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The Constitution (Constitutional convention: (Virginia Plan: This was a…
The Constitution
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Amendments
Article 5 of the US Constitution states that amendments have to be passed by a 2/3 majority in both houses of the legislature (upper and lower houses of the senate).
27 Amendments
The amendment must then be ratified by 3/4 of states legislators. Alternative procedures are also provided but are rarely used.
The first 10 amendments are known as the Bill of Rights.
The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 limited the power
of the national government and guaranteed
US citizens certain personal rights.
Articles 1-7
Article 1:
Written on June 21, 1788US
Constitution deals with the Legislative Branch (the Senate and the House of Representatives).
Explains who can become a representative and a senator.
Explains all of the powers that Congress and the individual states have, and what Congress and the states can not do.
Article 2:
Written on June 21, 1788
Deals with the powers of the Executive Branch (Administration, headed by the President) and the powers of Congress and the Federal government.
Establishes the Executive branch of the US government and the election, powers and responsibilities of the President.
Article 3:
Written on June 21, 1788
Deals with the Judicial Branch (the system of courts and judges), judicial powers and the crime of treason.
Establishes the last of the three branches of government, the Judiciary which deals with the courts and judges and establishes the Supreme Court as the highest court in the US.
Article 4:
Written on June 21, 1788
Deals with the relationship between the states and the federal government and describes how to admit new states to the Union.
Is basically the duties that individual states have to each other, as well as those the federal government has to the states.
Article 6:
Deals with Supremacy, Debts and Oaths.
Article 5:
States that constitutional amendments have to be passed by a two-thirds majority in both houses of the legislature (upper and lower houses of the senate).
Then ratified by three-fourths of states. and then by the states. Alternative procedures are also provided, but these are rarely used.
Article 7:
Deals with the requirements for ratification (approval) of the Constitution.
States that when 9 states approve of the Constitution in their conventions, then the Constitution shall be set up as the government for the states that have ratified (approved) it.
Rule of Law: the rule of law is a law saying that every citizen and person in the United States of America has to follow and obey the laws of the constitution and if they don't they will be in trouble.
Limited Government: Limited government is the rule of how much power the government is allowed to have and it is in the constitution.
Separation of Power: legislative, judicial and also executive. Those are the separate powers in our government and they all have different abilities.
Checks and Balances: they stop the government from getting too powerful. It gives rights to the direct branches of government and it makes sure that whatever they do can be stopped or checked from a different branch.
Popular Sovereignty: That all parts of the government is controlled by the people and who ever is elected is elected from the people. Rule by the People.
republicanism: the belief that the government should be ruled like a republic and based off of popular sovereignty.
Individual Rights: individual rights include the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as stated in the United States Declaration of Independence.
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