2/7/08
const test review

article 3 - sets up supreme ct, defines treason, other courts established by congress
article 4 - full faith and credit clause, guarantees to states, territorial integrity, aid in support of domestic violence, republican government
article 5 - method of amendment proposition (2/3 of both houses of congress or 2/3 of states ask congress to call convention to propose amendments) and ratification (3/4 of state legislatures or ratification conventions ratify)
article 6 - supremacy clause, national law wins, no religious test required for federal public office
amendment 5 - eminent domain, due process, right to a grand jury for capital crimes, double jeapordy, right not to incriminate self
amendment 6 - speedy public trial, confront witnesses, right to counsel, right to know accusations, require process to find witnesses on defendant's behalf
amendment 7 - right to trial by jury in civil cases, no fact retried by another jury or judge, 
amendment 8 - no cruel/unusual punishment, no excessive fines/bail
amendment 14 - 1st paragraph: born in US == citizen, priveleges and immunities for all citizens, due process for states, equal protection under the law
amendment 20 - changes start dates of congress and pres/vp, sets up pres succession if no pres on inauguration day
amendment 25 - vp BECOMES pres if pres dies/disabled, procedures for pres disability, procedures for replacing vp



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founders had different views on federalism
Alexander Hamilton - national supremacy
Thomas Jefferson - state power
federalists: John Marshall (3rd chief justice), George Washington, A. Hamilton
Marshall defended national supremacy
McCulloch Vs Maryland - 1819 - cashier of bank refused to pay tax on bank notes, supreme court upheld right of national government to control money and to do what was necessary to effect that (doctrine of implied powers), also states cannot tax instruments of the national government
implied powers -