1. The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.
2. 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.
3. No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
4. No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
5. No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.
6. No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another: nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another.
7. No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.
8. No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
1. Congress may not interfere with the slave trade before 1808.
2. The government may not suspend the right of habeas corpus unless the country is under attack and public safety requires it. (A writ of habeas corpus is a legal order from a judge telling the police to bring a prisoner to court. There, they must either show evidence against him and charge him with a crime or let him go. In some countries, people can be put prison without being charged with a crime. The right of habeas corpus prevents this. The words habeas corpus mean "you may have the body." They begin a Latin sentence that says the prisoner must be brought to court.)
3. Congress may not pass a bill attainder. (This would be a law to punish a person without letting him have a trial.) Congress may not pass an ex post facto law. (Ex post facto means "after the fact." An ex post facto law is passed after an act is committed. It makes that act a crime and punishes people who committed the act before the law was passed. Under this clause, if a law is passed today, it may not be used to punish people for things they did earlier.)
4. Direct taxes have to be the same for each person taxed. People in one state cannot be taxed more than people in another state. (Congress has not ordered many direct taxes. One is the income tax. Amendment 16, added to the Constitution in 1913, has changed this clause somewhat.)
5. No taxes can be put on goods sent out of a state. (Congress cannot use taxes to help one state's trade or hurt another's trade.)
6. The government cannot use trade and tax laws to favor the ports of any state over the ports of another state. Also, ships going from one state to another cannot be taxed.
7. No one can spend money from U.S. Treasury unless a law says that the expense is proper. Accounts of money taken is and paid out muse be published from time to time.
8. The government cannot give anyone a noble title. No government official can accept a job, a salary, or a title from another country unless Congress approves.