The U.S. Constitution

Constitutional FAQ Answer #110 | Question Index | Subject Index | Constitutional Index | Next Question>> Q110. “Does the President have the authority to cancel the 1972 ABM treaty without the advise and consent of the senate? The power is given to the President to make treaties with the advise...

Constitutional FAQ Answer #111 | Question Index | Subject Index | Constitutional Index | Next Question>> Q111. “OK, I read the answer to Question 25 but I’m confused because of all the talk of military tribunals and loss of rights for terrorists caught in Afghanistan. What’s the deal?” A....

Constitutional FAQ Answer #112 | Question Index | Subject Index | Constitutional Index | Next Question>> Q112. “If titles of nobility are prohibited by the constitution, why then does the U.S. Supreme Court bestow the title of ‘honorable’ to the judges that at seated there? For that matter,...

Constitutional FAQ Answer #113 | Question Index | Subject Index | Constitutional Index | Next Question>> Q113. “What is the right to privacy and where can I find it in the Constitution?” A. The right to privacy is not a part of the Constitution, at least not in so many words. The right to...

Constitutional FAQ Answer #114 | Question Index | Subject Index | Constitutional Index | Next Question>> Q114. “I always thought that treason was the only crime defined in the Constitution, but a friend of mine insists it is not, though he refuses to say what the others are. Can you help?” A....

Constitutional FAQ Answer #115 | Question Index | Subject Index | Constitutional Index | Next Question>> Q115. “What is the impeachment process?” A. The Constitution details impeachment in Article 1, Section 2 , Article 1, Section 3 , Article 2, Section 3 , and Article 3, Section 2 . The word...

Constitutional FAQ Answer #103 | 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...

Constitutional FAQ Answer #104 | 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...

Constitutional FAQ Answer #105 | Question Index | Subject Index | Constitutional Index | Next Question>> Q105. “My local newspaper had an educational page about voting that showed all the things that had been decided by one vote. For example, it said that German was almost the official language...

Constitutional FAQ Answer #106 | Question Index | Subject Index | Constitutional Index | Next Question>> Q106. “I am unaware of the status of the Articles of Confederation, but for the sake of argument, if my some outside chance Canada formally asked to become part of the union, would the United...

Constitutional FAQ Answer #107 | Question Index | Subject Index | Constitutional Index | Next Question>> Q107. “Where does the C.I.A. get their power and authority?” A. The CIA, and a whole host of other government agencies, fall under the Executive Branch. Their power, then, comes from the...

Constitutional FAQ Answer #108 | Question Index | Subject Index | Constitutional Index | Next Question>> Q108. “Who has the power to declare war?” A. There is a short answer and a much longer answer. The short answer is that the Constitution clearly grants the Congress the power to declare war,...

Constitutional FAQ Answer #109 | Question Index | Subject Index | Constitutional Index | Next Question>> Q109. “Why did Rhode Island not send delegates to the Constitutional Convention?” A. Rhode Island was afraid that any new system proposed by the convention would be detrimental to its...

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...

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...

Constitutional FAQ Answer #1 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...

Constitutional FAQ Answer #10 | 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,...

Constitutional FAQ Answer #100 | 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...

Constitutional FAQ Answer #101 | 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...

Constitutional FAQ Answer #102 | 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...