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This publication supplements Senate Document 112–9, The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation—it should be inserted into the pocket on the inside back cover of that volume 115th Congress DOCUMENT " SENATE ! 2d Session No. 115–8 THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION 2018 SUPPLEMENT ANALYSIS OF CASES DECIDED BY THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES TO JUNE 28, 2018 PREPARED BY THE CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS VALERIE BRANNON CAITLAIN DEVEREAUX LEWIS ANDREW NOLAN ATTORNEY EDITORS GEORGIA GKOULGKOUNTINA MEGHAN TOTTEN LEGAL EDITORS U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE 31–344 WASHINGTON : 2018 Online Version: www.gpo.gov/constitutionannotated For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512-1800; DC area (202) 512-1800 Fax: (202) 512-2104 Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC 20402–0001 ISBN 978-0-16-094937-1 31-344_CX.pdf 1 10/25/18 11:49 AM 31-344_CX.pdf 2 10/25/18 11:49 AM CONTENTS CONTENTS ............................................................................................................... 1 ARTICLE I ................................................................................................................ 2 ARTICLE II .............................................................................................................19 ARTICLE III ...........................................................................................................29 ARTICLE IV ............................................................................................................54 ARTICLE VI ............................................................................................................56 FIRST AMENDMENT ...........................................................................................60 SECOND AMENDMENT ......................................................................................85 FOURTH AMENDMENT ......................................................................................87 FIFTH AMENDMENT ....................................................................................... 102 SIXTH AMENDMENT ........................................................................................ 113 SEVENTH AMENDMENT ................................................................................. 123 EIGHTH AMENDMENT .................................................................................... 124 TENTH AMENDMENT ...................................................................................... 133 ELEVENTH AMENDMENT .............................................................................. 135 FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT ....................................................................... 136 FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT ............................................................................ 165 ACTS OF CONGRESS HELD UNCONSTITUTIONAL IN WHOLE OR IN PART BY THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES ............... 170 STATE CONSTITUTIONAL AND STATUTORY PROVISIONS AND MUNICIPAL ORDINANCES HELD UNCONSTITUTIONAL OR HELD TO BE PREEMPTED BY FEDERAL LAW ........................................................... 174 SUPREME COURT DECISIONS OVERRULED BY SUBSEQUENT DECISION ............................................................................................................ 179 TABLE OF CASES .............................................................................................. 180 31-344_CX.pdf 3 10/25/18 11:49 AM ARTICLE I Table of Contents [P. 58, in the subheading “Clause 1,” following the heading “Section 4. Elections,” delete “Congressional Power to Regulate” and substitute with:] Times, Places, and Manner of Elections Section 2. House of Representatives Clause 1. Congressional Districting [P. 112, delete n.275:] [P. 114, at the end of n.297, add:] See also North Carolina v. Covington, 585 U.S. ___, No. 17-1364, slip op. at 9–10 (2018) (per curiam) (“The District Court’s decision to override the legislature’s remedial map . was clear error. ‘[S]tate legislatures have primary jurisdiction over legislative reapportionment,’ and a legislature’s ‘freedom of choice to devise substitutes for an apportionment plan found unconstitutional, either as a whole or in part, should not be restricted beyond the clear commands’ of federal law. A district court is ‘not free . to disregard the political program of’ a state legislature on other bases.” (quoting Weiser, 412 U.S. at 795; Burns v. Richardson, 384 U.S. 73, 85 (1966); Upham v. Seamon, 456 U.S. 37, 43 (1982) (per curiam))). Section 4. Elections Clause 1. Congressional Power to Regulate [P. 127, delete the heading “LEGISLATION PROTECTING ELECTORAL PROCESS” and substitute with:] REGULATION BY CONGRESS [P. 130, at the end of the second paragraph, following n.382, add new section:] REGULATION BY THE STATE LEGISLATURE By its terms, Article I, Section 4, Clause 1, also contemplates the times, places, and manner of holding elections being “prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof,” subject to alteration by Congress (except as to the place of choosing Senators). However, the Court did not have occasion to address what constitutes regulation by a state “Legislature” for purposes of the Elections Clause until its 2015 decision in Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission.1 There, the Court rejected the Arizona legislature’s challenge to the validity of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission (AIRC) and 1 576 U.S. ___, No. 13-1314, slip op. (2015). 31-344_CX.pdf 4 10/25/18 11:49 AM ARTICLE I—LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT AIRC’s 2012 map of congressional districts.2 The Commission had been established by a 2000 ballot initiative, which removed redistricting authority from the legislature and vested it in the AIRC.3 The Legislature asserted that this arrangement violated the Elections Clause because the Clause contemplates regulation by a state “Legislature” and “Legislature” means the state’s representative assembly.4 The Court disagreed and held that Arizona’s use of an independent commission to establish congressional districts is permissible because the Elections Clause uses the word “Legislature” to describe “the power that makes laws,” a term that is broad enough to encompass the power provided by the Arizona constitution for the people to make laws through ballot initiatives.5 In so finding, the Court noted that the word “Legislature” has been construed in various ways depending upon the constitutional provision in which it is used, and its meaning depends upon the function that the entity denominated as the “Legislature” is called upon to exercise in a specific context.6 Here, in the context of the Elections Clause, the Court found that the function of the “Legislature” was lawmaking and that this function could be performed by the people of Arizona via an initiative consistent with state law.7 The Court also pointed to dictionary definitions from the time of the Framers;8 the Framers’ intent in adopting the Elections Clause;9 the “harmony” between the initiative process and the Constitution’s “conception of the people as the font of governmental power;”10 and the practical consequences of invalidating the Arizona initiative.11 [P. 130, delete the first sentence of the third paragraph currently on this page, “State authority to regulate the ‘times, places, and manner’ of holding congressional elections has also been tested . necessary in order to enforce the fundamental rights involved.” and substitute with:] 2 Id. at 2–3. 3 Id. 4 Id. at 2. 5 Id. at 18. The Court also found that the use of the commission was permissible under 2 U.S.C. § 2a(c), a statutory provision that the Court construed as safeguarding to “each state full authority to employ in the creation of congressional districts its own laws and regulations.” Id. at 19. 6 Id. at 18. 7 Id. 8 Id. at 24 (noting that “dictionaries, even those in circulation during the founding era, capaciously define the word ‘legislature’” to include as “[t]he power that makes laws” and “the Authority of making laws”). 9 Id. at 25 (“The dominant purpose of the Elections Clause . was to empower Congress to override state election rules, not to restrict the way States enact legislation. [T]he Clause ‘was the Framers’ insurance against the possibility that a State would refuse to provide for the election of representatives to the Federal Congress.’”). 10 Id. at 30 (“The Framers may not have imagined the modern initiative process in which the people of a State exercise legislative power coextensive with the authority of an institutional legislature. But the invention of the initiative was in full harmony with the Constitution’s conception of the people as the font of governmental power.”). 11 Id. at 31, 33 (noting that it would be “perverse” to interpret the term “Legislature” to exclude the initiative, because the initiative is intended to check legislators’ ability to determine the boundaries of the districts in which they run, and that a contrary ruling would invalidate a number of other state provisions regarding initiatives and referendums). 3 31-344_CX.pdf 5 10/25/18 11:49 AM ARTICLE I—LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT State authority to regulate the times, places, and manner of holding congressional elections has been described by the Court as “embrac[ing] authority to provide a complete code for congressional elections . ; in short, to enact the numerous requirements as to procedure and
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