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7 Articles of the Constitution

7 Articles of the Constitution

7 Articles of the Constitution

  • Article I – The Legislative Branch
  • Article II – The Executive Branch
  • Article III – The Judicial Branch
  • Article IV – The States' Power
  • Article V – Amendment
  • Article VI – Oaths, Debts, Supremacy
  • Article VII – Ratification

Article I

Article I- Legistlative Branch

What does the Legistlative Branch do?

  • Make laws
  • Declare war
  • Create and Collect taxes
  • Regulate interstate commerce
  • Establish post offices
  • Coin money
  • Grant patents and copyrights

Article II

Article II- Executive Branch

Made up of the President and the Cabinet

President

  • Must be 35 years old
  • Must be a native born citizen
  • Serves a 4 year term
  • Can be impeached

What does the Executive Branch do?

  • Enforce the laws
  • appoints and recieves embassadors
  • negotiates treaties
  • appoints federal judges and officials

Article III

Article III- Judicial Branch

Made of the Supreme Court

  • Serve for life

What does the Judicial Branch do?

  • Interpret the laws
  • Determine if laws are constitutional
  • settle disputes between states and foreign embassadors
  • Hears appeals from lower courts
  • Decide criminal and civil court cases according to the correct federal, state, and local laws.

Article IV

Article IV- The States' power

  • States have the power to make and carry out their own laws.
  • Citizens enjoy the same "rights" in other states.
  • States must have a "republican form of government.
  • Congress can add new states.

Article V

Article V- Amendment

  • The Constitution can be changed.
  • New amendments can be added to the US Constitution with the approval by a two-thrids vote in each house of Congress (967,281) and three-fourth vote by the states (38).

Article VI

Article VI- Debts, Oaths, Supremacy

  • The Constitution and federal laws are higher than state and local laws.
  • All laws must agree with the US Constitution.
  • US Constitution, and all laws made from it are the ‘supreme Law of the Land’,
  • All officials as in members of the state legislatures, Congress, judiciary and the executive officials have to swear an oath to the Constitution.

Article VII

Article VII- Ratification

This article shows all the people who signed the Constitution, representing the original 13 states.

  • The Constitution was presented to George Washington and the men at the Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787.
  • Representatives from twelve out of the thirteen original states signed the Constitution.
  • From September 1787 to July 1788, the states meet, talked about, and finally voted to ratify the Constitution.
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