Howell Constitution Margins Quiz Review pt.3 - Constitution Articles

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