CYBERLAND UNIVERSITY OF NORTH AMERICA
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr.
University President & Professor of Political Science
THIRD PAGE
POLITICAL SCIENCE 201B:
AMERICAN NATIONAL GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
REVIEW FOR EXAMINATION I
(Continued)
SECTION B: IDENTIFICATION EXERCISE
DIRECTIONS: Identify each of the following provisions of the United States Constitution:
1. "The Congress shall have power ... to make all laws which
shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution
the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this
Constitution in the government of the United States, or in
any department or officer thereof."
2. "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxies,
duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide
for the common defense and general welfare of the United
States."
3. "The Congress shall have power ... to regulate commerce
with foreign nations, and among the several states, and
with the Indian tribes."
4. This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which
shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made,
or which shall be made, under the authority of the United
States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges
in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Con-
stitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstand-
ing."
5. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Con-
stitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved
to the states respectively, or to the people."
6. "Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the
public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every
other state. And the Congress may by general laws prescribe
the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings
shall be approved, and the effect thereof."
7. "The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privi-
leges and immunities of citizens in the several states."
8. "A person charged in any state with treason, felony or other
crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another
state, shall on demand of the executive authority of the
state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to
the state having jurisdiction of the crime."
9. "New states may be admitted by Congress into this Union; but
no new state shall be formed or erected within the jurisdic-
tion of any other state; nor shall any state be formed by
the junction of two or more states, or parts of states,
without the consent of the legislatures of the states con-
cerned as well as of the Congress."
10. "... no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its
equal suffrage in the Senate."
11. "No state shall ... deprive any person of life, liberty, or
property, without due process of law...."
12. "No state shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdic-
tion the equal protection of the laws."
SECTION C: IDENTIFICATION EXERCISE
DIRECTIONS: Identify the federal constitutional provision which prohibits the states from doing each of the following:
1. Entering into treaties, alliances, or confederations with
foreign nations.
2. Making or enforcing a law abridging the "privileges and im-
munities of citizens of the United States."
3. Coining money and emitting bills of credit.
4. Denying or abridging the right of citizens to vote on ac-
count of race or color.
5. Making something other than gold or silver tender in payment
of debts.
6. Depriving a person of life, liberty, or property without due
process of law.
7. Passing bills of attainder and ex post facto laws.
8. Denying persons within their respective jurisdictions the
equal protection of the laws.
9. Passing laws impairing the obligation of contracts.
10. Denying or abridging the right of citizens to vote on ac-
count of sex.
11. Granting titles of nobility.
12. Denying or abridging the right of citizens to vote in feder-
al elections by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or
other tax.
13. Taxing imports without the consent of Congress.
14. Denying or abridging the right of citizens eighteen years of
age or older to vote on account of age.
15. Without the consent of Congress, keeping troops or ships of
war in time of peace.
16. Without the consent of Congress, engaging in war, unless
actually invaded or in such immediate danger as will not
admit of delay.
17. Without the consent of Congress, entering into agreements
or compacts with other states.
18. Without the consent of Congress, entering into agreements
with foreign powers.