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- 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- 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- Judicial Branch
Made of the Supreme Court
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- 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- 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- 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- 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.