GOVT 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Direct Tax, Supremacy Clause, Jury Trial
18 Jun 2018
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The Constitution
•We the People: double meaning
•We the whole US (all Americans)
•We the people of the several states that decided to unite
•Article 1: Congress
•if you can vote for the House, you can vote in all elections
•direct tax: even the founders didn’t know what this means
•3/5 Compromise for taxes and representation
•3/5 of slave population counted in census
•every state equal in Senate
•not elected by people
•each senator gets one vote
•Federal government can get involved in elections
•Congressmen get paid out of US treasury money
•revenue bills must state in the House
•gives people control of government money (House is most representative)
•Congress. Can. Tax
•Necessary and Proper Clause
•Elastic Clause
•Congress can’t do anything about slavery until 1808 when the slave trade is set to end
•“ignore it and it will go away”
•Habeas Corpus can’t be suspended
•no taxing exports from states
•Section 10: Restrictions on states
•no entering treaties
•no chartering war ships
•no coining money
•no Bills of Attainder
•no ex Post Facto laws
•no inhibiting contracts
•no granting titles of nobility
