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30 years of age
Resident of State
U.S. Citizen for 9 years |
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| qualifications of House member |
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| 25 years of age Resident of state U.S. Citizen for 7 years |
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| Members of the House of Representatives serve two-year terms and are considered for reelection every even year |
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serve six-year terms.
elections to the Senate are staggered over even years.
1/3 of the Senate is up for reelection during any election. |
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| How members of both houses are selected |
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| Elected on statewide scale by direct popular vote |
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| Impeachment process in congress |
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If simple majority in house votes to impeach.
moves to senate requiring 2/3 vote. |
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| 51 members of senate must be present |
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First, a representative sponsors a bill.
then assigned to a committee for study.
If the bill passes by simple majority (218 of 435), the bill moves to the Senate.
Again, a simple majority (51 of 100) passes the bill.
House and Senate for final approval.
The Government Printing Office prints the revised bill in a process called enrolling.
The President has 10 days to sign or veto the enrolled bill. |
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| Revenue Bills originate in the house of representatives but senate may propose a concur with amendments |
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| 3 things president can do to a bill |
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Veto
Approve(sign it)
Pocket Veto (if congress is in session within 10 days) |
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| The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States |
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| Necessary and Proper Clause |
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| The Congress shall have Power to make the laws required for the exercise of its other powers established by the Constitution. |
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| a writ requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, especially to secure the person's release unless lawful grounds are shown for their detention |
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| new laws cannot apply to people committed of the crime before it became a law |
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| a legislative act finding a person guilty without trial of treason or felony and declaring him attained |
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| No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility |
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| four-year term, with a term limit of two terms (totaling eight years) or a maximum of ten years if the president acted as president for two years or less in a termu |
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| Qualifications of president |
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35 years of age
natural born citizen
Resident for 14 years |
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| a candidate must receive a majority of electoral votes. In the event no candidate receives the majority, the House of Representatives chooses the President and the Senate chooses the Vice President |
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Serve as commander in chief of the armed forces
Commission officers of the armed forces
Grant reprieves and pardons for federal offenses (except impeachment)
Convene Congress in special sessions
Receive ambassadors
Take care that the laws be faithfully executed
Wield the "executive power"
Appoint officials to lesser offices |
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| How federal judges are selected |
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| appointed by the United States President, and must be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, including the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| addresses the duties that states within the United States have to respect the "public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state." |
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| privileges and immunities |
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| prevents a state from treating citizens of other states in a discriminatory manner. Additionally, a right of interstate travel may plausibly be inferred from the clause |
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| Article IV, Section 2, Clause 2, which provides for the extradition of a criminal back to the state where he or she has committed a crime. |
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| New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States |
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A proposal to amend the Constitution must be made.
Congress votes.
2/3 of both houses must vote yes.
Then the amendment proposal goes to the states for a vote.
If 3/4 of the states' legislatures or conventions vote yes.
the amendment becomes part of the Constitution. |
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| (Article VI, Clause 2) establishes that the Constitution, federal laws made pursuant to it, and treaties made under its authority, constitute the supreme law of the land. |
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