Howell Constitution Margin Quiz

Preamble

Intro to Constitution

Article 1

Establishes Legislative Branch (Congress)

Article 1, Section 1

Bicameral Congress (split into Senate and HOR)

Article 1, Section 2

- Membership of HOR

- Power to impeach

Article 1, Section 3

- Membership of Senate

- Power to try impeachments

Article 1, Section 4

Laws governing (member) elections

Article 1, Section 5

Rules of Congress (they each establish for themselves)

Article 1, Section 6

- Salaries and immunity of members

- Bar on members of Congress holding federal appointive office (simultaneously holding a federal government position)

Article 1, Section 7

- Money bills (bills for raising revenue) originate in HOR

- Procedure for enacting laws (bill becomes law)

- Veto power (from President)

Article 1, Section 8

Powers of Congress

- Taxes, borrowing, money, counterfeiting

- Regulation of commerce, naturalization and bankruptcy,

- Post office

- Patents and copyrights

- Create courts, punish piracies

- Declare war, create army and navy, call militia, govern District of Columbia

"Necessary-and-proper" clause (make any law needed to carry out listed powers)

Article 1, Section 9

Restrictions on powers of Congress

- Cannot suspend slave trade or habeas corpus (right to question imprisonment)

- No bill of attainder (pass laws that punish someone without trial) or ex post facto law (retroactively criminalizes actions)

- No interstate tariffs

- No preferential treatment for some states

- No titles of nobility

- Appropriations (authorizes spending)

Article 1, Section 10

Restriction on powers of states

Article 2

Establishes Executive Branch

Article 2, Section 1

- Office, election, and pay of president

- Requirements to be president

Article 2, Section 2

Powers of President

- Commander in Chief (leads US Armed Forces)

- Pardons

- Treaties and appointments

Article 2, Section 3

Relations of president with Congress

Article 2, Section 4

Impeachment

Article 3

Establishes Judicial Branch

Article 3, Section 1

Federal courts (establishment)

Article 3, Section 2

Jurisdiction of courts (types of cases they can hear)

- Original (first to hear case)

- Appellate (reviewing lower decisions)

Article 3, Section 3

Treason

Article 4

- Relationships between states

- Relationships between states and federal government

Article 4, Section 1

Full faith and credit (states must honor each other's laws and decisions)

Article 4, Section 2

- Privileges and immunities (within states)

- Extradition (return criminals to state where crime occurred)

Article 4, Section 3

- Creation of new states

- Governing territories

Article 4, Section 4

Protection of states (guaranteed)

Article 5

Amending the Constitution

Article 6

- Assumption of debts of Confederation (carried over from Articles of Confederation)

- Supremacy of federal laws and treaties

- No religious test (as qualification for office)

Article 7

Ratification procedure

1st Amendment

Freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly

2nd Amendment

Right to bear arms

3rd Amendment

Quartering troops in private homes

4th Amendment

Prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures

5th Amendment

Rights when accused; "due-process" clause (must follow legal procedures)

6th Amendment

Rights when on trial

7th Amendment

Common-law suits (legal cases based on precedent, usually private disputes like contracts, property, or injury)

8th Amendment

Bail; no "cruel and unusual" punishments

9th Amendment

Unenumerated rights protected

10th Amendment

Powers reserved for states

11th Amendment

Limits on suits against (other) states

12th Amendment

Revision of electoral-college procedure

13th Amendment

Slavery prohibited

14th Amendment

Protects citizens' rights and equality

14th Amendment, Section 1

- Ex-slaves made citizens

- "Due-process" clause applied to states

- "Equal-protection" clause

14th Amendment, Section 2

Reduction in congressional representation for states denying adult males the right to vote

14th Amendment, Section 3

Southern rebels denied federal office

14th Amendment, Section 4

Rebel debts repudiated (invalidated)

15th Amendment

Blacks given right to vote

16th Amendment

Authorizes federal income tax

17th Amendment

Requires popular election of senators

18th Amendment

Prohibits manufacture and sale of liquor

19th Amendment

Right to vote for women

20th Amendment

Sets office terms and rules for succession

20th Amendment, Section 1

Federal terms of office to begin in January

20th Amendment, Section 3

Emergency presidential succession

21st Amendment

Repeals Prohibition

22nd Amendment

Two-term limit for president

23rd Amendment

Right to vote for president in District of Columbia

24th Amendment

Prohibits poll taxes in federal elections

25th Amendment

Presidential disability and succession

26th Amendment

Voting age lowered to eighteen

27th Amendment

Congressional pay raises