Lesson 12 Flashcards
Ex post facto
Changes the legality of an act after it has occurred
Secede
Withdraw
Supremacy clause
Article 6 section 2
Tariffs
Taxes on imports of manufactured goods
Delegates included phrases in the constitution that
Set forth powers of the national government
Article I section 4: grants state legislatures power to decide
Details of elections for senators and reps but also grants congress power to make or change those regulations
Article I section 8: gives congress power to set
Procedure for calling the militia into national service
Article IV, section. 3: gives congress power to
Create new states
Article IV, section 4: gives national gov power to guarantee each state a
“Republican form of government”
Article IV, section 4: requires national government to protect states from
Invasion or violence
Article vi, section 2: supremacy clause, makes constitution and all laws and treaties approved by congress the
Supreme law of the land. States that judges in state courts must follow the constitution or federal laws and treaties
(Provisions to protect rights)national gov may not suspend the
Writ of habeas corpus unless public safety at require if
(Main parts of electoral college) national government may not pass
Ex post facto and bills of attainder
(Main parts of electoral college) national gov may not suspend the right to
Trial by jury
(Main parts of electoral college) protection from the accusation of
Treason which can only be changed by a constitutional convention
Bill of attainder: punishment ordered by a legislature rather than by a court which declares
A person guilty of a crime and decrees a punishment without a judicial trial
(Provisions to protect political independence) members of congress cannot be arrested unless they commit
“Treason, felony, and beech of peace”
(Provisions to protect political independence) congress cannot impose
Religious test on people who hold national office
(Provisions to protect political independence) if member of executive or judicial are accused of misconduct
Impeachment clauses protect their right to fair trial
(Provisions to protect political independence) national gov cannot take money from treasury without
Appropriations
(Provisions to protect political independence) national gov cannot grant
Titles of nobility
States prohibited from:
Coining own money
Passing laws that violate contracts
Ex post fact/ bills of attainder
Entering foreign treaties/ declaring war
Granting titles of nobility
Levying taxes on imports: exports except as necessary
Keeping troops/ ships in times of peace
Discriminating against another states citizens
Refusing to return fugitives from justice to states from which they left
Most delegates opposed
Slavery
Words slave and slavery never
Appear in the constitution
Slaveholder a considers slaves to be
Personal property
Most delegates argued that slavery was a
State institution like other issues related to property rights
Some states suggested that if the constitution interfered with slavery they would
Not become part of he new nation
Fugitive slave cause: shows how delegates attempted to
Balance views regarding slavery
States that if a slave escapes to another stage thy must be returned to owner
Constitution was not to make slavery
Legal on a national level
Southerners wanted a 2/3 vote of
Both houses to pass committees
Southern delegates feared that northern congressmen would
Seek tariffs
Constitution provided that national government would not interfere with
Importation of slaves earlier than 1808
Slavery was the only issue that was
Not directly addressed
Constitution said nothing about
National citizenship
Question of citizenship left to each state due to fact that
Delegates couldn’t agree
Constitution said little about
Voting rights
Each state had its own voting laws that defined
Property qualifications
Constitution prescribes voting rights only once stating that anyone with the right to vote for
“The most numerous branch in the state legislature” can also vote in elections for the house
Argument that voting for the house should be
Restricted to landowners
Americans were unlikely to ratify the constitution if it
Repealed their voting rights
Constitution barely suggests
Boundaries between national and state power
Issue of a states right to secede from the U.S. Once they ratified the constitution was not
Addressed within the constitution
States argued that they possessed the right to
Secede if the gov enacted measures that were intolerable
A civil war would
Resolve this question
