Constitution AGAIN
Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Constitution; one of the powers of Congress that allows them to make any laws that are necessary and proper for carrying out their other powers. Also called the "Elastic Clause".
What is the necessary and proper clause?
Decides the committees each members will serve on and decides the order in which bills will heard.
What is the job of the speaker of the house?
States that a person may not be denied life, liberty or property without the due process of law.
What is due process?
Keeps house at 435 members.
What is the Reapportionment Act of 1929?
He is there because injustice is there and because he has organizational ties there. It is his duty to spread the word of freedom.
What is King’s reasons for being in Birmingham?
Article VI, Clause 2 of the Constitution; states that the U.S. Constitution, all laws made under it, and all treaties entered into under it, constitute the "supreme law of the land".
What is the Supremacy Clause?
Deal with money bills, select the president in an electoral college tie, write the articles of impeachment for high ranking officials.
What are the powers of the House of Representatives?
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments; all passed immediately following the Civil War.
What are the reconstruction amendments?
Individual citizens, special interest groups, corporations, non-governmental organizations.
What is the birthplace of a bill?
He says that they have been told to wait and that waiting always results in nothing happening which is not what they want to accomplish. The wait has been long overdue and putting it off doesn’t change the inevitable. He is very persuasive in making people realize that this is their everyday reality, that black men, women, and children are forced to live this way because of racism in America.
What is King's case against waiting for change to happen?
Clause in the 1st Amendment that states that Congress cannot establish religion.
What is the Establishment Clause?
To decide committee members and debate order bills.
What is the power of the Senate?
NAACP
What is an organization that was created to help African Americans?
They have to pass through both the House and the Senate.
What are the places where bills have to pass through?
“A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God.””Any law that uplifts human personality is just.”
What is King's definition of just and unjust laws?
Clause in the 1st Amendment that states that Congress cannot pass laws that inhibit the free exercise of religion.
What is the free exercise clause?
Approves all treaties, approves all appointments of people in offices, chooses the VP in an Electoral College tie, and acts as the jury in all trials of impeachment.
What are the Senate's special powers?
The court case that ruled segregation unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. The Board of Education?
It is used by the minority party to block the voting on bills. It is where members talk for a really long time.
What is a Filibuster?
The oppressor is given a false sense of superiority and the minority a sense of inferiority. It also distorts the soul and damages personality.
What is King's explanation of the effect of segregation?
Clause found in the 14th Amendment that says that states cannot deny U.S. citizens the equal protection of the law. The basis for nearly all civil rights cases.
What is the equal protection clause?
Free postage on all mail to constituents.
What is a franking privilege?
By law segregation.
What is De Jure Segregation?
51% in both houses.
What is the requirement for a bill to pass?
Not only will people around you start to distance themselves from you, but you could also get arrested and go on trial for disobeying the law.
What is the social and legal consequences for civil disobedience?