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Constitution Question-

1. Of which state are you a citizen?
 * //All persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. __14th Amendment Page 25__//**

2. Are you eligible for the House of Representatives? The Senate? The Presidency? If not, why not?
 * //I will be eligible when im old enough, but now I am not eligible for the House of Representatives, the Senate or President because you have to be twenty- five to be in the House of Representatives, Thirty-Five to be President and Thirty to be in the Senate.//** **//__Article 1 Section 2 Page 1, Article 2 Section 1 Page 10 and Article 1 Section 3 Page 3__//**

3. Bill Dodge, son of two United States citizens, was born in Niger during his parents’ African travels. Ousseini Abdoulaye was born in Niger on the very same day; Ousseini’s parents, however, were citizens of Niger. Ousseini later moves to the United States and becomes a United States citizen. Assume that both Bill and Ousseini are 40 years old and have lived in the United States for at least last 20 years. Is either Bill or Ousseini eligible to serve as President? __Article 2 section 1 Page 10__//**
 * //Bill Dodge can serve as president. Ousseini cannot become president because he wasn't a natural born citizen. Bill is a natural born citizen because his parents were US citizens.

4. The original Constitution contemplated the continuation of slavery in those states that permitted slavery as of 1787. Find the first instance of the word “slave” or “slavery” in the Consti- tution. If you don’t find either of these words in the original Constitution, what are the hints that the original Constitution contemplated and tolerated slavery?
 * //The First instance that found the word slavery was in Amendment 13. . Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.//** **//__Amendment__// //__13 Section 1 Page 24.__ The word Slave is found in __Amendment 14 Section 4 Page 27.__ It is also talked about in the 15 Amendment. __Amendment 15 Section 1 Page 27__//**

5. Assume that the free population of South Carolina in 1850 was 1 million, that its slave population was 500,000, and hat its untaxed Indian population was 100,000. For purposes of determining South Carolina’s representation in the House and direct tax obligations to the federal government, what was the population of South Carolina?
 * //North Carolina can have 5 representatives and the population that has 1,500,000 paying taxes. __Article 1 Section 2 Page 1 & 2 and Amendment 14 Section 2 Page 26.__//**

6. The Constitution refers to only three types of unlawful behavior, and a fourth may be inferred from the text of a general prohibition. Name all four.
 * //Piracies, Felonies committed on the high Seas, and offenses against the Law of Nations. __Article 1 Section 8 Page 6__//**

8. What is the only use of the word “right” in the original Constitution?
 * //To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive __Right__ to their respective Writings and Discoveries. __Article 1 Section 8 Page 6__//**

9. When is Inauguration Day? Is it the same as the first day of a new congressional term? __Amendment 20, Section 1 Page 29__//**
 * //Inauguration Day is on January 20th at noon. The first day of a new congressional term is January third.

10. What is the maximum time anyone may serve as Presi- dent?
 * //No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.//** **//( In other words 8 years)//** **//__Amendment 22 Section 1 Page 31__//**

11. What is the only part of the Constitution that may never be amended? //**the only part of the constitution that may never be amended is an amendment that in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article;**// //**and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate. __Article 5 Page 15__**//

13. Still speaking of amendments, how can they be made? (Name two methods.)
 * //The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress.// //__Article 5 Page 15__//**

14. José and Maria Nazarena are citizens of El Salvador. They enter the United States illegally. Maria then gives birth to Jesus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Consulting only the Constitu- tion, name one country of which Jesus is a citizen.
 * //Jesus is a citizen in El Salvador because his parents are citizens from there.//** **//__Article 2 Section 1 Page 10__//**

15. In a fit of pique, the President decides to skip this year’s State of the Union address. As White House legal counsel, what do you advise? //**I think he should adjorn the meeting and make it up at a later date. The Consitution states that: He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States. __Article 2 Section 3 Page 12__**//

16. In a fit of pique (probably provoked by the flap over the State of the Union address), the House begins debating a bill to cut the President’s pay and Supreme Court Justices’ pay. As counsel to the Speaker of the House, what do you advise? //**I would advise for them to reject the bill. They cannot increase or diminish the Presiden'ts pay and they cannot deminish the Supreme Courts pay. The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.**// //**__Article 2 Section 1 Page 11__ The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office. __Article 3 Section 1 Page 12__**//

20. You have 5 Hawaiian dollars in your purse or wallet...how much of that can you spend in CT? //**There is no such thing as Hawaiian dollars but if you are talking about the money used in Hawaii, the dollar, you can spend all five in Connecticut. This is stated here: No State shall**// //**enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation;**// //**grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal;**// //**coin Money;**// //**emit Bills of Credit;**// //**make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts;**// //**pass any Bill of Attainder,**// //**ex post facto Law, or**// //**Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or**// //**grant any Title of Nobility. __Article 1 Section 10 Page 8__**//

21. Speaking of purses, your cousin Rhonda left hers at your recent family reunion. Upon rifling through the purse, you dis- cover a certified mail receipt, a Confederate $10 bill, a District of Columbia driver’s license, a copy of the Koran, and a Susan B. Anthony dollar. Whatever their market value, these items make up a constitutional treasure trove. Find any and all constitutional provisions that relate to the contents of Rhonda’s purse. Inciden- tally, does it make a constitutional difference if you open the purse in your capacity as an FBI agent or if you are simply a nosy busybody?