- After passing the House of Representatives and the Senate where does a bill go?
- To the president to either be signed or rejected with his noted objections
- After the first election, how many groups are Senators divided into?
- 3
- All trials besides impeachment shall be by what?
- Jury
- Are there more Senators or Representatives?
- Representatives- Senators have longer terms though
- Atleast how many Representatives shall each state have?
- 1
- Can a new State be made inside the jurisdiction of another?
- No
- Citizens of each state shall have the same rights as what?
- citizens in other states
- Congress cannot receive emolument from who?
- King, Prince, or foreign state
- Congress has the ability to ______ money, and regulate the value thereof and the value of foreign ______
- Coin
- Congress has the power to establish uniform rules and laws of what throughout the united states?
- Naturalization and bankruptcies
- Congress shall protect each state from what?
- Invasion and on application of the Legislature, or of the Executive if the Legislature is out to lunch, domestic violence
- Each house has the power to judge the _________ and _________ of its members.
- Elections and qulifications
- Except in cases of Treason, Felony, or Breach of Peace when are Senators and Representatives safe from arrest?
- When going to, while in, and leaving their respective House
- How long is a presidential term?
- 4 years
- How many amendments are there?
- 27
- How many Representatives will be entitled to Conneticut?
- 5
- How many Representatives will be entitled to Delaware?
- 6
- How many Representatives will be entitled to Georgia?
- 3
- How many Representatives will be entitled to Mass.?
- 8
- How many Representatives will be entitled to New Hampshire?
- 3
- How many Representatives will be entitled to New Jersey?
- 4
- How many Representatives will be entitled to New York?
- 6
- How many Representatives will be entitled to North Carolin?
- 5
- How many Representatives will be entitled to Penn.?
- 8
- How many Representatives will be entitled to Rhode Island and Providence plantations?
- 1
- How many Representatives will be entitled to South Carolin?
- 5
- How many Representatives will be entitled to Virginia (the pimp state)?
- 10
- How many Senators does each state get?
- 2
- How many votes do Senators get and how many years is one of their terms?
- 1 and 6 years
- How many witnesses are required to convict treason?
- 2
- How often are Representatives chosen?
- Every second year
- How often is the least amount the congress can convene a year and on what day?
- once a year on the first Monday of December
- How old and how long a citizen do Representatives have to be to run for election?
- 25 years old and 7 years a citizen
- How old and how long a citizen does the President have to be?
- 35 years old and 14 years a citizen
- How old and how many years a citizen do Senators have to be?
- 30 years old and 9 years a citizen
- How was the respective numbers of a state's population determined?
- the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years (apprenticeship) and 3/5 of all other persons (slaves)
- How will the electors vote?
- Ballot for two persons
- If there is a tie between presidential candidates what happens?
- The House of Representatives votes by ballot
- In amendment 1, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of what?
- Religion
- In regulating the election of Senators, Congress has the power to alter the times and manner but what can they not alter?
- The place
- In the 1st amendment, what can the Congress not abridge?
- Free speech, or of the press, the right of people to peaceably assemble,
- in the 3rd amendment, no soldier shall be what?
- quartered in any house without the consent of the owner even in war time
- in the 4th amendment, what shall not be violated?
- The publics right to have no property seized or searched without probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation
- in the 5th amendment, what shall no person be held to answer for? I PLEAD THE 5TH!!
- a crime, unless on presentment of an amendment
- No amendment can affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article until what year?
- 1808
- No preference of commerce and regulation shall be given to what?
- Ports of any states
- No state shall be deprived of what?
- its equal suffrage in the Senate
- No state shall do what?
- enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation, grant letters of marque, coin money, pass any bills of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, lay any imposts or duties on impors and exports
- No title of what shall be granted under the United States
- Nobility
- Representatives and what shall be apportioned among the several states?
- Direct Taxes
- The congress has the power to do what on the credit of the united states?
- borrow money
- The Congress has the power to do what with foreign countries, states, and Indian tribes?
- Regulate commerce
- The congress has the power to punish what?
- the counterfeiting of coin and securities throughout the united states, piracies
- The Congress has the power to raise, support, provide, and maintain what?
- an army and navy
- The Congress is limited the power of laying Capitation which is what?
- (Poll tax) a fixed amount not apportioned to the amount of income of an individual
- The president addresses who when giving the state of the Union?
- Congress
- The President's compensation is not allowed to what?
- diminish or increase during his term
- The proportion of Representatives to state population will not exceed what?
- 1 for every thirty thousand
- Until the end of his term, a Senator and Representative is not allowed to do what?
- take a newly created or higher paying political office, or a civil office.
- until what year was the migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by congress?
- 1808
- Upon 2/3s vote from both Houses and presentment to the states for ratification who is bypassed in bringing an amendment into law
- The president
- What amendment abolished slavery?
- the thirteenth
- What amendment addresses rights of the people that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution?
- the ninth
- What amendment allows for electors for the district of Columbia equal to the whole number of senators and representatives in conin congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a state
- the 23rd
- What amendment allows for the rights to a speedy and public trial as well as an impartial jury?
- The sixth
- What amendment allows woman to vote?
- the 19th
- What amendment bans alcohol? (Prohibition)
- the 18th
- What amendment changed the day of which congress met at least once a year and what day is it?
- the twentieth amendment and the 3rd day of january
- What amendment changed the way we elect our president and VP? Note: it used to be the runner up in the presidential race took the VP office. Now its all or nothing and presidential candidates chose their VPs.
- the twelth
- What amendment deals with congressional pay stating "No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened?"
- the 27th
- what amendment gives the vp the right to be president in the removal of the president and the president the right to nominate a vp if one leaves?
- the 24th
- What amendment guards against unreasonable searches and seizures?
- The fourth
- What amendment lowers the voting age from 21 to 18
- the 26th
- What amendment prohibits excessive bail or fines, as well as cruel and unusual punishment
- the 8th
- What amendment provided african americans equal rights and disallows previous individuals who have rebelled under oath to protect the constitution which can be overturned with a 2/3s vote in each house?
- The fourteenth
- What amendment removed the 3/5s clause from Article 1?
- the 14th
- What amendment removed the requirement that income taxes be apportioned among the states?
- the 16th
- What amendment repealed the prohibition?
- the 21st
- What amendment says that Congress has the power to collect income taxes?
- the 16th
- What amendment specifies the election of senators and further rules of the Senate?
- the 17th
- What amendment states that "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved for the States respectively, or to the people?"
- the tenth
- What amendment states that citizens of one state are not allowed to charge a different state?
- The eleventh
- what amendment states that In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved
- The Seventh
- What amendment states that the right to vote will not account for race, color, or previous condition of servitude?
- the fifteenth
- What amendment states there can only be 2 presidential terms?
- the 22nd
- What amendment stats that "No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual ser
- The Fith
- What amendment would become inoperative unless it was ratified by 3/4s of the states within 7 years of being presented?
- the twentieth
- What are all Legislative powers vested in?
- A Congress
- What are letters of Marque and Reprisal?
- official warrants or commissions from a national government authorizing the designated agent to search, seize, or destroy specified assets or personnel belonging to a party who has broken a law
