Living Constitution

Introduction to the Constitution

• Preamble

• Congress

• checks and balances

• Senate

National legislature

• Parliament
• Congress
• Assembly
• Council

Lower house of the national legislature

• Senate
• House of Commons
• House of Lords
• House of Representatives

Upper house of the national legislature

• House of Commons
• Congress
• Parliamentary Assembly
• Senate

Provisions of the Constitution that keep one branch of the government from controlling the other two branches

• Branch division
• implied powers

• enumerated powers

• Checks and balances

Powers specifically granted in the Constitution

• enumerated powers

• implied powers

• elastic clauses

• checks and balances

Powers not specifically stated in the Constitution

• enumerated powers

• implied powers

• elastic clauses

• Senate

Clause in the Constitution that allows Congress to pass laws necessary to carry out its enumerated powers

• implied

• enumerated

• elastic clauses

• Preamble

President of the United States

• chief executive

• electoral college

• succession

• Supreme Court

Electors chosen by the states to elect the president and vice president

• electoral college

• chief executive

• Supreme Court

• judicial power