all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

3. The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

1. Of what does Article VI. consist?

Ans. Of several additional miscellaneous provisions.

2. What is declared with regard to all debts contracted and engagements entered into, before the adoption of the Constitution?

3. What is meant by the Confederation?

Ans. The union of the states prior to the time when the Constitution went into operation.

4. What is declared by the Constitution to be the supreme law of the land?

5. How is this supremacy secured, as far as the judges are concerned?

6. Who are required to be bound by oath or affirmation to support the Constitution?

7. Why are the officers named required to be thus bound by oath?

Ans. Because they are directly concerned in the execution and administration of, or owe obedience to, the Federal Constitution, as the supreme law of the land.

8. What prohibition is made in regard to a religious test?

9. Why is a religious test prohibited ?

Ans. To prevent a union of church and state in the administration of the government.

ARTICLE VII.

The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same.

DONE in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth. In Witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names,

Go WASHINGTON— Presidt and deputy from Virginia

1. What was made necessary for the establishment of the Constitution?

2. If nine states only had ratified the Constitution, how many states would have composed the Union?

3. How many of the thirteen states ratified the Constitution before it went into operation?

Ans-Eleven.

4. Which of the thirteen states did not ratify the Constitution until after it went into operation?

Ans.-North Carolina and Rhode Island.

5. In what year was the Constitution framed?

6. Who was President of the Convention that framed the Constitution?

7. How many deputies or delegates besides Washington, signed the Constitution?

8. Which of the states had no delegate in the Conven. tion ?

Ans.-Rhode Island.

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THE CONSTITUTION.

Proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth article of the original Constitution.

ARTICLE 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.

ARTICLE II.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

ARTICLE III.

No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.