The Essentials of American Constitutional Law

163. “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.”[45...

96. The people of the United States, like other sovereignties, possess not only legislative and executive functions, but also judicial. The possession of these three powers by s...

49. The power to regulate commerce belongs to sovereignty. By the Constitution Congress is empowered “to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, an...

134. The government of the United States, as also that of each State, is a government of limited powers. In our day we speak of either government as one of _limitations_; in the...

149. The people of the several States, and the people of the United States, have delegated powers to the governments which they have respectively created. The powers thus delega...

25. The powers of Congress, whether expressed or implied, are powers incident to sovereignty, being essential to the existence of the government which sovereignty has created. T...

120. The States comprising the Union possess equal powers and are subject to the same limitations. This means, in brief, that they have, respectively, the same jurisdiction. The...

1. The supreme law of the land is the Constitution, and acts of Congress and treaties made under its authority. By this supreme law the judges in every State are bound, “anythin...

13. The organization of the government of the United States reflects the original and supreme will of the people as they have seen fit to assign to different departments of that...

70. The supreme law of the land provides that no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts.[184] A contract is an agreement between competent persons to do...

84. The executive power of the United States is vested in a President. The executive is single,—that is, one person. He possesses all the executive powers which the sovereign,—t...

40. In our system of government [observes the Supreme Court], it is oftentimes difficult to fix the true boundary between the two systems, State and federal [and, adopting the w...