1.  Congress must meet at least once a year.

(Congress consists of the Senate and the House of Representatives.)

2.  One State cannot undo the acts of another.

3.  Congress may admit any number of new States.

4.  One State must respect the laws and legal decisions of another.

5.  Every citizen is guaranteed a speedy trial by jury.

6.  Congress cannot pass a law to punish a crime already committed.

7.  Bills of revenue can originate only in the House of Representatives.

8.  A person committing a crime in one State cannot find refuge in another.

9.  The Constitution forbids excessive bail or cruel punishment.

10.  Treaties with foreign countries are made by the President and ratified by the Senate.

11.  Writing alone does not constitute treason against the United States.  There must be an overt act.

12.  An Act of Congress cannot become law over the vote of the President except by a two-thirds vote of both Houses.

13.  The Territories each send one delegate to Congress, who has the right to debate, but not the right to vote.

14.  An officer of the Government cannot accept any title of nobility, order or gift without the permission of Congress.

15.  Only a natural-born citizen of the United States can become President or Vice-President of the United States.

SELECTION VIII

THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER

1.  Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
   What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming? 
   Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
   O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming;
   And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
   Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there: 
   Oh, say, does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave
   O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

2.  On that shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
   Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
   What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
   As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses? 
   Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
   In full glory reflected now shines in the stream: 
   ’Tis the Star-Spangled Banner; oh, long may it wave
   O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

3.  And where are the foes who so vauntingly swore
   That the havoc of war, and the battle’s confusion,
   A home and a country should leave us no more? 
   Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution. 
   No refuge could save the hireling and slave
   From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave;
   And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph doth wave
   O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.