The Constitution

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The Constitution

• Explain how the document helps safeguard our
  basic freedoms and protects the people from
  abuse?
• What accounts for the longevity of our
  Constitutional government?
• http//www.usconstitution.net

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Philadelphia, 1787

• Delegates Charge
• Deficiencies in AOC
• Early Decisions
• Various Plans
• Who Were Founders?
• http//teachingamericanhistory.org/convention/
• Philosophical Principles

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Proposals

• The Virginia Plan
• New Jersey Plan
• http//library.thinkquest.org/11572/creation/frami
  ng/va_nj_plans.html
• The New York Plan and More!
• http//www.usconstitution.net/consttop_ccon.html

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Features of Document

• Separation of Powers
• Checks and Balances
• Federalism States v. National
• Representation
• Slavery
• Compromises

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Article I Legislature

• General Authority
• The House Sec. 2
• Qualifications
• 3/5 Compromise
• Impeachment
• Revenue Authority

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The Senate

• General Authority
• Sec. 3
• Qualifications
• Treaty Powers
• Impeachment
• Agreement of Two Houses

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Sections 4-7

• Meeting Times 4
• Rules, Quorum, Records 5
• Salary, Protections 6
• Revenue bill originate the House, Veto 2/3,
  Pocket veto 7
• Note Checks and Balances

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Section 8 Specific or Enumerated Powers

• Power Tax, Tariffs and Borrow
• Regulate Interstate Commerce
• Naturalization Authority
• Coin Money
• DECLARE WAR!!!!!!
• Coercive Authority
• The Elastic Clause or that which is necessary and
  proper

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Section 9

• Section 9 Slave Trade not suspended until 1808
  (earliest)
• Writ of Habeas Corpus sacred since 1215 Magna
  Carta
• Bill of Attainder Ex Post http//www.techlawjour
  nal.com/glossary/legal/attainder.htm
• Appropriations-expenditures-by law and full
  disclosure to public

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Section 10

• Terminologies defined
• http//www.usconstitution.net/const.htmlA1Sec10
• General Websites
• http//www.constitution.org/
• http//www.loc.gov/index.html
• http//www.house.gov/

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Art II ExecutiveSection 1

• What is exec authority
• Term Qualifications
• Electoral System
• Succession (25th Amendment)
• Salary
• Oath of Office

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Article I, Sec2-4

• Commander in Chief
• Pardon Power
• Treaty and Consent
• Nominate Officials
• Recess Appointments
• State of the Union Msg
• Impeachment

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Art III, Judiciary

• Court Authority?
• Life Appointment
• Scope of Jurisdictions
• Cases of Treason
• Number of Justices?
• Resume?
• Historical Cases and the Court

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Article IV

• Federal Authority Jurisdiction
• http//caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/ar
  ticle04/annotations
• Persons owing service (runaways)
• Congress and Territories (statehood regulations)
• Federal Government Promise to the people of
  territories

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Articles V-VII

• The Amendment Process
• http//www.law.emory.edu/FEDERAL/usconst.html
• Congressional Initiative
• States role Ratification
• Supremacy Clause Constitution
• How to ratify the Constitution in the aftermath
  of framers work in 1787

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Postscript

• Preamble came last six goals?
• Objections of VA, NY, RI and NC?
• Bill of Rights absence?
• The Federalist Papers
• Anti Federalists
• Longevity of the Union?
• Ultimate Tests?