Article 2 – The President
Minumum 35 years old
Natural-born citizen
Replaced by Vice President if needed
Elected by Electoral College
President – Powers & Duties
Command the military
Assign executive duties to secretaries
Give pardons for federal crimes
Execute laws passed by Congress
With Senate consent:
Make treaties (requires 2/3)
Appoint officers and judges
Can be removed from office by Congressional impeachment process
Article 3 – The Court System
Judges & Justices nominated by President, approved by Senate
Lifetime appointments with no salary reductions, provided “good behavior.”
With very few exceptions, hears cases on appeal.
Criminal trials must be by jury
Criminal trials must happen in the same state as the crime. Territorial crimes and federal crimes tried where Congress puts the court.
No punishing kids for parents' crimes.
“Checks & Balances” – Examples:
Congress gets to make laws, but President has to approve and Supreme Court can review.
A federal court can strike down any law it wants, but has no say over who gets to be a judge, or even how many judges there will be.
President makes foreign policy (wars, treaties, etc.), but Congress has to approve.
Article 4 – Relationship Between States
States must recognize other states' arrangements
Federal rights carry over state to state
States can't harbor other states' fugitives
No carving new states out of old states' territory without their permission and that of Congress.
Congress decides what makes a new state, but they must be a republic
Article 5 – Changing the Constitution
2/3 of both houses of Congress propose an amendment
3/4 of states ratify
Article 6 – Supremacy
The Constitution is the final word. If you want to be a state, you live with what it says until you can generate enough support to change it.
Everybody who gets a job under the Constitution must take an oath to work under its jurisdiction.
Nobody can be denied a properly-appointed Constitutional office because of religion.
Article 7 – Ratification
When 9 of 13 states ratify, the Constitution officially replaces the Articles of Confederation.
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In some ways I think that if you do something in one state (for example, getting a drivers permit in Tennessee at age 15; and then half a year later you move to Kentucky and have to wait until you turn 16 to get a Kentucky drivers permit) I completely agree with that, but as we talked about in class going to a different state to have a gay marriage and then moving back and being able to stay "married" is not right at all (gay marriage is just sickening to me) but it is just not right at all.!!!!!!
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