| Term | Definition |
|---|
| A. I, Section 1 | Bicameral Congress |
| A. I, Section 2 | Membership of the House (and impeachment) |
| A. I, Section 3 | Membership of the Senate (and their power to try impeachments) |
| A. I, Section 4 | Laws governing elections |
| A. I, Section 5 | Rules of Congress |
| A. I, Section 6 | Salaries and immunities of members; bar on members of Congress holding federal appointive office) |
| A. I, Section 7 | Money bills originate in House |
| A. I, Section. 8, Clauses (segment 1) | Powers of Congress: taxes, borrowing, regulation of commerce, naturalization and bankruptcy, money, counterfeiting... |
| A. I, Section. 8, Clauses (segment 2) | ...post office, patents and copyrights, create courts, punish piracies, declare war, create army and navy, call militia... |
| A. I, Section. 8, Clauses (segment 3) | ...govern the District of Columbia, "necessary-and-proper" clause |
| A. I, Section 9 | Restrictions on powers of Congress: slave trade, habeas corpus, ex post facto law, no interstate tariffs, no preferential treatment for some states, appropriations, no titles of nobility |
| A. I, Section 10 | Restrictions on powers of States |
| A. II, Section 1 | Office of president, Election of president, Requirements to be president, Pay of president |
| A. II, Section 2 | Powers of president: commander in chief, pardons, treaties and appointments |
| A. II, Section 3 | Relations of president with Congress |
| A. II, Section 4 | Impeachment |
| A. III, Section 1 | Federal Courts |
| A. III, Section 2 | Jurisdiction of Courts: original and appellate |
| A. III, Section 3 | Treason |
| A. IV, Section 1 | Full faith and credit |
| A. IV, Section 2 | Privileges and immunities; Extradition |
| A. IV, Section 3 | Creation of new states; governing territories |
| A. IV, Section 4 | Protection of states |
| Article V. | Amending the Constitution |
| Article VI. | Assumption of debts of Confederation; Supremacy of federal laws & treaties; No religious test |
| Article VII. | Ratification procedure |
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