Constitution
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juliactress145 on June 15, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Article I, Section 8 | gives congress the power to: build postal roads, declare war, regulate commerce, borrow money, coin money, spend money, make naturalization (citizenship) laws, punish counterfeiters, fix standards of weights and measures, punish piracies on high seas, copyright and patent laws, make rules for army and navy, create courts inferior to the supreme court, and appoint officers in militia |
| Amendment VI | right to trial by jury |
| Amendment I | Right to free speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of assembly |
| Article V | Constitutional convention outlined |
| Article I, Section 9 | Gives congress the right to Habeus Corpus, and the right against ex post facto law |
| Article I, Section 7 | Gives congress the right to impose taxes |
| Amendment IV | right to freedom from warrant-less searches |
| Article I, Section 2 | gives congress the right to impeachment |
| Article I, Section 3 | Gives congress the right to try cases of impeachment |
| Article IV, Section 4 | Guarantees states a republican government |
| Article II, Section 1 | Gives president the power to command militia when in federal service |
| Amendment X | gives unenumerated powers reserved to states or people (natural law) |
| Amendment VIII | Right against cruel and unusual punishments |
| Article III, Section 2 | Gives Supreme court the right to decide lawsuits in common law |
| Article II, Section 2 | Gives president the right to appoint judges and pardon criminals, as well as write/ratify treaties with other nations |
| Amendment XIII | abolishes slavery |
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