Treaties. Until new State is recognized courts must consider the former
situation as remaining....
Congress may impose special duties on a judge under a treaty.....
Power to adjust claims under a treaty may be conferred on Secretary
of Treasury.___.
The construction of treaties is the peculiar province of the judiciary..
Effect of admission on Territory as State on Indian treaties...
Later statute or treaty supersedes prior treaty or statute_____
Treaties made by the United States are binding within the territorial
limits of all States.....
Trial by jury. All crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be tried
by jury....
Such trial shall be held in the State within which the crime shall have
been committed___
But when not committed within a State, the trial shall be at such place
as Congress may by law have directed..
In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall have a speedy and public_
Suits at common law, when the amount exceeds twenty dollars, shall
be by----
Trial, judgment, and punishment according to law. Judgment in cases of
impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from and
disqualification for office; but the party convicted shall nevertheless
be liable and subject to indictment..
Tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court. Congress shall have power to
constitute....
Troops or ships of war in time of peace without the consent of Congress.
No State shall keep---.
Trust and profit under the United States shall be an elector for President and
Vice President. No Senator, Representative, or person holding
any office of..........
Two-thirds. A bill returned by the President with his objections may be
repassed by each House by a vote of____
Two-thirds, may expel a member. Each house with the concurrence of...
Two-thirds, may remove the disabilities imposed by the third section of the
fourteenth amendment. Congress, by a vote of___
Two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary. Congress shall propose
amendments to the Constitution whenever..
Two-thirds of the legislatures of the several States. Congress shall call a
convention for proposing amendments to the Constitution on the
application of............
Two-thirds of the members present. No person shall be convicted on im-
peachment without the concurrence of -----
Two-thirds of the Senators present concur. The President shall have power,
by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties,
provided..
Two-thirds of the States. When the choice of a President shall devolve on
the House of Representatives, a quorum shall consist of a member or
members from............
Two-thirds of the whole number of Senators. A quorum of the Senate, when
choosing a Vice President, shall consist of..
Two years. Appropriations for raising and supporting armies shall not be
for a longer term than___
Unconstitutional legislation. State law requiring interurban railroads to
supply separate accommodations for white and colored passengers.
Act of Congress re membership in labor union...
Act of Congress of March 4, 1913, giving the Department of Agricul-
ture regulatory power over migratory birds, held invalid..........
Act of Congress of March 2, 1917, re sale of oil and gas, held invalid
except in District of Columbia..
Unconstitutional legislation. Act of Congress of 1870, known as the trade-
mark act, held invalid under the commerce clause.----
Act of Congress known as the child labor law can not be sustained on
the theory that Congress has power to control interstate com-
merce in child-made goods____
Act of Congress imposing a tax on child-labor-made goods held in-
valid.....
State law authorizing issuance of free passes in payment for printing
and advertising held invalid...
State statute attempting to prohibit discrimination in interstate
transportation held invalid....
State statute requiring railroads to offer mileage books for sale at a
stipulated price held invalid.............
State statute which penalizes a carrier which refuses to receive freight
for transportation is invalid..
An ordinance requiring an express company to take out local licenses
for transacting interstate business is an unconstitutional burden on
interstate commerce..
State statute authorizing the recovery of a penalty for delay in giving
notice to a consignee of the arrival of freight at destination is in-
valid..
State statute prohibiting transportation of natural gas by foreign
corporation held invalid
State statute prohibiting a certain class of persons from entering the
State invalid under the commerce clause...
State statute requiring foreign corporations to file statements held
unconstitutional...
State tax imposed upon the business of selling goods in foreign com-
merce is unconstitutional_____
State taxation of railroads on track mileage basis held invalid................
State tax on property of interstate carrier outside the State held in-
valid.
State tax purporting to be for carrying on express business held invalid.
State tax based on all franchises of a railroad company, including
franchises granted by United States held invalid...
State law applicable to interstate and intrastate commerce which im-
poses fees in excess of cost of inspection, imposes tax, and is void..
State capitation tax upon every person leaving the State or passing
through it by railroad, held void when its operation would em-
barass the National Government...
State privilege tax upon the business of selling gasoline in tank cars
is invalid....
State tax applied to an individual within the State selling the goods
of a nonresident principal is a tax upon interstate commerce...----
State regulation of railroad stops held unconstitutional obstruction
of the mails.....
Trade-mark act of 1870 held unconstitutional
State labor law providing that no employees shall be required or per-
mitted to work in bakeries more than ten hours a day, held uncon-
stitutional..
State tax on bills of lading of foreign articles held tax on imports....
The Supreme Court has the power to declare an act of Congress to be
repugnant to the Constitution and therefore invalid...
United States Supreme Court has no jurisdiction to determine that any
State law contrary to State constitution is void-----
Right of Government to appeal without power to set aside verdiet.
President can not be restrained from carrying into effect an act of
Congress alleged to be unconstitutional...
Right and duty of the Supreme Court to declare acts of Congress un-
constitutional..
Unconstitutional legislation. Right to declare an act of Congress uncon-
stitutional can only be exercised when a proper case between oppos-
ing parties is submitted for determination_..
House resolution authorizing investigation of affairs of a debtor of the
United States held invalid..
Act of June 10, 1922, purporting to exclude from the jurisdiction of
admiralty courts certain cases within the purview of State work-
men's compensation laws held invalid
State statute canceling license of foreign corporation when it attempts
to assert its right to remove a cause to a Federal court held invalid_
Act of Congress authorizing Supreme Court to issue writs of man-
damus purported to extend jurisdiction to cases not named in Con-
stitution.
Act of Congress dispensing with jury in prosecutions by information
in the District of Columbia police court held invalid____
Clayton Act held unconstitutional as encroachment on judicial power
in giving jury trial to persons charged with contempt----
Act of Congress prohibiting conspiracies to deprive any person of rights
secured by State laws held invalid.......
State statute requiring nonresidents to pay license fee higher than
residents held invalid...
State statute giving citizen creditors priority over nonresident
creditors held invalid..
Act of Congress for the protection of migratory birds held invalid..
No act of Congress is of any validity which does not rest on authority
conferred by the Constitution_-_-
In every case the act of Congress or the treaty is supreme, and the
law of the State though enacted in the exercise of powers not con-
troverted, must yield to it..
Act of Congress providing for punishment of "all suspicious persons'
held invalid...
Act of Congress of 1893 depriving witnesses of their right to refuse
to answer held invalid_.__.
Provision in Alaska Code that in trials for misdemeanors six persons
should constitute a legal jury held invalid....
Act of Congress of May 5, 1892, providing for the deportation of
aliens illegally within the United States, held repugnant to the
sixth amendment in that it did not specifically provide for a
judicial trial____.
Food control act of August 10, 1917, as amended October 22, 1919,
penalizing the making of sales of necessaries at unreasonable prices
sets up no ascertainable standard of guilt, and is invalid..........
Act of Congress of March 1, 1875, declaring that the judgment of
conviction against the principal felons shall be conclusive evidence
in a prosecution against the receiver of stolen goods, is in violation
of the sixth amendment.___
Act of Congress of March 3, 1863, providing for removal to United
States circuit courts of cases brought in State courts against Fed-
eral officers for arrests, the circuit court to try the case as though
it had been originally brought there held invalid__
State statute making it a penal offense where a person, who has con-
tracted to labor for or serve another for any given time in the
cultivation of land, leaves or abandons the contract held invalid..
State statute which results in involuntary servitude or slavery held
unconstitutional___
Act of Congress declaring that all persons regardless of race or color
are entitled to equal enjoyment of facilities of inns, public con-
veyances, etc., and prescribing penalty for violation held invalid..
Compulsory arbitration attempted under the Kansas industrial rela-
tions act, held not justified......
Unconstitutional legislation. An ordinance forbidding colored persons to
occupy houses in blocks where the greater number of houses are
occupied by white persons, held unconstitutional....
When a person has acquired title to property with the assurance that
his easements were secured by contract, such rights are property
rights within the meaning of the Constitution__.
Act of Congress punishing any two or more persons conspiring to
deprive any person of the equal protection of the laws was not
authorized by the fourteenth amendment_ _ _ _ _
Act of Congress making it a felony to harbor an alien prostitute held
an encroachment on the State police power _ _ _.
Act of Congress making criminal the hindrance by individuals of the
right of suffrage guaranteed by the fifteenth amendment, which ap-
plies only to action by the United States or the several States held
invalid ____
List of acts of Congress declared unconstitutional by Federal Supreme
Court...
Union. To establish a more perfect...
The President shall, from time to time, give to Congress informa-
tion of the state of the_‒‒‒‒
New States may be admitted by Congress into this...
But no new States shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction
of another State___.
United States. Cases in which the United States is a party...
Unreasonable searches and seizures. The people shall be secured in their
persons, houses, papers, and effects against...
And no warrants shall be issued but upon probable cause, supported
by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be
searched and the persons or things to be seized___
Use without just compensation. Private property shall not be taken for
public___
Useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the
exclusive right to their writings and inventions. Congress shall
have power to promote the progress of science and the.
Unusual punishments inflicted. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor
excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and....
Vacancies happening in the representation of a State. The executive
thereof shall issue writs of election to fill..
Happening in the Senate in the recess of the legislature of a State.
How filled. (See Seventeenth amendment, p. 747)...
That happened during the recess of the Senate, by granting commis-
sions which shall expire at the end of the next session. The Presi-
dent shall have power to fill..
Vaccination. State may compel school children to be vaccinated_____.
Laws requiring vaccination of children as a condition of their attend-
ance on public schools held valid under equality clause_____
Vagrants. Act of Congress providing for punishment of "all suspicious
persons" held invalid..
Validity of the public debt incurred in suppressing insurrection against
the United States, including debt for pensions and bounties, shall
not be questioned...
Valuation. Section 19a of the act to regulate commerce directs to com-
mission to value the properties of common carriers...
Verdicts. The statute may forbid the setting aside of a verdict as being
against the weight of evidence, without depriving the accused of
his rights..
Vessels. A State may tax ocean-going vessels as property at the domicile
of the owner when it does not appear that such vessels have ac-
quired an actual situs elsewhere...
Bound to or from the ports of one State shalt not be obliged
to enter, clear, or pay duties in another State.
Vested rights. A State law devesting vested rights violates no constitu-
tional provision where it does not impair the obligation of a
contract
The rights of beneficiary under war risk insurance act..
Veto of a bill by the President. Proceedings of the two Houses upon the.
Veto power. The Supreme Court has no veto power on congressional
Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate...
He shall have no vote unless the Senate be equally divided..........
The Senate shall elect a President pro tempore in the absence of the
He shall be chosen for the term of four years...
The number and the manner of appointing electors for President and.
In case of the removal, death, resignation, or inability of the Presi-
dent, the powers and duties of his office shall devolve on the_____
Congress may provide by law for the case of the removal, death, resig-
nation, or inability both of the President and.....
On impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery, and other
high crimes and misdemeanors shall be removed from office. The.
The manner of choosing the. The electors shall meet in their re-
spective States and vote by ballot for President and Vice President,
one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same State
with themselves___
The electors shall name, in distinct ballots, the person voted for as
Vice President___
They shall make distinct lists of the persons voted for as Vice Presi-
dent, which lists they shall sign and certify, and send sealed to the
seat of government, directed to the President of the Senate.-----
The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and
House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes
shall then be counted...
The person having the greatest number of votes shall be Vice Presi-
dent, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors.
If no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on
the list the Senate shall choose the Vice President.....
A quorum for this purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole
number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be
necessary to a choice......
But if the House shall make no choice of a President before the 4th
of March next following, then the Vice President shall act as Presi-
dent, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability
of the President____.
No person constitutionally ineligible as President shall be eligible as
Violence. The United States shall guarantee to every State a republican
form of government, and shall protect each State against invasion
and domestic....
Virginia entitled to ten representatives in the First Congress.
The Vice President, unless the Senate be equally divided, shall have
Vote of two-thirds. Each House may expel a member by a..
A bill vetoed by the President may be repassed in each House by a..
No person shall be convicted on an impeachment except by a‒‒‒‒‒‒
Whenever both Houses shall deem it necessary, Congress may pro-
pose amendments to the Constitution by a..
The President may make treaties, with the advice and consent of
the Senate by a..
Disabilities incurred by participation in insurrection or rebellion may
be relieved by Congress by a..
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