ALPHABETICAL ANALYSIS-Continueȧ. VICE President of the United States. Qualification required as Vice President same as for President of the United States... VICE President. In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, resignation, VICE President shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, VICE President. The lists of votes of electors of President and Vice President shall be directed VICE President. The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President shall be the VOTE. Each Senator shall have one.. VOTE. The Vice President shall have no vote unless the Senate be equally divided.. VOTE. Every vote to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary, (except on a question of adjournment,) shall be presented to the President. (See Resolution.) VOTES in the two Houses of Congress, on passage of any bill, order, resolution or vote, returned WAR. Congress shall have power to make rules ("rules and articles of war") for the government of the land and naval forces. WAR. No State shall, without the consent of Congress, engage in war unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay. WAR. Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.. WAR. No soldier shall be quartered in any house in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law. .......... WAR. No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia when in actual service, in time of war or public danger WARRANTS. No warrants shall issue 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 WASHINGTON, President and deputy from Virginia, signed this Constitution. George. ALPHABETICAL ANALYSIS-Continued. .... WE the people establish this Constitution WEIGHTS and measures. Congress shall have power to fix the standard of weights and mea sures..... WELFARE. Constitution established to promote the general welfare WELFARE. Congress shall have power to promote the general welfare. WILLIAMSON, deputy from North Carolina, signed this Constitution. Hugh WILSON, deputy from Pennsylvania, signed this Constitution. James.. ..... WITNESSES. No person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court .... WITNESS against himself. Nor shall any person be compelled, in any criminal case, to be a witness against himself. WITNESSES against him. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused to be confronted with the witnesses against him WITNESSES in his favor. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor ..... ..... WRITINGS. Exclusive right to writings may be secured by authors for a limited time WRIT of habeas corpus. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it YEAS and nays of the members of either House of Congress, on any question, shall, at the desire of one-fifth of those present, be entered on the Journal. The YEAS and nays. Votes in the two Houses of Congress, on passage of any bill, order, resolution, or vote, returned with objections by the President, shall be taken by yeas and nays ..... 1 7 2-3 7 CHAPTER 2. THE Confederation having given place to the American Union, under the Constitution of the United States, it has been considered unnecessary to insert, in this compilation, the Articles of Confederation, which were agreed to by the Delegates of the thirteen original States, in Congress assembled, on the 15th November, 1777, ratified by eight States, on the 9th July, 1778, and finally ratified by all the States, on the 1st March, 1781. It were out of place to mingle that inefficient form of government with the present approved and successful system, which has stood the test of more than half a century, and which is destined, under Divine Providence, not only to perpetuate the happiness and safety of the people of the United States, but to be the Great Exemplar of Nations, when governments shall, by the natural and just power of man, be brought to their legitimate purposes and uses-to establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to the people. The matter contained in this chapter exhibits the deplorable condition of the finances and credit of the government under the old form, and the incompetency of the Congress of the Confederation to raise a revenue, support the public credit, regulate trade or commerce, or to provide for the wants and safety of the country; and it is intended thereby to show the immediate and prominent causes that led to the abandonment of that inefficient form, and the adoption of the present system of government; and, also, to show the official proceedings by which the change was effected and the present Constitution established. These facts and proceedings may prove a warning against the treasonable suggestions of the evil spirit, whose insidious and alluring temptations are, not unfrequently, directed towards the most ardent and honest citizens, whose zeal in the defence of the supposed interests of a part of the Union might induce them even to go so far as to calculate the value of the Union itself, and of the Constitution. By exhibiting the impotency of the measures adopted by the Old Confederation to provide for the wants and to secure the independence and safety of the people, the perusal of these proceedings will induce a due appreciation of the value of our inestimable Union, so firmly bound together by the conservative and protective principles of our noble Constitution, and will banish from the mind the least idea of a disorganizing tendency, or of relapsing into the enfeebled condition of the General Government before the adoption of the Constitution. The danger of extracting from the edifice one particle of the material which serves to support its magnificent superstructure, is here practically made manifest, and every true-hearted American citizen will firmly resolve, with heart and hand, and sleepless vigilance, to guard the Union, fortified by the Constitution, as the citadel of our liberties-the object of our greatest care, and the consummation of our earthly hope. OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS, AND THE CAUSES WHICH LED TO THE ADOPTION AND RATIFICATION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. It was early discovered by the patriots and statesmen of the Revolution, that a bond of union, to connect the powers and means of the colonies for the common defence, was a measure of absolute necessity; and hence the assemblage of a number of delegates, chosen and appointed by the several colonies and provinces in North America, to meet and hold a Congress in Philadelphia, at the Carpenter's Hall, on Monday, the 5th September, 1774. This Congress continued to act under the powers separately conferred upon the delegates by the respective colonies, until the time arrived when, from their patriotic ardor, the delicacy of their position, and the force of circumstances, a total separation from the mother country became necessary, and they were obliged to assume a noble stand among the nations of the earth. Simultaneously with and consequent upon the Declaration of Independence, a provision for an |