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Qualifications for Representatives and Senators.
Powers of Congress: Commerce Clause (regulate INTERstate commerce), coin money, establish postoffices, issue patents, declare war, army and navy, NECESSARY AND PROPER CLAUSE (aka Elastic Clause).
No export tax.
Limits on state power. |
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Qualifications and election of President.
Removal of President.
Powers of President: commander in Chief, pardons, treaties, appointments. |
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Establishes Supreme Court.
Gives Congress power to establish lower federal courts.
Selection of judges and life term.
Defines treason. |
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Full faith and credit between states.
Fugitive slave clause.
Formation of new states.
Territorial rules.
States have Republican form of government (meaning representative democracy).
Federal government protects states from invasion and domestic violence. |
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Proposal and ratification stages of Constitutional amendments.
Proposal: 2/3 of both houses of Congress
Ratification: 3/4 of state legislatures or 3/4 of special conventions held in the states. |
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Process of ratifying the Constitution.
(Conventions in 9 states) |
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