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Article order 1-7
Lazy Elephants Jump Slowly And Sit Regularly
Article 1
Deals with the legislative branch
Article 1 Section 1
Bicameral Congress of House and Senate
Article 1 Section 2
House membership - elections, age requirements
SOLE power to IMPEACH
Article 1 Section 3
Senate membership - 2 members per state
SOLE power to TRY impeachments
Article 1 Section 4
Laws governing elections
Prescribed by state legislature
Article 1 Section 5
Rules of Congress - 2/3 to expel, punishment by own accords
Article 1 Section 6
Salaries and immunities of members - privelaged from arrest when in session
You can't be a part of federal government while in Congress or vice versa
Article 1 Section 7
Money bills originate in the house
Presidential veto power - pocket veto in 10 days and 2/3 overturn
Article 1 Section 8 (CONGRESSIONAL POWER)
Congressional power to collect taxes
Borrow money on credit
Regulate foreign and domestic commerce
Establish naturalization and bankruptcy rules
Coin money & punish counterfeit
Create courts
Establish post-office
Secure and protect copyrights with patents and punish piracy
Declare war, create and maintain an army and navy, and call a militia
Govern D.C.
Necessary and proper clause for executing laws
Article 1 Section 9
Restrictions of Congress
Limiting the slave trade
Habeus Corpus can only be suspended with rebellion or invasion
No ex, post-facto laws passed
No taxes on interstate trade
No preferential treatment of states
No private money transfer (appropriation)
No titles of nobility
Article 1 Section 10
Restrictions on state power
Regulating the ability to place duties, ally w/ other states, coin money, or do anything congress can't
Article 2
Defines the Executive Branch
Article 2 Section 1
Office of president as the Executive Branch
Election process - electors, requirements (citizens, 35y/o) & pay
Article 2 Section 2
Powers of President as Commander-in-Chief
Can pardon, make treaties (with 2/3 approval) & appointments
Article 2 Section 3
Relations with congress
State of the Union, addresses to congress floor
Article 2 Section 4
Treason, Bribery, higher crimes shall remove by impeachment
Article 3
Judicial Branch
Article 3 Section 1
Federal courts - inferior to Supreme Court
Article 3 Section 2
Jurisdiction of courts
Supreme Court original to state-as-party disputes,
appellate to all else
Article 3 Section 3
Treason
Article 4
States rights
Article 4 section 1
Full faith and credit given by each state to each other state
Article 4 section 2
Privileges and immunities across states
- Extradition
Article 4 Section 3
Creation of states - Congress can govern states w/ rules and regulations
Article 4 Section 4
Political and Physical protection of each states by US
Article 5
Amendments
When 2/3 in House, ratified by 3/4 of states
Article 6
Supremacy
Debts assumed by confederation
Constitution & treaties are federal laws as Supreme Law of Land
No religious test for office
Article 7
Ratification
9 states needed to ratify constitution
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