Ap Gov articles

Article I

Form and powers of Congress - legislative/lawmaking powers granted to bicameral Congress

Article I Section 8

Enumerated powers of Congress - lay and collect taxes, borrow money, coin money, declare war, etc. + Necessary and Proper Clause

Article II

Provisions for the executive branch - electoral college and explicit power of president

Article II Section 2

The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and navy of the United States

Article II Section 3

President is there to enforce laws

Article III

Judicial branch - establishes Supreme Court and gives Congress power to establish other courts

Article IV

Federal government’s relationship to the states and the relationships of the states themselves

Article V

Process for amending the Constitution - establishes proposal and ratification

Amendment process (Article V)

• Two thirds of both Houses of Congress can propose

• Two-thirds of state legislatures can propose

• Three-fourths of states have to agree for ratification

Article VI

Supremacy clause - federal law is supreme law of the land

Article VII

establishes that ratification by conventions in 9/13 states was sufficient to make the Constitution operational among them

Article VI Clause

Supremacy Clause - The constitutional provision that establishes that federal law is the supreme law of the land and takes precedence over state laws.