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| What is the primary purpose of the US Constitution? |
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To establish the rules and limits of the federal government of the United States of America.
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Details and outlines the three parts of the federal government |
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| How must congress always pass laws? |
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| Under their powers detailed in the articles. |
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| Originally the constitution didn't apply to what at all? |
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| What branch of the government does each article of the Constitution outline? |
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Article One: Legislative
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Article Two: Executive
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Article Three: Judiciary |
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| What are important points covered by the first article of the US Constitution? |
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Tax+Spend
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Regulate Commerce Interstate
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Naturalization
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Promote the Progress of Science and Useful Arts
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Patent and Copyright Law
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Congress can pass any necessary and proper law to complete their mission
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| Legal actions by which detainees can seek relief from unlawful imprisonment. |
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| What are the most important parts of Article Two of the US Constitution? |
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Can make treaties with other nations which require ratification to become law with two-third majority of the senate.
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Appoint Officers of the United States
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Allows for impeachment
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| Many of the disagreements in the supreme court concern the meaning of terms in what? |
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| The Constitution of the US |
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| What is an Ex Post Facto Law? |
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| A law that retroactively changes the legal consequences (or status) of actions that were committed, or relationships that existed, before the enactment of the law |
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| The Constitution does not outline term limits for who? |
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| What does interstate mean? |
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| Process by which U.S. citizenship is granted to a foreign citizen or national after he or she fulfills the requirements established by Congress |
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| Congress can create additional courts inferior to what court? |
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| What is the 16th Amendment? |
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| It covers that the congress may collect and that the people must pay taxes. |
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| What is the Executive Branch in charge of? |
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| Making sure that the laws of the United States are obeyed. |
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| What is the Legislative Branch in charge of? |
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| Executive Orders are not what? |
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| How does the President Complete Executive Orders? |
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| By quoting the US Constitution, and relating it to their powers granted to them by the US Constitution. |
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| What are Executive Orders subject to? |
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| Review by the Supreme Court |
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| What is a fancy word for law? |
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| What is the Judicial Branch in charge of? |
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| What makes up the Judicial Branch? |
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| The Courts of the Supreme Court |
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| What is the focus of the Supreme Court? |
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| Cases related to the constitution. |
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| The Supreme Court can not do what? |
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| When the Supreme Court reviews a law, they are searching to see if said law is what? |
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| Why is "under the constitution", used as a reason for congress to review legislation to see if it is Constitutional? |
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| It was interpreted by fifty-percent of the founding fathers that the only power the judicial branch has is to hear a case, but not necessarily review the law as either good or bad. |
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| Who is the head of the IRS? |
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| The president of the United States. |
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| The president can't make laws, but can? |
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| What is the Writ of Mandamus? |
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| Order from a court to an inferior government official ordering the government official to properly fulfill their official duties or correct an abuse of discretion. |
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| What was Marbury asking the court to do in the case Marbury v Madison? |
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| Marbury in Marbury v Madison, wanted a writ of Mundane against? |
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| Marbury v Madison allowed the supreme court to review laws as what? |
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| No government member can grant someone a what? |
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| People can basically not sue what? |
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| American citizens cannot be given royal titles in other countries to be recognized where? |
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| The highest class in certain societies, especially those holding hereditary titles, money, and land. |
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| First born child, and heir to the throne. |
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| a settlement of the inheritance of Property over a number of generations so that it remains within a family or other group. |
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| When someone owns land in a aristocracy, they must pay estate taxes which goes to who? |
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| The surrounding populace. |
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| What do we need to do for homework? |
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| Read chapters one and two of Meat Racket and Do the Cengage Quiz |
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