Popular Names of Sections and Clauses
Certain parts of the U.S. Constitution have popular names by which they are referred from time to time. This page lists those popular names and provides links back to the appropriate section of the Constitution.
If you have come across a popular name not listed here, please let me know.
The Admissions ClauseThe Advice and Consent ClauseThe Anti-Title AmendmentThe Appointments ClauseThe Arisings ClauseThe Bear Arms AmendmentThe Bill of RightsThe Civil War AmendmentsThe Coefficient ClauseThe Comity ClauseThe Commerce ClauseThe Compact ClauseThe Confrontation ClauseThe Contract ClauseThe Copyright ClauseThe Cruel and Unusual Punishment ClauseThe Disestablishment ClauseThe Diversity (of Citizenship) ClauseThe Double Jeopardy ClauseThe Due Process ClauseThe 1808 ClauseThe Elastic ClauseThe Emoluments ClauseThe Enclave ClauseThe Equal Protection ClauseThe ERA - Equal Rights AmendmentThe Establishment ClauseThe Excepting ClauseThe Exceptions ClauseThe Export ClauseThe Free Exercise ClauseThe Freedom of the Press ClauseThe Freedom of Speech ClauseThe Fugitive Slave ClauseThe Full Faith and Credit ClauseThe General Welfare ClauseThe Guarantee ClauseThe Impeachment ClausesThe Implied Powers ClauseThe Import/Export ClauseThe Income Tax AmendmentThe Incompatibility ClauseThe Indian Commerce ClauseThe Ineligibility ClauseThe Ineligibility and Incompatibility ClauseThe Interstate Commerce ClauseThe Just Compensation ClauseThe Liberty ClauseThe Loyalty ClauseThe Migration or Importation ClauseThe Naturalization ClauseThe Necessary and Proper ClauseThe Orders, Resolutions, and Votes ClauseThe Origination ClauseThe Presentment ClauseThe Privileges and Immunities ClauseThe Prohibition AmendmentThe Property ClauseThe Qualifications ClauseThe Reconstruction AmendmentsThe Republican Form ClauseThe Reserve ClauseThe Right to Bear Arms AmendmentThe Search and Seizure ClauseThe Slavery AmendmentThe Speech or Debate ClauseThe Speedy Trial ClauseThe Spending ClauseThe Subscription ClauseThe Supremacy ClauseThe Suspension ClauseThe Sweeping ClauseThe Take Care ClauseThe Takings ClauseTANA - The Anti-Nobility AmendmentThe Territorial ClauseThe Three-fifths ClauseThe Tonnage ClauseThe Treaty ClauseThe Trial by Jury ClauseThe Vesting ClausesThe War ClauseWe the PeopleThe Women's Suffrage Amendment