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CRS and Annotated
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Article 2
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Article 3, law. cornell. edu
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Article 4
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Article 5
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Article 6
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Third Amendment
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Fourth Amendment, Cornell University
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Seventh Amendment
* " CRS Annotated Constitution: 9th Amendment " by the Congressional Research Service ( 2000 )
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Eleventh Amendment
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Twelfth Amendment, via Cornell Law School
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Thirteenth Amendment
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Fourteenth Amendment
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Fifteenth Amendment
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Sixteenth Amendment
* CRS Annotated Constitution: 18th Amendment
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Twentieth Amendment
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Twenty first Amendment
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Twenty-second Amendment
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Twenty-fifth Amendment
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Twenty-sixth Amendment

Annotated and Constitution
* Analysis and Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States: Annotated constitution, with descriptions of important cases ( official publication of U. S. Senate )
* Annotated Constitution by the Congressional Research Service of the U. S. Library of Congress ( hyperlinked version published by Cornell University )
* Cornell Law School – Annotated Constitution

Constitution and Sixth
Jury trials in criminal cases were a protected right in the original United States Constitution and the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Amendments of the US Constitution extend the rights to trial by jury to include the right to jury trial for both criminal and civil matters and a grand jury for serious cases.
" The right was expanded with the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which states in part, " In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed.
The Sixth Amendment ( Amendment VI ) to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights which sets forth rights related to criminal prosecutions.
Originally, the Supreme Court held that the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial indicated a right to “ a trial by jury as understood and applied at common law, and includes all the essential elements as they were recognized in this country and England when the Constitution was adopted .” Therefore, it was held that juries had to be composed of twelve persons and that verdicts had to be unanimous, as was customary in England.
Both Article III of the U. S. Constitution and the Sixth Amendment require that criminal cases be tried by a jury, and the Fourteenth Amendment applies this mandate to the states.
Regarding depositions to preserve testimony, the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution establishes a constitutional right of the defendant to be present during the deposition and to cross-examine the witness.
Internationally, it helped influence the Massachusetts Body of Liberties, and is seen as a predecessor to the Third, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
In fact, the Constitution omits all references to the Cultural Revolution and restates Mao Zedong's contributions in accordance with a major historical reassessment produced in June 1981 at the Sixth Plenum of the Eleventh Central Committee, the " Resolution on Some Historical Issues of the Party since the Founding of the People's Republic.
The Sixth Amendment to the Constitution, like the English Habeas Corpus Act of 1679, requires that a suspect must " be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation " and thus enabling a suspect to demand bail if accused of a bailable offense.
" In the event, the Palmer Raids were criticised as unconstitutional by twelve publicly-prominent lawyers, including ( future Supreme Court Justice ) Felix Frankfurter, who published A Report on the Illegal Practices of The United States Department of Justice, documenting systematic violations of the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution via Palmer-authorised “ illegal acts ” and “ wanton violence ”.
The Speedy Trial Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that " n all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy.
In criminal law, Crawford v. Washington, 541 U. S. 36 ( 2004 ), reformulated the standard for determining when the admission of hearsay statements in criminal cases is permitted under the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution.
In the United States, videoconferencing has allowed testimony to be used for an individual who is unable or prefers not to attend the physical legal settings, or would be subjected to severe psychological stress in doing so, however there is a controversy on the use of testimony by foreign or unavailable witnesses via video transmission, regarding the violation of the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment of the U. S. Constitution.
Chief Justice John Marshall, a strong proponent of the powers of the federal government but also a political opponent of Jefferson, ruled that the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution, which allows for these sorts of court orders for criminal defendants, did not provide any exception for the president.
* Sixth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution
For more than 100 years, courts in the United States have held that, according to the United States Constitution, a criminal defendant's right to appear in person at their trial, as a matter of due process, is protected under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Various rights associated with a fair trial are explicitly proclaimed in Article 10 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, and Article 6 of the European Convention of Human Rights, as well as numerous other constitutions and declarations throughout the world.
The Sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland ensured that certain adoption orders would not be found to be unconstitutional because they had not been made by a court.
It was effected by the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution ( Adoption ) Act, 1979 which was approved by referendum on 5 July 1979 and signed into law on the 3 August 1979 of the same year.
* Sixth Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1979 ( Full text at IrishStatuteBook. ie )
* Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution — part of the Bill of Rights.
* Sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland — ensured that certain adoption orders would not be found to be unconstitutional because they had not been made by a court.
* Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights

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