The Constitution of The United States of America

Article One: Legislative Branch: Section Six: Privileges and Restrictions of Members

Directions: Using a copy of the Constitution, you are to write your answers to the questions on each portion of the Constitution of the United States of America that are in this section.

Who pays Congress?
What are the monetary benefits of Congressmen?

a. _______________________________________
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b._______________________________________
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c. _______________________________________
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What immunities do Congressmen have?

a. _______________________________________
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b. _____________________________________
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c. _______________________________________
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d. _____________________________________
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What three exceptions are made for Congressional immunity?

a. _______________________________________
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b. _____________________________________
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c. _______________________________________
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5. True or False

Senator or Representative may be appointed to any civil office while maintaining his seat in the House of Representatives or the House of the Senate.

6. True or False

A Senator or Representative may not hold any office established by Congress or receive any increased salary for an office that may have been approved during the time that member served in Congress.

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Article One: Legislative Branch: Section Seven: The Legislative Process

Directions: Using a copy of the Constitution, you are to write your answers to the questions on each portion of the Constitution of the United States of America that are in this section.

Where do all money bills originate in Congress?
What are the two types of money bills?

a. __________________________

b. ___________________________
What are the three requirements for enacting legislation?

a. _______________________________________________
b. _______________________________________________
c. _______________________________________________
Name the term that means the President refuses to sign a bill into law.
If the President refuses to sign a bill, then what must he do?
What does the House where a bill originated do with the President's objections to a bill?
If the House where a bill originated thinks a bill should become law even if the President will not sign the bill, what can that House do?
What must the other House do to pass a law the President will not sign?
If both Houses of Congress pass a bill over the President objections, does the bill become law?
When reconsidering a bill after the President has refused to sign it, what do the Houses of Congress have to do when voting?
If the President does not sign a bill within ten business days after receiving the bill, the bill becomes a ________________.
If the Congress before the President has ten days to sign a bill, does the President have to sign the bill?
Can a bill became a law if Congress has adjourned and the President does not sign the bill?
When the President waits for Congress to adjourn and a bill has not signed, what is this type of veto?
Can the President veto certain items from a bill without vetoing the entire bill?
Name the term for vetoing certain items in a bill without vetoing the entire bill.
What is a bill?
What is a resolution?
What must happen to all orders, resolutions, or votes to which the concurrence of the Senate and the House are necessary?
What type of order, resolution, or vote will not need the President's approval?
If the President do not approve an order, resolution or vote, what must Congress do to pass the order, resolution, or vote?

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Article One: Legislative Branch: Section Eight: Legislative Powers

Directions: Using a copy of the Constitution, you are to write your answers to the questions on each portion of the Constitution of the United States of America that are in this section. (Many questions may require research)

List the seven categories of Congress' legislative powers.

a. _____________________________ e. _____________________________
b. _____________________________ f. _____________________________
c. _____________________________ g. _____________________________
d. _____________________________

Listed below are the eighteen (18) clauses or paragraphs of the powers of the Legislative Branch of the United States. Write what category of power each clause or paragraph is.

a. _________________________	To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States, but all duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.
b._________________________	To borrow money on the credit of the United States.
c. _________________________	To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several the states, and with the Indian tribes.
d. _________________________	To establish a uniform rule of naturalization and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States.
e. _________________________	To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, to fix the standard of weights and measures.
f. _________________________	To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States.
g. _________________________	To establish post offices and post roads.
h. ________________________	To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.
i. _________________________	To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court.
j. _________________________	To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations.
k. _________________________	To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal and make rules concerning captures on land water.
l. _________________________	To raise and support armies, but no appropriation to that use shall be for a longer term than two years.
m. ________________________	To provide and maintain a navy.
n. _________________________	To make rules for the government and regulation of land and naval forces.
o. _________________________	To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively the appointment of officers, and the authority of training the militia according the discipline prescribed by Congress.
p. _________________________	To exercise the exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such district (not to exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock-yards, and other needful buildings;
q._________________________	To make all laws which are necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department of any officer thereof

What is the only reason Congress may tax us?
What are uniform taxes?
How does the United States borrow money?
What is Congress' exclusive power concerning commerce?
Who controls the buying, selling, and transporting of goods as well as the means by which they are traded?
What can Congress also do to exercise its control of commerce?

a. ____________________________ d. ___________________________
b. ___________________________ e. ____________________________
c._____________________________
What is the scope of Congress' power to regulate foreign commerce?

a._____________________________ d. ____________________________
b.____________________________ e. ____________________________
c.______________________________
What ways to trade does Congress control?

a. ____________________________________
b. ____________________________________
c. ____________________________________
What is naturalization?
What are the rules of naturalization?

a. _________________________ d. ________________________
b. _________________________ e. ________________________
c. _________________________
What is bankruptcy?
Which levels of government can regulate bankruptcy?

a. ______________________________
b. _____________________________
When the United States stop minting gold coins?
Define the term legal tender?
When did paper money become legal tender?
The United States monetary system is based on the

______________________________________________.
What is the base unit of the United States monetary system?
When did the United States adopt the English weights and measurement system?
What is the penalty counterfeiting?

a. The fine _______________________ b. Imprisonment __________________
When did the United States government end its control of the Post Office?
If the Postal Rate Commission sets the postal rate, can Congress or President of the United States veto the rate increase?
How long does a copyright last for an author?
How long does a patent last for an inventor?
You can receive patents for ________________ as well as ___________________.
What items can be a trademark?

a. _________________________ d. _________________________
b. _________________________ e. _________________________
c. _________________________ f. __________________________
How long does a trademark last?
Who has the power to create the federal court system under the Supreme Court?
What are the two items that Congress has the power to protect on the high seas?

a. __________________________

b. ______________________________
Who has the sole power to declare war?
Can the President of the United States send troops abroad without declaring war?
How many times has the President sent troops abroad without declaring war?
What limits the President from committing troops to battle when armed forces are deployed without a declaration of war?
Can letters of marque and reprisal be issued today? Why?
Why did Congress get to limited to funding the armed forces to two years?
True or False The Uniform Code of Military Justice means the code is used for all the armed branches of the military.
During times of natural disaster or major domestic disturbance the militia or National Guard is used to enforce ________________ and ______________.
Who calls the National Guard out for state emergencies?
Who calls the National Guard out for Federal service?
True or False The National Guard, when In Federal service Is subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Why was the District of Columbia created?
What type of powers does Section 8, Clause or Paragraph 18 have?
What is the nickname for Section 8, Clause 18?
What two items must implied powers do at all times?

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Article One: Legislative Branch: Section Nine: Powers Forbidden The United States

According to the Constitution, who has the exclusive control over interstate commerce?
What is a writ of habeas corpus?
What is the reason for the writ of habeas corpus?
When may the writ of habeas corpus be suspended?

a. _______________________________________

b. ________________________________________
What did the court case of Duncan vs. Kahanomoka determine?
What is a bill of attainder?
Are bills of attainder legal?
What is an ex post facto law?
What is the only direct tax or capitation tax we pay?
True or False The Federal government can tax exports.
True or False Congress cannot give favors to one region or state in the nation.
Section 9, Clause or Paragraph 6 is the key to mercantilistic economics. What does Clause 6 create?
Which branch of the government can spend money for the operation of the government?
Can an official of the Federal government accept a gift, bribe, and/or position In another government while serving the United States?
Can you be granted the noble title of Duke by the Congress of the United States?

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Article One: Legislative Branch: Section Ten: Powers Forbidden The States

List eleven items from Clause or Paragraph I that the States are not allowed to do:

a. ______________________________________________________________
b. ______________________________________________________________
c. ______________________________________________________________
d. ______________________________________________________________
e. ______________________________________________________________
f. ______________________________________________________________
g. _____________________________________________________________
h. ______________________________________________________________
i. ______________________________________________________________
j. ______________________________________________________________
k. ______________________________________________________________
Why were the limits or restrictions on the states listed?
May a State tax imports or exports?
Where does any money collected by the states for import taxes go?
Who controls and revises the import and export tax laws?
Why was the United States Government given control over import and export taxes?
Can a state set duties of tonnage, keep troops, or ships of war in times of peace, enter into any agreement with another state of the United States or foreign country, or enter into war?
What troops can a state keep?
When can a state troops be used?

a _______________________________

b. _______________________________
States can enter onto interstate compacts regarding problems that require Joint or regional action If ____________ approves.

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