CYBERLAND UNIVERSITY OF NORTH AMERICA

Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr.

University President & Professor of Political Science

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POLITICAL SCIENCE 201B:

AMERICAN NATIONAL GOVERNMENT & POLITICS


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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.

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