1. The Constitution of the United States of America: We the People…

2. Preamble
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Learn it, Love it, Live it.
This will be part of the final.

3. Why we have a Constitution

4. Why we have a Constitution

5. Parts of the Constitution
There are 7 parts (Article/’pieces’)
Article I (Article 1 - Legislative)
Article II (Article 2 - Executive)
Article III (Article 3 - Judicial)
Article IV (Article 4 - States' Relations)
Article V (Article 5 - Mode of Amendment)
Article VI (Article 6 - Prior Debts, National Supremacy, Oaths of Office)
Article VII (Article 7 - Ratification)

6. Article I (Article 1 - Legislative)
There are 10 sections
Section 1 All Legislative powers (House & Senate)
Section 2 Requirements for election to House
Section 3 Requirements for election to Senate
Section 4 Requirements for how to hold elections
Section 5 Each ‘House” sets its own rules
Section 6 Legislators are to be paid and cannot be arrested
Section 7 How to write bills
Section 8 Congress’ powers (18 items, the biggest!)
Section 9 Limits on Congress’ power (8, the 2nd biggest!)
Section 10 Limits States’ powers (cannot contradict)

7. Article II (Article 2 - Executive)
There are 4 sections
Section 1 Requirements
“I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
Section 2 Powers
Commander in Chief, grant pardons
Make treaties (with 2/3 approval in Senate), nominate judges
Fill vacancies (temporarily – ‘recess appointments’)
Section 3 Other duties
State of the Union
Receive Ambassadors, Execute the laws, Commission Officers in the military
Section 4 May be removed/Impeached for
Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors

8. Article III (Article 3 - Judicial)
There are 3 sections
Section 1 Power
One supreme Court, and any other lesser courts that Congress sets up
Will be paid
Section 2 Responsiblities
Between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects, to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers
In all the other Cases the supreme Court shall have appellateJurisdiction
Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed
Section 3 Treason
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.
Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason

9. Mr. C What’s an ‘attainder’?
A bill of attainder (also known as an act of attainder or writ of attainder or bill of pains and penalties) is an act of a legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without a trial.
It would typically nullify the targeted person's civil rights, most notably the right to own property (and thus pass it on to heirs) or life.
Why did people hate them? Obvious potential for abuse and the violation of several legal principles, most importantly separation of powers, the right to due process, and the precept that a law should address a particular form of behavior not a person or people.

10. Article IV (Article 4 - States' Relations)
There are 4 sections
Section 1 Full Faith & Credit
Section 2
Privileges and Immunities of Citizens
Extradition
Return of runaway slaves
Section 3 Requirements for new states
Cannot be a piece of one or more states
Unless okayed by that state
Congress will make the law for how it happens
Section 4 Guarantees a Republican Form of Government in each state & Protection

11. Article V (Article 5 - Mode of Amendment)

12. Article VI (Article 6 - Prior Debts, National Supremacy, Oaths of Office)
“All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.”
Contentious
Big Deal
Alexander Hamilton fought very hard to have this included
Why?

13. Article VI (Article 6 - Prior Debts, National Supremacy, Oaths of Office)
“This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land.”
Federal Law trumps State Law/Courts

14. Article VI (Article 6 - Prior Debts, National Supremacy, Oaths of Office)
“The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States..”
All elected officials must make an oath to defend and uphold the Constitution.
No ‘religious test’ as England had.
(Barred Catholics from office)

15. Article VII (Article 7 - Ratification)
“The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same.”
9 states makes it official!

16. How we’re organized (little kid edition)

17. How we’re organized

18. Quick Graphic – Copy this!

19. Works Cited http://constitutionus.com/
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