The Constitution Then and Now

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Preamble

Set up Purpose

More Perfect Union

Justice

Domestic Transquility

General Welfare

Common Defense

Articles of the Constitution

House of Representatives and Senate - Legislative Branch

Requirements

Powers of Congress

Bill becoming a law

President and staff - Executive Branch

Courts - Judicial Branch

Power to Interpret laws

Can strike down a law that it considers to go against the Constitution

Articles 4-7 - Constitution and federal government supreme over state laws

Bill of Rights

First Amendment

Second Amendment - what does it mean?

Third Amendment - quartering still a concern?

3rd to 8th Amendments - rights of accused people

Future Amendments have mostly extended freedoms provided

Big Ideas in the Constitution

Separation of Powers

Checks and Balances

Federalism

Popular Sovereignty

Amending the Constitution

Proposal

Ratification

18th and 21st Amendments

Interpreting the Constitution

Marbury v. Madison - Judicial Review

Brown v. Board of Education - Separate and Not Equal

Heart of Atlanta Hotel v. US - Another step to equality

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