[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 4 (Tuesday, January 15, 2013)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E35]
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                     EXCERPTS FROM THE CONSTITUTION

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                        HON. SHEILA JACKSON LEE

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, January 15, 2013

  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I submit the following excerpts from 
the Constitution.


                               article i

       ``Section 8. The Congress shall have Power To lay and 
     collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts 
     and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the 
     United States . . .''


                              amendment i

       ``Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of 
     religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or 
     abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the 
     right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition 
     the Government for a redress of grievances.''


                             amendment xiii

       ``Section 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 
     any place subject to their jurisdiction.
       ``Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this 
     article by appropriate legislation.''


                    the 14th amendment xiv section 1

       ``All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and 
     subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the 
     United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State 
     shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the 
     privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; 
     nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or 
     property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person 
     within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.''