01:790:106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: United States Constitution, Supremacy Clause, Twenty-Seventh Amendment To The United States Constitution

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: 01:790:106
• Professor: Professor Wollenberg

Document Summary

Just as the gov"t makes laws for its citizens, so does the constitution make rules for the gov"t. Words of the constitution have not changed since 1787. Constitution can only be changed by amendment. Blueprint for gov"t creates and limits the federal government. Fundamental law that sets up rules for how other kinds of laws can be made. 50% thinks the president can suspend the constitution in time of war or national emergency. 57% think the constitution requires school children to say the pledge of allegiance. Nearly half think this phrase is in the constitution: from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs . What else isn"t in the constitution: democracy, separation of church and state , right to privacy, right to an education, one person, one vote, political parties, god. Written in 1777 by the continental congress. A loose association of states with little power for the national government.