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This clause, commonly known as the "Property Clause" or "Territorial Clause", grants Congress the constitutional authority for the management and control of all territories or other property owned by the United States. Additionally, the clause also proclaims that nothing contained within the Constitution may be interpreted to harm (prejudice ...
The United States Constitution and its amendments comprise hundreds of clauses which outline the functioning of the United States Federal Government, the political relationship between the states and the national government, and affect how the United States federal court system interprets the law. When a particular clause becomes an important ...
The Guarantee Clause, also known as the Republican Form of Government Clause, is in Article IV, Section 4 of the United States Constitution. It requires the United States to guarantee every state a republican form of government and provide protection from foreign invasion and domestic violence.
A similar clause existed in Article IV of the Articles of Confederation, the predecessor to the U.S. Constitution: "Full faith and credit shall be given in each of these States to the records, acts, and judicial proceedings of the courts and magistrates of every other State."
Article One, Section 9, Clause 1 prevents Congress from passing any law that would restrict the importation of slaves into the United States prior to 1808, plus the fourth clause from that same section, which reiterates the Constitutional rule that direct taxes must be apportioned according to state populations. These clauses were explicitly ...
Unlike the U.S. Constitution, the Constitution of the Confederate States mentioned slavery by name and specified African Americans as the subject. It contained a much more rigid form of the Fugitive Slave Clause. In 1864, during the Civil War, an effort to repeal this clause of the Constitution failed. [16]
Article Three of the United States Constitution vests the judicial power of the federal government in the Supreme Court. [54] The Judiciary Act of 1789 implemented Article III by creating a hierarchy under which circuit courts consider appeals from the district courts and the Supreme Court has appellate authority over the circuit courts. [55]
The United States Congress, whenever a two-thirds majority in both the Senate and the House deem it necessary; or. A national convention, called by Congress for this purpose, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds (presently 34) of the states. [3] [4] The latter procedure has never been used.