Should Japan be released from following Article 9 in it's constitution?
Should Japan be released from following Article 9 in it's constitution so that they can join the United State in fighting terrorist Muslim Organizations and be able to avenge their people being brutally murdered?
Explain Article 2 of the Constitution?
Article I establishes the legislative branch of government. Congress makes the laws. Article II establishes the executive branch of government. The president is the chief executive. The exec branch implements the laws. Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 says that the Electoral College consists of electors chosen from each state. Each state gets the same number of electors as it has membes of Congress. Each state has two Senators and at least one House member. So each state has at least 3 electors. You don't say what state you're from, but you can see the number of House members each state has at this link http://house.gov/representatives/ Alabama has 9 electors Alaska has 3 California has 55 The District of Columbia has the same number of electors as it would have members of Congress, if it had members of Congress. That's 3. There are 100 senators, 435 house members. That's 535 members of Congress. Plus 3 for DC, that's 538 members of the Electoral college. Read this. http://www.archives.gov/federal-register... Sections 3 and 4 are really self-explanatory. READ THEM, one phrase at a time.
Which of the following is not an exclusive constitutional power granted only to the Senate?
Ratifying treaties Confirming Supreme Court appointments Originating legislation for raising revenue Conducting impeachment trials Confirming ambassadorial appointments
When should the United States think about writing a new constitution?
I broadly read this as asking when should we completely rewrite the constitution.My answer is when one or more of the following happens:De facto drift of the interpretation becomes so profound that supreme court's decisions starts to ignore the original intent. There is a definite entropy in the legal system, due to creative interpretation of the US Constitution. A new constitution that is designed to be procedurally unassailable will be needed to reinvigorate the spirit of the original US constitution.Human beings changed at fundamental level. If needs, wants, and power dynamics change between among men, current constitution may have to change. Human beings don't live on sunlight and water yet, so I don't think it's time yet.When Americans no longer desire freedom. I am not joking here, part of US constitution, the Bill of Rights is pretty much the only thing that is keeping the expansion of police state and tyranny at bay.When the executive branch becomes even more powerful. The framers of the Constitution thought that the legislative branch would become tyrannical, so the Constitution was designed to keep their powers in check. The Articles of US Constitution is fairly lax when it comes to limiting the powers of the executive branch. I would welcome revising the parts of the Article II to limit the powers of the executive branch.Thanks for reading.
Which article in the constitution defines the presidents power?
The Constitution and several of its ammendments actually spell out the powers that each branch has. The following are the sections that apply to the President. Article. II. Secton 1 Clause: 1 - 8 Secion 2 Clause 1 - 3 Section 3 & 4 Ammendment XII. Ammendment XX. Secton 1 & 3 Ammendment XXII. Section 1 Ammendment XXIII. Section 1 Ammendment XXV. Sectoin 1 - 4.
Why do we follow a constitution, written by white wealthy slave owners, who saw woman and people of color as inferior?
Interesting question. I know from their writings that both Washington and Jefferson wrestled with this question throughout their careers. In the case of Washington, he actually took some measures to deal with the conflicting issues of liberty and freedom vis-a-vis the practice of slavery, freeing some of his slaves and sending them abroad to be properly educated for life as free men. He also hired a free black man, a surveyor named Benjamin F. Banneker, to design for him a capitol city, which we now know as Washington, D.C. Interestingly also, Washington never bought or sold slaves---he inherited them from his father's estate and as part of his wife's dowry. In his will, Washington mandated that ALL his slaves were to be freed upon the deaths of himself and his wife. Those who were too old or too ill to leave the plantation were to be cared for in perpetuity by Washington's estate until their deaths. Except for his mistress, Sally Hemmings and their children, Jefferson never acted on his reservations about the practice of slavery.The First Continental Congress of 1776 nearly came to blows over the issue of slavery, which by that time had proven quite profitable to the fledgling nation's early economy, especially the agrarian economy of the Southern states.The erroneous notions regarding the "inferiority" of people of color, was merely a contrivance for justifying the immoral but lucrative practice of chattel slavery---in a word, GREED. Thus was created the made-up, socio-political construct of "race." People of color were singled out for this purpose because their coloring made them easy to visually identify and set apart from mainstream white society. The earlier practice of indentured servitude, which included whites, was abandoned in favor of the sole enslavement of blacks.