Article 1
Article 1 describes which branch of the U.S. government?
What is the Legislative Branch?
What branch does article two pertain to?
What is the Executive Branch?
What branch of the US government does article 3 discuss?
What is, the judicial branch? (Establishes and empowers the judicial branch of the national government.
What is the subject of the 4th article?
What is relationship to the states.
What is the subject of Article 5 of the constitution?
What is amendments and ratification?
What are the important ideas of the legislation branch?
What is checks and balances, the election of Senators and Representatives, lawmaking, and the power Congress has?
what are the requirements to become president?
What is You must be over the age of 35, be a natural born citizen and have lived in the United States for at least 14 consecutive years?
What is the head of the judicial branch?
What is, the Supreme Court. (Supreme Court is head of the judicial branch, judges will also receive compensation that does not diminish during their term.)
What political group would approve of the 4th article?
What is the anti-federalists.
How much support from both houses of congress is needed for proposal of an amendment?
What is ⅔ support?
What are the two lawmaking sectors of the legislation branch?
What is, the senate and the house of representatives? (Matt goes into detial, house has 435 members, represent individual districts,serve two year terms// senate has 100 members, represent their states, serve 6 year terms)
How does the electoral college work?
The electoral college is the system used in order to vote for the president. Each state gets the same amount of electors as they have members in congress and these electors take the popular vote into account and vote for the president the majority of time siding with the popular vote.
What is judicial review?
What is, the power to review acts of congress. (Ex: An example of judicial review would be in the court case, Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruled that state laws prohibiting abortion were unconstitutional.)
Under the 4th article, what is it called when one state hands over a felon to another state?
What is extradition.
To approve an amendment, who do you need the go ahead from?
What is the states and congress?
What are the powers of the legislation branch?
What is, making all the laws, declaring war, regulate interstate and foreign commerce, controls taxing and spending policy.
What does the president do as commander and chief?
The power to sign treaties although they must be approved by a ⅔ vote in both parts of congress. The president is not authorized to declare war but he is able to act as commander and chief to use the military to respond to issues of national security. With this position the President controls the military.
How long are the terms in the Supreme Court?
What section under article 4 deals with the guarantee that every state will have a republican form of government?
What is section 4?
Through what branch can an amendment be found unconstitutional?
what is the judiciarfy branch?
What is the difference between the enumerated powers and implied powers?
What is, enumerated powers are the powers that have been made explicit while implied powers are the ones that are not as clear, they are not explicitly listed but they are assumed.(enumerated powers- collect taxes, borrows money on the credit of the U.S., regulate trade with other nations, coin money and punish counterfeiters, declare war/raise a military.)
What is the president's role in law making?
The president can propose laws although he does not write them. He also has the decision to either sign laws given to him to put them in place or to veto them. Vetoes however, can be overridden when they are sent back to congress if it gets a ⅔ majority in both houses which rarely happens.
What is original jurisdiction?
what are cases that the Supreme Court hears directly.
Under what clause of the 4th article would the slaves be sent back home if found in another state?What amendment changed this clause?
What is the third clause and 13th amendment.
In the final part of Article 5 of the constitution, what is protected by the federal government in a state to state relationship?
What is equal suffrage?