Constitution Flashcards
Article 1- Section 8: Powers of Congress
- taxation, foreign commerce, borrowing, naturalization, bankruptcy, currency, standards, counterfeiting, post offices/post roads,copyrights/patents, federal courts, maritime crimes, war, armed forces, militia, district of columbia, lawmaking
Elastic Clause
Article 1- Section 8- Clause 18
Federal Powers known as
Delegated or Implied
State Powers known as
Reserved
Powers shared between both federal and state is known as
Concurrent
Powers forbidden to Congress
no title of nobility, no capitation, no bill of attainder shall be passed, habeas corpus shall not be suspended, no tax shall be laid on articles exported from any state, no preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce, no money shall be drawn from the treasury
Powers forbidden to States
No treaties, coining money, titles,etc, no import or export duties, no foreign relations or war powers
Article 2 (Executive Branch)
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall be eligible to the office of president; neither shall any person be eligible to that office , who shall not have attained to the age of 35 years, and been 14 years a resident within the United States
First 10 amendments of the Constitution are called the
Bill of Rights
1st Amendment
Freedom of Speech, Religion, Assembly, Press, and Petition
2nd Amendment
Keep and Bear Arms
3rd Amendment
Quartering of soldiers in peace time
4th Amendment
Freedom from Search
5th Amendment
Protection of Accused(“I plead the fifth”, due process)
6th Amendment
Rights of Accused Persons
7th Amendment
Trial by Jury(doesn’t apply to state courts)
8th Amendment
No EXCESSIVE Fines or CRUEL Punishments
9th Amendment
About other rights retained
10th Amendment
Powers reserved to states and people
16th Amendment
Congress can lay and collect taxes on incomes
17th Amendment
Senate will be composed of 2 senators from each state. Each senator has 1 vote. 6 years. executive authority of such state shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies
22nd Amendment
This amendment means the maximum number of years a president can serve is 10
23rd Amendment
Allows Washington D.C residents to vote for President every 4 years.
Who signed the constitution?
John Langdon, Nicholas Gilman, Nathaniel Gorham, Rufus King, William Samuel Johnson, Roger Sherman, Alexander Hamilton, William Livingston, David Brearly, William Paterson, Jonathan Dayton, Ben Franklin, Thomas Miffin, George Clymer, Thomas Fitzsimons, Jaed Ingersoll, James Wilson, Gouverneur Morris, George Read, Gunning Bedford Jr., John Dickinson, Richard Bassett, Jacob Broom, James M’Henry, Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, Daniel Carroll, John Blair, James Madison Jr., William Blount, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Hugh Williamson, John Rutledge, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, Pierce Butler, William Few, Abraham Baldwin, William Jackson
