3:
The eighth Section of the first Article shall not be construed as to allow Congress to delegate powers expressly granted to it, under this Constitution, to any Department, Corporation or Person.
CLAUSE 4:
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Militia of the several States, only when called into the actual service of the United States under the provisions of the eleventh Clause of the eighth Section of the first Article; the Congress shall not have power to declare War, except under the provisions of the fourth Section of the fourth Article.
CLAUSE 5:
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, shall be made in Pursuance thereof under the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution of Laws of any States to the Contrary notwithstanding.
SECTION 3:
CLAUSE 1:
A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the inalienable right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. (Thanks to David Nolan for the stronger language)
CLAUSE 2:
The powers not expressly delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or the people.
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