PREAMBLE

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8 Parts of the Constitution
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Slide 1 - Home Slide Slide 2 Objectives Slide
3 Preamble Slide 4 Legislative Branch Slide
5 Executive Branch Slide 6 Judicial
Branch Slide 7 State Relationships Slide 8
Changing the Constitution Slide 9 National
Supremacy Slide 10 - Ratifying the
Constitution
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• Objectives

• Define the main purpose of the Constitution
• Describe the 8 parts of the Constitution
• Identify the 3 branches of government
• Explain the process of amending the Constitution
• Describe and explain the ratification process

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PREAMBLE
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• Explains why the document is in existence

Form a more perfect union (1) Establish
justice (2) Insure domestic tranquility
(3) Provide for the common defense (4)
Promote the general welfare (5) Secure the
blessings of liberty (6)
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ARTICLE I
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• Establishes the legislative branch of government

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Congress
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ARTICLE II
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• Establishes the executive branch of government

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ARTICLE III
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• Establishes the judicial branch of government

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ARTICLE IV
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• Explains the relationship of the states to one
  another and to the federal government

• Each State to honor all others
• State citizens, extradition
• New states
• Republican government

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ARTICLE V
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• Explains how the Constitution can be amended or
  changed

Proposal of Amendments
Ratifying the Amendments

• If two-thirds of both houses
• approve.
• As an alternative, two-thirds
• of the state legislatures can
• ask Congress to hold a
• national convention for
• proposing amendments.

• Amendments become part of the
• Constitution when they are ratified or
• approved by three-fourths of the state
• legislatures.
• Beginning with amendment 19, an
• amendment must be ratified within 7
• years.

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ARTICLE VI
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• Ensuring national supremacy

The Constitution, laws and treaties made under
the authority of the United States shall be The
Supreme Law Of The Land.
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ARTICLE VII
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• Ratifying the Constitution

December 7, 1787 Delaware December 12,
1787 Pennsylvania December 18, 1787 New
Jersey January 9, 1788 Connecticut
February 2, 1788 Georgia
February 6, 1788 Massachusetts April
28, 1788 Maryland May 23,
1788 South Carolina June 21, 1788
New Hampshire June 25, 1788
Virginia July 26, 1788 New
York November 21, 1789 North Carolina May
29, 1790 Rhode Island
Before the Constitution could go into effect,
specially called conventions in at least nine
states had to ratify or approve it.
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