About the summaries: the text in serif is the Constitution exactly as written, which is
public record. The blue box above each one is a plain-language explanation written for this page —
it is a paraphrase to help you follow the original, not a legal authority. Courts have spent two
centuries arguing over what several of these clauses mean, and a one-paragraph summary cannot
settle any of that. Read the original alongside it, and if something affects you personally,
talk to a lawyer rather than a website. A few passages, marked where they appear, were
superseded by later amendments but remain in the document as ratified.