Happy Constitution Day

OK, my own personal Top Five Constitutional Provisions:

• Article 2, Section 2: ...[The President] shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law...
• Article 2, Section 3: [The President] shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union...
• Article 1, Section 5: Each House [of the Legislature] shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the members of either House on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.
• Article 1, Section 8: The Congress shall have power ... to establish post offices and post roads...
• Article 4, Section 1: Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state.

Note that I am not considering amendments, since this is Constitution Day and not Bill of Rights day (that would be a nice holiday), and I have limited myself to a Top Five, as is traditional (at least for this Tohu Bohu, which means I left out the definition of treason (article 3, section 3) and the copyright and patent power (article 1, section 8). Also, as with all Top Fives, these are records of momentary preferences, rather than definitive and categorical statements. Next year I may well have an entirely different list.

chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek,
-Vardibidian.