Pol 150 Constitution Quiz

• Question 1:
• -25+ years
• -7 years a citizen of State

• Question 2:
• -Power of impeachment
• -Choose Speaker & other officers of the House

• Question 3:
• Execuative authority issues Writs of Elections to fill vacancies

• Question 1:
• - Choose officers & President pro tempore in absence of Vice President or when he excercises the office of the President
• - Power to try all impeachments
• - Chief justice preside when President charged
• - No person convicted without 2/3 vote of members present

• Question 1:
• -Time, place, and manner of elections describes in State legislatures
• -Congress can make or alter regulations except for choosing Senators

• Question 1:
• -Judge of elections, returns, and qualifications of its own members
• -Determine rules of proceedngs
• -Punish members for disorderly conduct
• -Expel a member with 2/3 vote
• -Keep journal of proceedings and from time to time publish
• -Yays and Nays of members written in journal at desire of 1/5 of those present

• Question 1:
• -Priviledge from arrest during their attendance at the Session of their house and in going to and returning from the same
• -Except for treason, felony, and breach of peace

• Question 1:
• -Bills for raising revenue

• Question 2:
• -Bill passed by House of Reps. and Senate are sent to President
• -President approves it becomes law
• -President disapproves it is returned with objections to the House it originated from
• -If after reconsideration 2/3 of the original House approves its passed to other House with objections
• -If other hosue approves by 2/3 it becomes law
• -If any Bill is not returned by President after 10 days it is present it becomes law

• Question 1:
• -Lay and collect taxes, duties, imports, and excises to pay debts, provide for defense, and general welfare
• -Borrow money on the credit of U.S.
• -Regulate commerce with foreign nations, states, and tribes
• -Coin money and regulate value, of foreign Coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures
• -Establish post office and post roads
• -Securing for limited time to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writtings and discoveries
• -Constitute tribunals inferior to the supreme court

• Question 1:
• -Priviledge of Writ of Habeas Corpus not suspended unless in cases of rebellion or invasion
• -No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed
• -No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state
• -No revenue drawn from treasury but from appropriations made by law
• -No title of nobility granted by the U.S.
• -No person holding office without consent of Congress accept any title from a King, Prince, or foreign State

• Question 1:
• -Enter a treaty, alliance, or confederation
• -Coin money
• -Emit bills of credit
• -Pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligations of contracts
• -Grant any title of nobility

• Question 1:
• -Citizen of U.S.
• -35+ years
• -14 years a resident of U.S.

• Question 2:
• -Can't recieve emolument from U.S. during term

• Question 1:
• -May require opinion, in writting, of the principal officers in each of the executive departments (relating to their office duties)
• -Make Treaties with consent of 2/3 of the Senate
• -Nominate and appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and Consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court, and all other offiers of the U.S. with consent of 2/3 Senate
• -Convene both houses in cases of disagreement
• -Execute laws and commission all officers of the U.S.

• Question 1:
• -Treason
• -Bribery
• -Other high crimes and misdemeanors

• Question 1:
• -Sureme Court
• -Inferior courts that Congress establishes

• Question 2:
• -For good behavior

• Question 1:
• -Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls
• -Those in which a State shall be Party

• Question 2:
• -Trial of all crimes are by jury except in impeachment

• Question 1:
• -Levying War
• -Adhering to their enemies
• -Giving aid and comfort

• Question 2:
• -Testimony of 2 witnesses (or open confession in open court)

• Question 1:
• -All priviledges and immmunities of citizens in the several other States

• Question 1:
• -2/3 of both Houses deem it necessary
• -Congress proposes Amendment
• -Valid when ratified by legislatures of 3/4 of States

• Question 2:
• -Application of the legislatures of 2/3 of States
• -Convention called for proposing Amendment
• -Valid when ratified by legislatures of 3/4 of States

• Question 3:
• -No State without its consent can be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate

• Question 1:
• -Constitution
• -Laws of the U.S.
• -Treaties mae

• Question 2:
• -Judges in every State

• Congress cannot make a law that:
• -Establishes a religion
• -Prohibiting free excercise of a religion
• -Abridging freedom of speech
• -Abridging right of peacful assembly and petition the government

Soldiers can't be quartered in homes in time of peace or war without consent from owner or prescription in law

• -No person can be held to answer for capital or infamous crime (Unless on a presentment of indictment of grand jury)
• -No person subject for the same offence
• -No person compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself
• -Can't be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law
• -No private property taken for public use without just compensation

• In all criminal prosecuations
• -Accused has right to a speedy, public trial, by impartial jury of the State & district in which crime occured
• -Informed of nature and cause of accusation
• -Confronted with witnesses against him
• -Have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor
• -Have assistance of counsel for his defense

Powers not given to U.S. by constitution and not prohibited to the States are reserved to the States respectively or to the people

• Judicial power of the U.S.
• -Not construed to extend any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against the U.S. by
• -Citizens of another State
• -Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State

-Candidate with highest electoral votes becomes President

• -House of Representatives choose President if no majority
• -Representatives of each State has one vote
• -2/3 of States present
• -If house fails to choose President the Vice President acts as President

• -Person having most votes as Vice President will be Vice President
• -No majority in Vice President then Senate chooses Vice President
• -2/3 Senators present

-No person ineligible for President can be eligible of Vice President

• -Persons born or naturalized in U.S are citizens
• -No State can enforce laws that infringe the privileges or immunities of citizens
• -No State can deny a person of life, liberty, or property without due process
• -No State can deny a person within its jurisdiction the euqal protection of the laws

Right to vote cannot be denied by U.S. or States based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude

• Congress can lay and collect taxes on incomes from whatever source derived
• -Without apportionment among the States
• -Without regard to any census or enumeration

-Senators elected by the people

• -Vacancies in Senate
• -Executive authority of such State issue Writs of Election to fill Vacancies
• -Legislature of any State can empower the executive to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election

-President dies then Vice President

• -President not chosen before time fixed for beginning of his term or President elect fail to qualify
• -Vice President elect acts as President until a President qualifies

• -Neither President elect or Vice President elect qualify
• -Congress prescribes who acts as President or manner in which one will be selected
• -Person acts as President until President or Vice President qualifies

• -Electoral votes for District of Columbia
• -Euqal to amount of Senators and Representatives it would be entitled to if it were a State
• -Electors not more htan the least populous State

• -Death, removal, or resignation of President
• -Vice President becomes President

• -Vacancy in Vice President
• -President nominate a Vice President who will take office upon confirmation by majority vote of both Houses

• -President transmits to Congress that he can't perform duties
• -Vice President Acts as President
• -Until written declaration of contrary from President to Congress

• -Vice President and majority of principle officers of the executive departments transmit to Congress that President can't peform duties
• -Vice President becomes Acting President
• -When President transmits declaration to contrary to Congress he becomes President
• -Unless Vice Presdient & Majority transmit to Congress he can't perform duties
• -If both Houses determine by 2/3 that President can't perform Vice President Acting President

No law establishing compensation for Congress memebers can take effect until an election of representatives shall have intervened