Article I Constitution

What does it pertain to?

What is Legislative Branch?

• Why is it called bicameral? _______________• Which “body” is called the People’s Branch ?

_____________________• Why is it called the People’s Branch?

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• How does one get to be in the People’s Branch ________________________________

People’s Branch aka __________

• What is the total membership? _____________

• Approximately how many people does one representative represent? ______________

• What’s the minimum number of representatives a State can have? __________

• What State has the most representatives? ____________________________________

People’s Branch

• What’s the leader of the People’s Branch called? ___________________

• Who’s the representative from this area? _________________________

• What party is he a member of? ___________• How many representatives does our State

have? _____________• Therefore approximately how many residents

are there in Ct.? _________________

Representative Terms

• How long can one be a Representative? _____• How long is one term? ________________• How old do you have to be?• How long do you have to be a resident of your

area?• How long a citizen? ___________

The Other Branch-sometimes called the Upper Body

• What’s it’s name? _____________• How many members? _______________• How is membership divided up?_________• What is the leader of this branch called?

___________________• Who are our members of the Upper Body and

what party are they a member of?___________ __________________________ ________________

Getting to be in the Upper Body

• How long can one be a member of the Upper body ? _____

• How long is one term? ________________• How old do you have to be?• How long do you have to be a resident of your area?• How long a citizen? ___________• What is a FILIBUSTER?

______________________________________• Originally how did one get to be a member?• How is membership in the “club” determined today?

Creating the Constitution• What was the New Jersey Plan?

• What was the Virginia Plan?

• Which Plan favored highly Populated States?

What was the “Great Compromise”?

Why are Bills dealing with Taxing and Spending supposed to start in the People’s Body?

Once there how does it Operate

• Who makes the Rules for the Legislative Branch?

• Can you get elected and then not allowed to sit in Congress?

• Once there how do they divide up the work?• How is a legislator “assigned” work?• How does a bill go from an idea to a piece of

legislation?

Federalism Article I Section 8• What does the term Federalism mean?

• How does Art. I Section 8 reflect Federalism?

• What does Art. 1 Section 8 allow Congress to do other than the Commerce Clause and Necessary and Proper Clause?

• Why is the Necessary and Proper clause sometimes called the “Elastic Clause”?

• What is the Commerce Clause and give an example of how its been stretched?

Federalism Art. I Section 9

• What is the purpose of Article I Section 9?• How does that reflect the “limited” powers of

Congress?• Cite one Clause of the Article I Section 9?

Federalism Article I Section 10

• What is the purpose of Article I Section 10?

• How does it reflect Federalism?

• Cite one Clause of the Article I Section 10?

Responsibility for other projects

• What were the other projects about?• What was the “constitutional authority” that

allowed the House to legislate on this matter?• What were two commonalities of all the

sponsors of the bill?