- Article I: Legislative Branch
- Congress (makes laws)
- House of Representatives (determined by population)
- Senate (100; bicameral)
- Congress (makes laws)
- Article II: Executive Branch
- bureaus (FBI & CIA)
- cabinet (Department of Interior, Treasury, et cetera)
- enforces laws
- President (otherwise known as "commander in chief", "chief diplomat", "head of state")
- Article III: Judicial Branch
- Appellate (Appeal) Courts
- District Courts
- interprets laws
- Supreme Court
- decides if laws are unconstitutional
- judicial review established in Marbury & Madison
- Bill of Rights
- Amendment I
- sometimes called RAPP (freedom of religion, to assemble, of the press, to petition, and to free speech)
- establishment clause - the United States can't have an official religion
- free excuse clause - people can practice their religion any way they choose
- limit to free speech: cannot put others in danger (yelling "fire" in a theatre)
- important numbers
- XIII - ends slavery
- XIV - equal protection under law (equal citizenship)
- XIX - voting rights for women
- XV - voting rights for Black men
- XXVI - voting age at eighteen
- other rights protected
- no quartering of soldiers (Amendment III)
- no unreasonable search and seizures (Amendment IV)
- reasonable bail (Amendment VIII)
- to bear arms (Amendment II)
- trial by jury, speedy trial (Amendment VI)
- Amendment I
- constitutional sides
- Anti-Federalists - want more power for the states; want a Bill of Rights; supported by farmers
- Federalists - want strong central government; supported by merchants
- powers
- expressed - otherwise called enumerated; granted to the federal government
- reserved - reserved to the states
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