Article I of the United States Constitution vest all (1)
powers "in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate
and House of Representatives."
The Constitution gives power of impeachment to
the (2) in Article I, but
provides that the (3) shall
try impeachment cases. Article I additional provides that all tax legislation
must originate in the (4) .
Section 8 of Article I gives the Congress the
power to make "all necessary and proper laws" to carry out the powers of
the Constitution. This clause is known as the (5) "
clause."
Article I, Section 9 prohibits Congress or the
states from passing legislation aimed at a particular individual. Such
a law is known as a (6) .
Also prohibited by this article is the creation of an (7)
law, which imposes punishment for an act that was not illegal when committed.
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Under Article II of the Constitution, the President
and Vice President of the United States are chosen by member of the (8).
The Constitution gives the President the right
to make treaties "with the Advice and Consent" of two-thirds of a quorum
of the (9) .
Article III states, "The judicial Power of the
United States shall be vested in one supreme court, and in such inferior
courts" as (10) may establish.
Article V provides for (11)
the Constitution.
Article VI, which states that laws of Congress
will prevail over any conflicting state laws, is known as the (12)
clause.
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are
know as the (13) .
The provisions of these amendments include freedom of speech, press, assembly,
and religion ((14)
Amendment); protection against unreasonable search and seizure ((15) );
the provision that no person can be forced to testify against himself or
herself ((16) Amendment);
the right to a speedy, public trial by jury in criminal cases ((17)
Amendment); and the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment ((18)
Amendment).
Nothing in the Constitution specifically provides
that (19) governments must
abide by the provisions of the Bill of Rights. But the United States Supreme
Court in the twentieth century gradually has extended the protection of
most of the Bill of Rights to the (20) .
Three constitutional amendments resulted from
the Civil War: the Thirteenth Amendment forbids (21) ;
the Fourteenth Amendment's (22)
clause has been used by the Supreme Court to protect the rights of individuals
against the police power of the state; and the Fifteenth Amendment barred
the federal and state governments from denying any citizens the right to
(23) because of race, color,
or previous condition of servitude.
The "equal protection of laws" provision of the
Fourteenth Amendment was the basis for the landmark 1954 Supreme Court
decision outlawing (24) in
public schools.
The Seventeenth Amendment provided for direct
election of (25) by the people,
instead of by the state legislatures.
The Nineteenth Amendment guaranteed (26)
the right to vote.
In 1971, the Twenty-sixth Amendment lowered the
minimum voting age to (27)
in all federal, state, and local elections.
