Contents

• Section 1: Legislative power vested in Congress.
• Section 2: House of Representatives.
• Section 3: Senate.
• Section 4: Congressional elections.
• Section 5: Procedure.
• Section 6: Compensation, privileges, and restrictions on holding civil office.
• Section 7: Bills.
• Section 8: Powers of Congress.

Article I describes the design of the legislative branch of US Government — the Congress. Important ideas include the separation of powers between branches of government (checks and balances), the election of Senators and Representatives, the process by which laws are made, and the powers that Congress has.

The Constitution confers on the U.S. Senate legislative, executive, and judicial powers. Finally, Article I, Section 3 also gives the Senate the exclusive judicial power to try all cases of impeachment of the President, the Vice President, or any other civil officer of the United States.

Smith. Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution creates certain rules to govern how Congress makes law. Its first Clause—known as the Origination Clause—requires all bills for raising revenue to originate in the House of Representatives. Any other type of bill may originate in either the Senate or the House.

Article 10: Created a group called the Committee of States who could act for the Congress of Confederation when the Congress was not working. Article 13: Declared that the Articles of Confederation were forever and could only be changed by the Congress of Confederation and if all the states agreed.

This is what Article 9 is about. Article 9 gives Congress the power over most aspects of foreign policy. It gives it the sole right to declare war. It gives Congress the sole right to send ambassadors to other countries and to make treaties with other countries.

The text of Article VII declares that the Constitution shall become the official law of the ratifying states when nine states ratified the document. The main dispute between Anti-Federalists and Federalists was whether the new Constitution could lawfully be ratified by nine states.

Article IV: All free inhabitants of the different states (except paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice) are entitled to the same privileges and immunities that the inhabitants of each state have. Each state must respect the records, acts, and judicial proceedings of the other states.

• Article I – The Legislative Branch. The principal mission of the legislative body is to make laws.
• Article II – The Executive Branch.
• Article III – The Judicial Branch.
• Article IV – The States.
• Article V – Amendment.
• Article VI – Debts, Supremacy, Oaths.
• Article VII – Ratification.

With the passage of time, weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation became apparent; Congress commanded little respect and no support from state governments anxious to maintain their power. Congress could not raise funds, regulate trade, or conduct foreign policy without the voluntary agreement of the states.

The Articles of Confederation created a national government composed of a Congress, which had the power to declare war, appoint military officers, sign treaties, make alliances, appoint foreign ambassadors, and manage relations with Indians. Under the Articles, the states, not Congress, had the power to tax.

Terms in this set (13)

• Strength 1. Congress could declare war, and start an army and navy.
• Strength 2. They could make peace and sign treaties.
• Strength 3. They can borrow money.
• Strength 4. They can organize a post office.
• Weakness 1. They had no power to draft soldiers.
• Weakness 2.
• Weakness 3.
• Weakness 4.

The Articles of Confederation were created by the Second Continental Congress. What was the purpose of the Articles of Confederation? The purpose of the Articles of Confederation was to plan the structure of the new government and to create a confederation-some kind of government.