Unit 3 Review - Principles and Clauses

The national government must observe fair procedures when depriving a person of life, liberty, or property.

• Due Process, 13th Amendment

• Due Process, 5th Amendment

• Extradition Clause

• Elastic Clause

Congress can exercise non-stated power in a "necessary and proper" manner while executing expressed powers.

• Elastic Clause

• Commerce Clause

• Bill of Attainder

• Privileges and Immunities Clause

Congress cannot ban freedom of worship.

• Free Exercise Clause, 1st Amendment

• Full Faith and Credit Clause

• Establishment Clause, 1st Amendment

• Elastic Clause

States must recognize the validity of the acts, records, court decisions, etc of other states.

• Full Faith and Credit Clause

• Contracts Clause

• Bill of Attainder

• Elastic Clause

Defines the constitution's purpose: form a more perfect union; establish justice; ensure domestic tranquility; provide for the common defense; promote the general welfare; secure liberty to posterity.

• Ex Post Facto Clause

• Preamble

• Elastic Clause

• Due Process, 14th Amendment

Powers not granted to the national government or denied from the states, are automatically the state's.

• Reserved Powers Clause, 10th Amendment

• Privileges and Immunities Clause

• Full Faith and Credit Clause

• Equal protection Clause, 14th Amendment

Authorities can only search in accordance with proper procedures (warrants).

• Due Process, 5th Amendment

• Search and Seizure Clause, 4th Amendment

• Equal protection Clause, 14th Amendment

• Bill of Attainder

Federal law is supreme over state law.

• Contracts Clause

• Elastic Clause

• Supremacy Clause

• Commerce Clause

Allows Congress to make any laws that they need to for carrying out their other powers

• Establishment Clause

• Privileges and Immunities Clause

• Supremacy Clause

• Necessary and Proper Clause

Gives the Constitution precedent over state laws and state constitutions

• Establishment Clause

• Privileges and Immunities Clause

• Supremacy Clause

• Necessary and Proper Clause