diff --git a/apis/swift/src/test/java/org/jclouds/openstack/swift/blobstore/integration/SwiftBlobIntegrationLiveTest.java b/apis/swift/src/test/java/org/jclouds/openstack/swift/blobstore/integration/SwiftBlobIntegrationLiveTest.java
index 681197bb17..0ab06a9586 100644
--- a/apis/swift/src/test/java/org/jclouds/openstack/swift/blobstore/integration/SwiftBlobIntegrationLiveTest.java
+++ b/apis/swift/src/test/java/org/jclouds/openstack/swift/blobstore/integration/SwiftBlobIntegrationLiveTest.java
@@ -22,9 +22,7 @@ import static org.testng.Assert.assertTrue;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.Properties;
-import java.util.Random;
 
 import org.jclouds.blobstore.BlobStore;
 import org.jclouds.blobstore.domain.Blob;
@@ -35,6 +33,7 @@ import org.jclouds.io.ByteStreams2;
 import org.jclouds.io.Payload;
 import org.jclouds.openstack.keystone.v2_0.config.KeystoneProperties;
 import org.jclouds.openstack.swift.blobstore.strategy.MultipartUpload;
+import org.jclouds.utils.TestUtils;
 import org.testng.ITestContext;
 import org.testng.SkipException;
 import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;
@@ -206,16 +205,10 @@ public class SwiftBlobIntegrationLiveTest extends BaseBlobIntegrationTest {
    }
 
    private ByteSource createByteSource(long size) throws IOException {
-      final Random random = new Random();
-      final byte[] randomBytes = new byte[(int) MultipartUpload.MIN_PART_SIZE];
-      random.nextBytes(randomBytes);
-      ByteSource byteSource = ByteSources.repeatingArrayByteSource(randomBytes).slice(0, size);
-      assertEquals(byteSource.size(), size);
-      return byteSource;
+      return TestUtils.randomByteSource().slice(0, size);
    }
 
    private ByteSource createByteSourceBiggerThan(long partSize) throws IOException {
-      int nCopies = (int) (partSize / getOneHundredOneConstitutionsLength()) + 1;
-      return ByteSource.concat(Collections.nCopies(nCopies, oneHundredOneConstitutions));
+      return TestUtils.randomByteSource().slice(0, partSize + 1);
    }
 }
diff --git a/blobstore/src/test/java/org/jclouds/blobstore/integration/internal/BaseBlobIntegrationTest.java b/blobstore/src/test/java/org/jclouds/blobstore/integration/internal/BaseBlobIntegrationTest.java
index e563d7bc69..e1e7fc71ae 100644
--- a/blobstore/src/test/java/org/jclouds/blobstore/integration/internal/BaseBlobIntegrationTest.java
+++ b/blobstore/src/test/java/org/jclouds/blobstore/integration/internal/BaseBlobIntegrationTest.java
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
 import java.security.cert.CertificateException;
-import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.Date;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Random;
@@ -55,13 +54,13 @@ import org.jclouds.blobstore.domain.StorageMetadata;
 import org.jclouds.blobstore.domain.StorageType;
 import org.jclouds.crypto.Crypto;
 import org.jclouds.encryption.internal.JCECrypto;
-import org.jclouds.http.BaseJettyTest;
 import org.jclouds.http.HttpResponseException;
 import org.jclouds.io.ByteStreams2;
 import org.jclouds.io.Payload;
 import org.jclouds.io.Payloads;
 import org.jclouds.io.payloads.ByteSourcePayload;
 import org.jclouds.logging.Logger;
+import org.jclouds.utils.TestUtils;
 import org.testng.ITestContext;
 import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;
 import org.testng.annotations.DataProvider;
@@ -77,30 +76,24 @@ import com.google.common.collect.Maps;
 import com.google.common.hash.HashCode;
 import com.google.common.io.ByteSource;
 import com.google.common.io.Files;
-import com.google.common.io.Resources;
 import com.google.common.util.concurrent.Futures;
 import com.google.common.util.concurrent.ListenableFuture;
 import com.google.common.util.concurrent.Uninterruptibles;
 
 public class BaseBlobIntegrationTest extends BaseBlobStoreIntegrationTest {
-   private static ByteSource oneHundredOneConstitutions;
+   private static final ByteSource oneHundredOneConstitutions = TestUtils.randomByteSource().slice(0, 101 * 45118);
 
    @BeforeClass(groups = { "integration", "live" }, dependsOnMethods = "setupContext")
    @Override
    public void setUpResourcesOnThisThread(ITestContext testContext) throws Exception {
       super.setUpResourcesOnThisThread(testContext);
-      oneHundredOneConstitutions = getTestDataSupplier();
    }
 
    public static ByteSource getTestDataSupplier() throws IOException {
-      return ByteSource.concat(Collections.nCopies(
-            101, Resources.asByteSource(BaseJettyTest.class.getResource("/const.txt"))));
+      return oneHundredOneConstitutions;
    }
 
    public static long getOneHundredOneConstitutionsLength() throws IOException {
-      if (oneHundredOneConstitutions == null) {
-         getTestDataSupplier();
-      }
       return oneHundredOneConstitutions.size();
    }
 
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/jclouds/http/BaseHttpCommandExecutorServiceIntegrationTest.java b/core/src/test/java/org/jclouds/http/BaseHttpCommandExecutorServiceIntegrationTest.java
index 22ab9699b1..fbb2412e12 100644
--- a/core/src/test/java/org/jclouds/http/BaseHttpCommandExecutorServiceIntegrationTest.java
+++ b/core/src/test/java/org/jclouds/http/BaseHttpCommandExecutorServiceIntegrationTest.java
@@ -32,14 +32,12 @@ import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.net.URLDecoder;
-import java.util.Arrays;
-import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.Random;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 
-import org.jclouds.io.ByteSources;
 import org.jclouds.io.Payload;
 import org.jclouds.util.Strings2;
+import org.jclouds.utils.TestUtils;
 import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;
 import org.testng.annotations.DataProvider;
 import org.testng.annotations.Test;
@@ -49,7 +47,6 @@ import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
 import com.google.common.collect.Multimap;
 import com.google.common.io.ByteSource;
 import com.google.common.io.Files;
-import com.google.common.io.Resources;
 import com.squareup.okhttp.mockwebserver.Dispatcher;
 import com.squareup.okhttp.mockwebserver.MockResponse;
 import com.squareup.okhttp.mockwebserver.MockWebServer;
@@ -65,14 +62,10 @@ public abstract class BaseHttpCommandExecutorServiceIntegrationTest extends Base
 
    private static final String XML = "<foo><bar>whoppers</bar></foo>";
    private static final String XML2 = "<foo><bar>chubbs</bar></foo>";
-
-   private String constitutionsMd5;
-   private ByteSource oneHundredOneConstitutions;
+   private static final ByteSource oneHundredOneConstitutions = TestUtils.randomByteSource().slice(0, 101 * 45118);
 
    @BeforeClass(groups = "integration")
    public void setup() throws IOException {
-      oneHundredOneConstitutions = getTestDataSupplier();
-      constitutionsMd5 = base64().encode(oneHundredOneConstitutions.hash(md5()).asBytes());
    }
 
    protected IntegrationTestClient client(String url) {
@@ -219,6 +212,7 @@ public abstract class BaseHttpCommandExecutorServiceIntegrationTest extends Base
 
    @Test
    public void testGetBigFile() throws Exception {
+      String constitutionsMd5 = base64().encode(oneHundredOneConstitutions.hash(md5()).asBytes());
       MockResponse response = new MockResponse().addHeader("Content-MD5", constitutionsMd5)
             .addHeader("Content-type", "text/plain")
             .setBody(oneHundredOneConstitutions.openStream(), oneHundredOneConstitutions.size());
@@ -272,9 +266,7 @@ public abstract class BaseHttpCommandExecutorServiceIntegrationTest extends Base
       try {
          f = File.createTempFile("jclouds", "tmp");
          long length = (new Random().nextInt(32) + 1) * 1024 * 1024;
-         byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
-         Arrays.fill(buf, (byte) 'a');
-         ByteSources.repeatingArrayByteSource(buf).slice(0, length).copyTo(Files.asByteSink(f));
+         TestUtils.randomByteSource().slice(0, length).copyTo(Files.asByteSink(f));
 
          ByteSource byteSource = asByteSource(f);
          payload = newByteSourcePayload(byteSource);
@@ -636,11 +628,4 @@ public abstract class BaseHttpCommandExecutorServiceIntegrationTest extends Base
          server.shutdown();
       }
    }
-
-   @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
-   private ByteSource getTestDataSupplier() throws IOException {
-      return ByteSource.concat(Collections.nCopies(
-            101, Resources.asByteSource(BaseHttpCommandExecutorServiceIntegrationTest.class.getResource("/const.txt"))));
-   }
-
 }
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/jclouds/http/BaseJettyTest.java b/core/src/test/java/org/jclouds/http/BaseJettyTest.java
index d9a8419079..420c54eea1 100644
--- a/core/src/test/java/org/jclouds/http/BaseJettyTest.java
+++ b/core/src/test/java/org/jclouds/http/BaseJettyTest.java
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ import static org.jclouds.util.Strings2.toStringAndClose;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.Enumeration;
 import java.util.Properties;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
@@ -54,6 +53,7 @@ import org.eclipse.jetty.server.ssl.SslSelectChannelConnector;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.ssl.SslContextFactory;
 import org.jclouds.ContextBuilder;
 import org.jclouds.providers.AnonymousProviderMetadata;
+import org.jclouds.utils.TestUtils;
 import org.testng.annotations.AfterClass;
 import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;
 import org.testng.annotations.Optional;
@@ -66,7 +66,6 @@ import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableSet;
 import com.google.common.collect.LinkedHashMultimap;
 import com.google.common.collect.Multimap;
 import com.google.common.io.ByteSource;
-import com.google.common.io.Resources;
 import com.google.inject.Injector;
 import com.google.inject.Module;
 
@@ -74,6 +73,7 @@ public abstract class BaseJettyTest {
 
    protected static final String XML = "<foo><bar>whoppers</bar></foo>";
    protected static final String XML2 = "<foo><bar>chubbs</bar></foo>";
+   private static final ByteSource oneHundredOneConstitutions = TestUtils.randomByteSource().slice(0, 101 * 45118);
 
    protected Server server = null;
    protected IntegrationTestClient client;
@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@ public abstract class BaseJettyTest {
    public void setUpJetty(@Optional("8123") final int testPort) throws Exception {
       this.testPort = testPort;
 
-      final ByteSource oneHundredOneConstitutions = getTestDataSupplier();
       md5 = base64().encode(oneHundredOneConstitutions.hash(md5()).asBytes());
 
       Handler server1Handler = new AbstractHandler() {
@@ -245,11 +244,6 @@ public abstract class BaseJettyTest {
       server2.start();
    }
 
-   public static ByteSource getTestDataSupplier() throws IOException {
-      return ByteSource.concat(Collections.nCopies(
-            101, Resources.asByteSource(BaseJettyTest.class.getResource("/const.txt"))));
-   }
-
    public static ContextBuilder newBuilder(int testPort, Properties properties, Module... connectionModules) {
       properties.setProperty(PROPERTY_TRUST_ALL_CERTS, "true");
       properties.setProperty(PROPERTY_RELAX_HOSTNAME, "true");
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/jclouds/utils/TestUtils.java b/core/src/test/java/org/jclouds/utils/TestUtils.java
index b2053a18f3..035f1be987 100644
--- a/core/src/test/java/org/jclouds/utils/TestUtils.java
+++ b/core/src/test/java/org/jclouds/utils/TestUtils.java
@@ -16,6 +16,12 @@
  */
 package org.jclouds.utils;
 
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Random;
+
+import com.google.common.io.ByteSource;
+
 /**
  * Utility class for test
  */
@@ -37,4 +43,53 @@ public class TestUtils {
         System.out.println(System.getProperty("java.version", "None??"));
         return System.getProperty("java.version", "").contains("1.8.");
     }
+
+    public static ByteSource randomByteSource() {
+        return randomByteSource(0);
+    }
+
+    public static ByteSource randomByteSource(long seed) {
+        return new RandomByteSource(seed);
+    }
+
+    private static class RandomByteSource extends ByteSource {
+        private final long seed;
+
+        RandomByteSource(long seed) {
+            this.seed = seed;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public InputStream openStream() {
+            return new RandomInputStream(seed);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static class RandomInputStream extends InputStream {
+        private final Random random;
+
+        RandomInputStream(long seed) {
+           this.random = new Random(seed);
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public synchronized int read() {
+            return (byte) random.nextInt();
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public synchronized int read(byte[] b) throws IOException {
+            random.nextBytes(b);
+            return b.length;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public synchronized int read(byte[] b, int off, int len) throws IOException {
+            // need extra array to cope with offset
+            byte[] srcBytes = new byte[len];
+            random.nextBytes(srcBytes);
+            System.arraycopy(srcBytes, 0, b, off, len);
+            return len;
+        }
+    }
 }
diff --git a/core/src/test/resources/const.txt b/core/src/test/resources/const.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 9b5ffaa9e0..0000000000
--- a/core/src/test/resources/const.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,872 +0,0 @@
-Provided by USConstitution.net
-------------------------------
-
-[Note: Repealed text is not noted in this version.  Spelling errors have been
-corrected in this version.  For an uncorrected, annotated version of the
-Constitution, visit http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html ]
-
-We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union,
-establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common
-defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to
-ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the
-United States of America.
-
-Article 1.
-
-Section 1
-All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the
-United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
-
-Section 2
-The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second
-Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall
-have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of
-the State Legislature.
-
-No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of
-twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who
-shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be
-chosen.
-
-Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States
-which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers,
-which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons,
-including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not
-taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.
-
-The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting
-of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten
-Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of
-Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State
-shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be
-made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to choose three,
-Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut
-five, New York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland
-six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five and Georgia three.
-
-When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive
-Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies.
-
-The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other Officers; and
-shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
-
-Section 3
-The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each
-State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shall
-have one Vote.
-
-Immediately after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election,
-they shall be divided as equally as may be into three Classes. The Seats of the
-Senators of the first Class shall be vacated at the Expiration of the second
-Year, of the second Class at the Expiration of the fourth Year, and of the
-third Class at the Expiration of the sixth Year, so that one third may be
-chosen every second Year; and if Vacancies happen by Resignation, or otherwise,
-during the Recess of the Legislature of any State, the Executive thereof may
-make temporary Appointments until the next Meeting of the Legislature, which
-shall then fill such Vacancies.
-
-No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty
-Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not,
-when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.
-
-The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but
-shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.
-
-The Senate shall choose their other Officers, and also a President pro tempore,
-in the absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the Office of
-President of the United States.
-
-The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for
-that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the
-United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be
-convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.
-
-Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from
-Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or
-Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be
-liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to
-Law.
-
-Section 4
-The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and
-Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof;
-but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except
-as to the Place of Choosing Senators.
-
-The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and such Meeting shall
-be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by Law appoint a
-different Day.
-
-Section 5
-Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of
-its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do
-Business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be
-authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and
-under such Penalties as each House may provide.
-
-Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for
-disorderly Behavior, and, with the Concurrence of two-thirds, expel a Member.
-
-Each House 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.
-
-Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of
-the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that
-in which the two Houses shall be sitting.
-
-Section 6
-The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their
-Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United
-States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the
-Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of
-their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for
-any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other
-Place.
-
-No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected,
-be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States which
-shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been increased
-during such time; and no Person holding any Office under the United States,
-shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.
-
-
-Section 7
-All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives;
-but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.
-
-Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate,
-shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United
-States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his
-Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the
-Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after
-such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it
-shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it
-shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it
-shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be
-determined by Yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and
-against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If
-any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays
-excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law,
-in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment
-prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.
-
-Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the Concurrence of the Senate and
-House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of Adjournment)
-shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the Same
-shall take Effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall
-be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according
-to the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill.
-
-
-Section 8
-The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and
-Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general
-Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be
-uniform throughout the United States;
-
-To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
-
-To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and
-with the Indian Tribes;
-
-To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject
-of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
-
-To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the
-Standard of Weights and Measures;
-
-To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin
-of the United States;
-
-To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;
-
-To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited
-Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings
-and Discoveries;
-
-To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
-
-To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and
-Offenses against the Law of Nations;
-
-To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning
-Captures on Land and Water;
-
-To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be
-for a longer Term than two Years;
-
-To provide and maintain a Navy;
-
-To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
-
-To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union,
-suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
-
-To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for
-governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United
-States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers,
-and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline
-prescribed by Congress;
-
-To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District
-(not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and
-the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United
-States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent
-of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of
-Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; And
-
-To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into
-Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this
-Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or
-Officer thereof.
-
-Section 9
-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.
-
-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.
-
-No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
-
-No capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the
-Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
-
-No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.
-
-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.
-
-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.
-
-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.
-
-Section 10
-No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters
-of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but
-gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder,
-ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any
-Title of Nobility.
-
-No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties
-on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing
-its inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by
-any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the
-United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Control
-of the Congress.
-
-No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any duty of Tonnage, keep
-Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact
-with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually
-invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
-
-Article 2.
-
-Section 1
-The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of
-America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together
-with the Vice-President chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows:
-
-Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct,
-a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives
-to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or
-Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United
-States, shall be appointed an Elector.
-
-The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two
-persons, of whom one at least shall not lie an Inhabitant of the same State
-with themselves. And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and
-of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and
-transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to
-the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence
-of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the
-Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes
-shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of
-Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and
-have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall
-immediately choose by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a
-Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like
-Manner choose the President. But in choosing the President, the Votes shall be
-taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; a quorum
-for this Purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two-thirds of the
-States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In
-every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest
-Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there
-should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall choose from
-them by Ballot the Vice-President.
-
-The Congress may determine the Time of choosing the Electors, and the Day on
-which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the
-United States.
-
-No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at
-the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office
-of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not
-have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a
-Resident within the United States.
-
-In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death,
-Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said
-Office, the same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by
-Law provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation or Inability, both of
-the President and Vice President, declaring what Officer shall then act as
-President, and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the Disability be
-removed, or a President shall be elected.
-
-The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation,
-which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the Period for which he
-shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other
-Emolument from the United States, or any of them.
-
-Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following
-Oath or Affirmation:
-
-"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of
-President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve,
-protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
-
-Section 2
-The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United
-States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual
-Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the
-principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any subject
-relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to
-Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in
-Cases of Impeachment.
-
-He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make
-Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he 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: but the Congress
-may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think
-proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of
-Departments.
-
-The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during
-the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End
-of their next Session.
-
-Section 3
-He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the
-Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge
-necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both
-Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with
-Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he
-shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he
-shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all
-the Officers of the United States.
-
-Section 4
-The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States,
-shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason,
-Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
-
-Article 3.
-
-Section 1
-The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court,
-and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and
-establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold
-their Offices during good Behavior, and shall, at stated Times, receive for
-their Services a Compensation which shall not be diminished during their
-Continuance in Office.
-
-Section 2
-The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under
-this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which
-shall be made, under their Authority; to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other
-public Ministers and Consuls; to all Cases of admiralty and maritime
-Jurisdiction; to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party; to
-Controversies between two or more States; between a State and Citizens of
-another State; between Citizens of different States; between Citizens of the
-same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a
-State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.
-
-In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and
-those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original
-Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall
-have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and
-under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.
-
-The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and
-such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been
-committed; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such
-Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have directed.
-
-Section 3
-Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against
-them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person
-shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the
-same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
-
-The Congress shall have power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no
-Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except
-during the Life of the Person attainted.
-
-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. And the Congress may by general
-Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be
-proved, and the Effect thereof.
-
-Section 2
-The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities
-of Citizens in the several States.
-
-A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall
-flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on demand of the
-executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be
-removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime.
-
-No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof,
-escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein,
-be discharged from such Service or Labour, But shall be delivered up on Claim
-of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.
-
-Section 3
-New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new States
-shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any
-State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or parts of States,
-without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of
-the Congress.
-
-The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and
-Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United
-States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice
-any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.
-
-Section 4
-The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican
-Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on
-Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature
-cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
-
-Article 5.
-
-The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall
-propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the
-Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for
-proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and
-Purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of
-three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths
-thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the
-Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One
-thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and
-fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State,
-without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
-
-Article 6.
-
-All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this
-Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this
-Constitution, as under the Confederation.
-
-This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in
-Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the
-Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the
-Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or
-Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
-
-The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the
-several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of
-the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or
-Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be
-required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United
-States.
-
-Article 7.
-
-The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the
-Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same.
-
-Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the
-Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred
-and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the
-Twelfth. In Witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names.
-
-George Washington - President and deputy from Virginia
-
-New Hampshire - John Langdon, Nicholas Gilman
-
-Massachusetts - Nathaniel Gorham, Rufus King
-
-Connecticut - William Samuel Johnson, Roger Sherman
-
-New York - Alexander Hamilton
-
-New Jersey - William Livingston, David Brearley, William Paterson, Jonathan
-Dayton
-
-Pennsylvania - Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Mifflin, Robert Morris, George Clymer,
-Thomas Fitzsimons, Jared Ingersoll, James Wilson, Gouvernour Morris
-
-Delaware - George Read, Gunning Bedford Jr., John Dickinson, Richard Bassett,
-Jacob Broom
-
-Maryland - James McHenry, Daniel of St Thomas Jenifer, Daniel Carroll
-
-Virginia - John Blair, James Madison Jr.
-
-North Carolina - William Blount, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Hugh Williamson
-
-South Carolina - John Rutledge, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charles Pinckney,
-Pierce Butler
-
-Georgia - William Few, Abraham Baldwin
-
-Attest: William Jackson, Secretary
-
-
-Amendment 1
-Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
-prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or
-of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition
-the Government for a redress of grievances.
-
-Amendment 2
-A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the
-right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
-
-Amendment 3
-No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the
-consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by
-law.
-
-Amendment 4
-The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and
-effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and
-no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or
-affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the
-persons or things to be seized.
-
-Amendment 5
-No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime,
-unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising
-in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time
-of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense
-to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any
-criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life,
-liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be
-taken for public use, without just compensation.
-
-Amendment 6
-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, which district shall have been previously
-ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the
-accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory
-process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of
-Counsel for his defence.
-
-Amendment 7
-In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty
-dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a
-jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than
-according to the rules of the common law.
-
-Amendment 8
-Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel
-and unusual punishments inflicted.
-
-Amendment 9
-The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed
-to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
-
-Amendment 10
-The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor
-prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to
-the people.
-
-Amendment 11
-The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any
-suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States
-by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.
-
-Amendment 12
-The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for
-President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant
-of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person
-voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as
-Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as
-President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President and of the number of
-votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to
-the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of
-the Senate;
-
-The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of
-Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;
-
-The person having the greatest Number of votes for President, shall be the
-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors
-appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having
-the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as
-President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot,
-the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by
-states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this
-purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and
-a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House
-of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice
-shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then
-the Vice-President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other
-constitutional disability of the President.
-
-The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the
-Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors
-appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers
-on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the
-purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a
-majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person
-constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to
-that of Vice-President of the United States.
-
-Amendment 13
-1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime
-whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United
-States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
-
-2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate
-legislation.
-
-Amendment 14
-1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the
-jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State
-wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge
-the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any
-State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of
-law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the
-laws.
-
-2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to
-their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State,
-excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the
-choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States,
-Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or
-the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male
-inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the
-United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion,
-or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the
-proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole
-number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
-
-3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of
-President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the
-United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a
-member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of
-any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to
-support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in
-insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the
-enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove
-such disability.
-
-4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law,
-including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in
-suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the
-United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred
-in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for
-the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and
-claims shall be held illegal and void.
-
-5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the
-provisions of this article.
-
-Amendment 15
-1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or
-abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or
-previous condition of servitude.
-
-2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate
-legislation.
-
-Amendment 16
-The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from
-whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and
-without regard to any census or enumeration.
-
-Amendment 17
-The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each
-State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall
-have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications
-requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.
-
-When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the
-executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such
-vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the
-executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the
-vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.
-
-This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of
-any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.
-
-Amendment 18
-1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale,
-or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into,
-or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to
-the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
-
-2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce
-this article by appropriate legislation.
-
-3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an
-amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as
-provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the
-submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
-
-Amendment 19
-The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or
-abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
-
-Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
-
-Amendment 20
-1. The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th
-day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d
-day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this
-article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then
-begin.
-
-2. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting
-shall begin at noon on the 3d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint
-a different day.
-
-3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the
-President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become
-President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for
-the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to
-qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President
-shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein
-neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified,
-declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to
-act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President
-or Vice President shall have qualified.
-
-4. The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the
-persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever
-the right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the case of the
-death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice President
-whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them.
-
-5. Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October following the
-ratification of this article.
-
-6. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an
-amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the
-several States within seven years from the date of its submission.
-
-Amendment 21
-1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States
-is hereby repealed.
-
-2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession
-of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in
-violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.
-
-3. The article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an
-amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided
-in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof
-to the States by the Congress.
-
-Amendment 22
-1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice,
-and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for
-more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President
-shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this
-Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President, when this
-Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may
-be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term
-within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of
-President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
-
-2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an
-amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the
-several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States
-by the Congress.
-
-Amendment 23
-1. The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall
-appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct: A number of electors of
-President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and
-Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were
-a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in
-addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for
-the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors
-appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such
-duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.
-
-2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate
-legislation.
-
-Amendment 24
-1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other
-election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or
-Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be
-denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to
-pay any poll tax or other tax.
-
-2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate
-legislation.
-
-Amendment 25
-1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or
-resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
-
-2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the
-President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon
-confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
-
-3. Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate
-and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he
-is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he
-transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties
-shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.
-
-4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers
-of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law
-provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of
-the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is
-unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President
-shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting
-President.
-
-Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the
-Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration
-that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office
-unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of
-the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide,
-transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the
-Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the
-President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon
-Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty eight hours for that
-purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty one days after
-receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session,
-within twenty one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by
-two thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the
-powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge
-the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers
-and duties of his office.
-
-Amendment 26
-1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or
-older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any
-State on account of age.
-
-2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate
-legislation.
-
-Amendment 27
-No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and
-Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall
-have intervened.
diff --git a/providers/aws-s3/src/test/java/org/jclouds/aws/s3/AWSS3ClientLiveTest.java b/providers/aws-s3/src/test/java/org/jclouds/aws/s3/AWSS3ClientLiveTest.java
index dbf2fe4b69..7fe6b8c44c 100644
--- a/providers/aws-s3/src/test/java/org/jclouds/aws/s3/AWSS3ClientLiveTest.java
+++ b/providers/aws-s3/src/test/java/org/jclouds/aws/s3/AWSS3ClientLiveTest.java
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ import static org.testng.Assert.fail;
 
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.UUID;
 
@@ -41,7 +40,6 @@ import org.jclouds.blobstore.domain.Blob;
 import org.jclouds.blobstore.domain.StorageMetadata;
 import org.jclouds.blobstore.options.PutOptions;
 import org.jclouds.domain.Location;
-import org.jclouds.http.BaseJettyTest;
 import org.jclouds.io.ByteStreams2;
 import org.jclouds.io.Payload;
 import org.jclouds.s3.S3Client;
@@ -51,15 +49,16 @@ import org.jclouds.s3.domain.ObjectMetadata;
 import org.jclouds.s3.domain.ObjectMetadata.StorageClass;
 import org.jclouds.s3.domain.ObjectMetadataBuilder;
 import org.jclouds.s3.domain.S3Object;
+import org.jclouds.utils.TestUtils;
 import org.testng.ITestContext;
 import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;
 import org.testng.annotations.Test;
 
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableSet;
+import com.google.common.hash.HashCode;
 import com.google.common.io.ByteSource;
 import com.google.common.io.Files;
-import com.google.common.io.Resources;
 
 /**
  * Tests behavior of {@code S3Client}
@@ -69,8 +68,8 @@ public class AWSS3ClientLiveTest extends S3ClientLiveTest {
    public AWSS3ClientLiveTest() {
       provider = "aws-s3";
    }
-   private ByteSource oneHundredOneConstitutions;
-   private byte[] oneHundredOneConstitutionsMD5;
+
+   private static final ByteSource oneHundredOneConstitutions = TestUtils.randomByteSource().slice(0, 5 * 1024 * 1024 + 1);
 
    @Override
    public AWSS3Client getApi() {
@@ -81,24 +80,16 @@ public class AWSS3ClientLiveTest extends S3ClientLiveTest {
    @Override
    public void setUpResourcesOnThisThread(ITestContext testContext) throws Exception {
       super.setUpResourcesOnThisThread(testContext);
-      oneHundredOneConstitutions = getTestDataSupplier();
-      oneHundredOneConstitutionsMD5 = oneHundredOneConstitutions.hash(md5()).asBytes();
-   }
-
-   public static ByteSource getTestDataSupplier() throws IOException {
-      ByteSource byteSource = Resources.asByteSource(BaseJettyTest.class.getResource("/const.txt"));
-      // we have to go beyond 5MB per part
-      int nCopies = (int) ((5 * 1024 * 1024 + 1) / byteSource.size());
-      return ByteSource.concat(Collections.nCopies(nCopies, byteSource));
    }
 
    public void testMultipartSynchronously() throws InterruptedException, IOException {
+      HashCode oneHundredOneConstitutionsMD5 = oneHundredOneConstitutions.hash(md5());
       String containerName = getContainerName();
       S3Object object = null;
       try {
          String key = "constitution.txt";
          String uploadId = getApi().initiateMultipartUpload(containerName,
-                  ObjectMetadataBuilder.create().key(key).contentMD5(oneHundredOneConstitutionsMD5).build());
+                  ObjectMetadataBuilder.create().key(key).contentMD5(oneHundredOneConstitutionsMD5.asBytes()).build());
          byte[] buffer = oneHundredOneConstitutions.read();
          assertEquals(oneHundredOneConstitutions.size(), (long) buffer.length);
 
diff --git a/providers/azureblob/src/test/java/org/jclouds/azureblob/blobstore/integration/AzureBlobIntegrationLiveTest.java b/providers/azureblob/src/test/java/org/jclouds/azureblob/blobstore/integration/AzureBlobIntegrationLiveTest.java
index c4a77058bc..3839de4c4f 100644
--- a/providers/azureblob/src/test/java/org/jclouds/azureblob/blobstore/integration/AzureBlobIntegrationLiveTest.java
+++ b/providers/azureblob/src/test/java/org/jclouds/azureblob/blobstore/integration/AzureBlobIntegrationLiveTest.java
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ import org.jclouds.blobstore.BlobStore;
 import org.jclouds.blobstore.domain.Blob;
 import org.jclouds.blobstore.integration.internal.BaseBlobIntegrationTest;
 import org.jclouds.blobstore.options.PutOptions;
-import org.jclouds.io.ByteSources;
+import org.jclouds.utils.TestUtils;
 import org.testng.SkipException;
 import org.testng.annotations.Test;
 import static org.testng.Assert.assertEquals;
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ public class AzureBlobIntegrationLiveTest extends BaseBlobIntegrationTest {
 
    public void testMultipartChunkedFileStreamPowerOfTwoSize() throws IOException, InterruptedException {
       final long limit = MultipartUploadStrategy.MAX_BLOCK_SIZE;
-      ByteSource input = ByteSources.repeatingArrayByteSource(new byte[1024]).slice(0, limit);
+      ByteSource input = TestUtils.randomByteSource().slice(0, limit);
       File file = new File("target/const.txt");
       input.copyTo(Files.asByteSink(file));
       String containerName = getContainerName();