Topic 3 An Overview of the constitution

To which one of the listed situations would the protections of the Full Faith and Credit Clause apply? YOU Decide!! "Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State." —Article IV, Section 1

A man taking a trip wants his driver's license from one State to be accepted as proper identification in another State. A policeman crosses into another State and issues a speeding ticket to a driver in that State. A man commits a crime in his home State and flees to another State because he knows he will not be prosecuted there. A student living out-of-state expects to pay the same amount of tuition at a public university as in-state residents pay.

9. Which of the following statements supplies the information on proposing an amendment that is missing from the chart?

A national convention called by Congress at the request of 2/3 of the State legislatures.

What limit does the Constitution place on the ability of the U.S. government to add new States to the Union?

Congress cannot take territory from an existing State to create a new State without the permission of the original State's legislature.

An explicitly denied power is a power banned outright by the Constitution. An implicitly denied power is a power banned, but not directly mentioned in the Constitution. Which of the following powers is implicitly denied to the Federal Government?

Establish marriage and divorce laws

To which amendment in the Bill of Rights are these protests related?

First Amendment

14. Based on the reasoning Chief Justice John Marshall uses in the excerpt below, what choice best describes the decision he made in the McCulloch v. Maryland case? "[T]he states have no power . . . to retard, impede, burden, or in any manner control, the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress." —Chief Justice John Marshall, McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819

He decided that federal law could not be challenged by State law.

12. Read this text excerpt about senatorial courtesy. Which explanation describes the underlying justification that validates this practice? "The Senate will approve only those presidential appointees, such as a federal judge or a United States marshal, who are acceptable to the senator or senators of the President's party from the State involved."

It is an example of an unwritten rule, or custom, that is closely followed in the Senate.

7. Which of the following statements BEST describes the cause and effect of the 15th Amendment?

It was passed as a result of the Union's victory in the Civil War, and extended the right to vote to male African Americans. It took away citizenship from those who had fought for the Confederacy, and was passed as a result of the Union's victory in the Civil War. It gave citizenship to African Americans and was passed as a result of a campaign led by President Roosevelt. It limited the number of terms a President could serve and was passed as a result of a speech made by President Abraham Lincoln

10. Under which of the following scenarios would your 5th Amendment rights be violated?

Local authorities refused to let you write a letter to the mayor complaining about his or her policies. The police entered your house and began to look for evidence without a warrant because they suspected you of a crime. You were found innocent of a crime but later charged again with that crime and forced to give evidence that made you seem guilty.

Which of the following statements best describes the pattern of how States were admitted into the Union?

No two States were ever admitted to the Union in the same year. The original 13 colonies were the only States admitted to the Union in the 1700s. The States on the west coast were the last ones admitted to the Union. The last States in the continental United States were admitted in the 1900s.

The first three Amendments listed have which of the following in common?

Protecting the rights of individuals in the court system

Which of the following powers is a concurrent power shared by both the federal and State governments that is missing from the chart? YOU DECIDE!!

Regulating interstate trade Licensing professionals such as doctors Seizing property without payment Setting punishments for crimes x c`y

What idea embodied in the Constitution is demonstrated by how California and Wyoming are represented in Congress?

The bicameral legislature creates equal representation in the Senate, but population-based representation in the House.

6. Which of the following is an example of checks and balances at work?

The people choose not to re-elect a President whose policies they dislike. The Federal Government passes a law that overrides similar laws in several States. A bill passed by the House is vetoed by the Senate. Congress removes from the bench a federal judge who has accepted a bribe.

13. Once an amendment is formally proposed, how long do the States have to ratify it?

There is no time limit on the ratification process and States have as long as they wish to consider amendments

3. Which of the following is NOT a check available to the legislative branch?

creating a new federal district court declaring an executive act to be unconstitutional rejecting a treaty passing a bill that has been rejected by the President

2. Which of the constitutional principles listed was Madison describing and defending in the quotation below? "In the compound republic of America, the power . . . is first divided between two distinct governments. . . . The different governments will control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself." —James Madison, Federalist No. 51, 1788

federalism

. Tariffs are taxes on foreign imports. In our federal system, the power to levy tariffs is a power

granted exclusively to the Federal Government by the Constitution.

States that joined the Union after the original 13 colonies

immediately received the same congressional status and constitutional rights as the original States.

What name is commonly given to this quote from the Constitution? "A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime." —Article IV, Section 2

the Extradition Clause

Local governments get their authority from

the State governments.

1. What specific constitutional principle was Alexander Hamilton referring to in this quotation?

the authority to interpret laws

5. The principle of popular sovereignty is based on the belief that

the government gets its power from the people and can exist only with their consent.

Use the quote from the text about reserved powers to determine which of the following examples is a reserved power possessed only by State governments. YOU DECIDE!! "The reserved powers are those powers that the Constitution does not grant to the National Government and does not, at the same time, deny to the States."

the right to grant patents and copyrights to inventors and authors the authority to seize public property the ability to forbid people under 18 to marry without parental consent the power to tax other State governments

The existence of the federal district courts is evidence of which of the following?

the way that executive agreements have added to the basic structure of the Federal Government