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Constitutional FAQ Answer #104 <<Previous Question | Question Index | Subject Index | Constitutional Index | Next Question>> Q104. “On what day does the electoral college meet to cast their votes? I have heard early January, but I have also heard December.” A. By law it is in December: “The electors … shall meet and…

Constitutional FAQ Answer #103 <<Previous Question | Question Index | Subject Index | Constitutional Index | Next Question>> Q103. “I have heard that the U.S. Constitution is based on a document called the ‘Iroquois Confederation’. Is this true, and if so what parts of the Constitution came from this document?” A. The U.S. Constitution is…

Constitutional FAQ Answer #102 <<Previous Question | Question Index | Subject Index | Constitutional Index | Next Question>> Q102. “Much controversy is being made over the First Amendment and religion especially in recent years. Were all the men who wrote and signed the Constitution and the Bill of Rights Christians? If not what other religions…

Constitutional FAQ Answer #101 <<Previous Question | Question Index | Subject Index | Constitutional Index | Next Question>> Q101. “Exactly where in the Constitution does it say that the President and Vice President cannot be from the same state? In the 12th amendment the wording leads me to think that the electors and the candidates…

Constitutional FAQ Answer #100 <<Previous Question | Question Index | Subject Index | Constitutional Index | Next Question>> Q100. “Recently, I read in my Constitutional Law textbook, that two framers of the Constitution served as Supreme Court chief justices. However, my professor and I could only recall one, John Rutledge. Who was the second framer…

Constitutional FAQ Answer #10 <<Previous Question | Question Index | Subject Index | Constitutional Index | Next Question>> Q10. “I need to know how many articles and amendments are related to economics in the Constitution?” A. Depends on what you mean by economics. The Constitution doesn’t say, for example, that the budget needs to be…

Constitutional FAQ Answer #1 <<Previous Question | Question Index | Subject Index | Constitutional Index | Next Question>> Q1. “…a friend of mine, another college student at a different university, is a political science major. He was told by several ‘reliable sources’ that voters under the age of 21 do not actually vote for the…

Constitutional FAQ (Constitution Order) Advertisement The U.S. Constitution On-Line has been online in one form or another since 1995. In that time, I have have had a lot of questions asked of me about the Constitution. This page, and the ones it links to, are a compilation of the best of those questions. This page…

Answers From the FAQ, Page 9 This page is one of the answer pages for the USConstitution.net’s Constitutional FAQ. There have been so many questions and answers over the years, that it was best to split them among several files. If you’re looking for the question list, you can find it in three places. First,…

Answers From the FAQ, Page 8 This page is one of the answer pages for the USConstitution.net’s Constitutional FAQ. There have been so many questions and answers over the years, that it was best to split them among several files. If you’re looking for the question list, you can find it in three places. First,…