Articles IV+ Questions
Answer the following questions the Constitution in your e-book.
Use the annotated material in the margins if you can’t find answers in the actual Constitution.
Everyone should type their own answers on their own doc, but it is encouraged that you find answers together.
Article IV
What is the main idea of this article? This article explains the relationship of the states to one another and to the national government.
What is the first sentence of Art. IV, Section 1? What does that mean? Give an example. The first sentence of Art. IV, Section 1 states, “Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings …show more content…
(do the math) Aprroval from 38 states is needed to ratify an amendment.
What two exclusions were included concerning amendments? No amendment could be made before the year 1808 that affects the slave trade, and no state could be deprived of equal representation in the Senate without its consent.
Article VI
What did the first clause of Article VI do? The first clause of Article VI states that all debts the country aquiered under the Articles of Confederation will still need to belong to the United States and need to be payed off.
What exactly shall be the supreme law of land? “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land.”
What is prohibited in Art. VI, Section 3? A religious test to qualify for public office is prohibited in Art. VI, Section 3.
Article VII+
What “shall be sufficient” to establish this Constitution? Aprroval from the conventions of nine states “shall be sufficient” to ratify the Constitution.
What day was the Constitution signed? The constitution was signed on the seventeenth day of