Da constitution: representing, y’all

Preamble- “We the People” most clearly illustrates the concept of popular sovereignty

Article 1- the legislative
Sec.1- Congress has two houses
Sec.2- H.o.R terms and stuff
Clause1: H.o.R. elected every two years by the people
Clause2: 25 age minimum
Clause3: representative of the people. Census every ten years or so. 1 representative for every 30000 people. 3/5 for slaves. Virginia gets the most initial representatives.
Clause4: if vacancies happen, Executive can issue writ of lection to fill hole
Clause5: H.o.R. picks Speaker and Officers, and has sole power of impeachment
Sec.3- senate terms and stuff
Clause1: two senators of each state, every six years. Each senator gets one vote
Clause2: split senate into 2 groups so not all up for election at same time. Exec can fill vacancies.
Clause3: minimum age 30
Clause4:VP is prez of senate but only votes in case of tie
Clause5: senate chooses some people
Clause6: Senate has power to try impeachments. When prez impeached, Chief Justice presides. 2/3 vote for conviction. Senate acts as jury.
Clause7: Judgement just removes you from office andgives you a bad street cred, and then you can be accounted for other stuff later
Sec.4- meetings
C1: each legislature makes schedule
C2: Congress meets at least once a year
Sec.5- certifications
C1: need most of the people there to do stuff
C2: Each House needs to put bad members in the corner or expel with 2/3 vote
C3: Each house shall keep a blog of its proceedings and publish when necessary
Sec.6- more rules
C1: Members will be paid and can’t get arrested for stuff at the session or whatnot
C2: Members can’t hold civil offices (check)
Sec.7- how to pass a law
C1: All bills involving money need to start in the H.o.R. (appropriation of money)
C2: every bill passed goes to prez. Can sign it. If rejects it, supermajority of 2/3 supercedes prez. Pocket veto if doesn’t sign it but if Congress cession ends before ten day period. Also can just let it sit for ten days and thus accepted as approved.
C3: this applies to most any bill or resolution
Sec-8. Meat and bones.
C1: can collect and lay taxes
C2: borrow money on credit of US
C3: Commerce clause. States not happy. Interstate.
C4: uniform laws
C5: To coin $ and regulate
C6: Punish counterfeiters
C7: Post offices and roads
C8: Patents for Arts and stuff
C9: CONSTITUTE TRIBUNALS INFERIOR TO THE SUPREME COURT (check)
C10: Define and punish pirates or something
C11: DECLARE WAR AND SUCH!
C12: raise and support armies and stuff (checks on prez)
C13: Navy
C14: make rules to govern Navy
C15: Make army execute laws of Union
C16: more military stuff
C17: DC is 10 sq. Miles. Control over Forts and Arsenals and such
C18: Elastic Clause: to make all laws necessary and proper to carry out powers of stuff that might not have been useful here
Sec.9- Limits on Congress
C1: Slave tarde laws ineffective for 20 years, though taxes are allowed in time period
C2: Habeus Corpus won’t be suspended, except for like rebellion and stuff
C3: No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto* (indiv. Rights, along with no religious test and trial by jury)
C4: tax and stuff based on census
C5: Meh, who cares. No taxed exports
C6: No Port-ial preference. All equal.
C7: No money taken from Treasury and receipt accounts and stuff shall be published
C8: No nobility titles
Sec.10- State Limits
C1: No state treaty, no state currency, no state nobility, etc
C2: no taxes on imp/exports
C3: No state armies