POL 201 Lecture : Copy these to notebook.docx

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 201
• Professor: Sylvia Thompson

Document Summary

In writing the constitution, they decided that leaving it vague was best because it would cause less controversy and not become outdated for a long time: see copy of the constitution, started out with a preamble (introduction saying why they are making it doing it in order to form a more perfect union; talking about the purpose of government/ social order, article 1 enumerating national law making powers to congress; about the legislative branch, article 2 about the president and the executive branch: enforce laws; carry them out and implement them, article 3 judicial branch; interpret laws, article 4 a little bit of a description of what the relationship will be between the individual state governments and with the national government, article 5 describes the process to amend the us constitution, article 6 relationship between the national government and the state governments; miscellaneous, article 7 ratification of the constitution (9/13 states)