The amazing, ever flexible document!
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A statement of purpose
 “more perfect Union”?
 “establish justice”
 “insure domestic tranquility”
 “provide for the common defense”
 “promote the general welfare”
“…do ordain and establish this Constitution for the
United States of America”
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Legislative (Article I)
 Makes the laws
▪ Section 1: Electoral College
▪ Section 2: House of
Representatives
▪ Section 3: Senate
▪ Money Bills
▪ Section 1, Article 8:
*Necessary and Proper!!!!
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Executive (Article II)
 Enforces the laws
▪ Section 2: Presidential Power
▪ Section 4: Impeachment
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Judicial (Article III)
 Interpretes the laws
▪ Section 1: Judicial Power
▪ Judiciary Act of 1789
 Declared unconstitutional
 Replaced by Judiciary Act of
1801
 MARBURY VS. MADISON!
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Article IV
 Section 2
▪ Fugitive Slave Laws
 Section 3
▪ Admission of States
▪ (Northwest Ordinance)
*10TH AMENDMENT
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Amendment 1: Freedom of speech
Amendment 2: Right to bear arms
Amendment 3: Quartering of Troops
Amendment 4: Search and Seizure
Amendment 5: Self incrimination, due process
Amendment 6: Right to counsel
Amendment 7: Jury trial
Amendment 8: Cruel and unusual punishment
Amendment 9: Non-enumerated rights
Amendment 10: STATES RIGHTS (Reserved Powers)
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George Washington as first president
 Electoral vote (Electoral College)
 Washington’s Cabinet
 Judiciary Act of 1789
▪ Supreme Court, John Jay
▪ Attorney General
▪ Force president to appoint judges – unconstitutional
(replaced in 1801)
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Report on Public Credit, 1790
 BE FAT
▪ Funding at par
▪ Assumption of state debts
▪ Tariffs
▪ Protective tariffs on manufacturing
▪ Excise Tax
▪ Whiskey
▪ National Bank
▪ Use of the “elastic clause”
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Federalist versus Anti-Federalist
 Hamilton versus Jefferson (Treasury and State)
▪ Strong central government versus State’s rights
▪ Federalists versus Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans
(by 1800)
▪ Don’t confuse Federalists of 1787!
 Washington’s Farewell Address, 1796
▪ Warns against Political Parties
▪ Entangling Alliances
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Whiskey Rebellion, 1794
 “Whiskey Boys”
 “No taxation without representation”
 Comparison to Shay’s Rebellion
IT WORKS!!!!!
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Federalists versus Anti-Federalist
 Proclamation of Neutrality, 1793
▪ Citizen Genet
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▪ Jay Treaty (French point of view?), 1794
▪ Creation of Democratic-Republics
▪ Impressment of Americans!
▪ Pinckey Treaty of 1795
▪ Right of deposit at the Port of New Orleans
▪ Treaty of Greenville, 1795
▪ First treaty with Native Americans
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Cabinet positions
Supreme Court (Federal Court System)
Proclamation of Neutrality
Two terms of office
Farewell Address