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The U.S Constitution Article 1

Sections 6-10 Group 2 . The U.S Constitution Article 1. Section 6 . All of the Representatives and Senators will get paid and not be arrested if in session in their respective houses. They shall not be questioned in any other place accept a speech or debate.

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The U.S Constitution Article 1

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  1. Sections 6-10 Group 2  The U.S Constitution Article 1

  2. Section 6  • All of the Representatives and Senators will get paid and not be arrested if in session in their respective houses. They shall not be questioned in any other place accept a speech or debate. • No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the united states, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time: and no person holding any office under the United States, shall be a member of either House during his continuance in office.

  3. Section 7 • Every bill must be approved by the Senate, House of Representatives, and the president of the United States. • The president has the option to veto the bill which can be overruled if the house gets two-thirds of the votes. • Every resolution, bill, or order shall be represented to the president. The same procedure will happen. The president can veto it and two thirds of the party can over rule it.

  4. Section 8  • The congress has the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States. • To make all laws • To establish post offices and post roads • To borrow money on the credit of the United States • To regulate commerce with foreign nations • To coin money • To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting • To declare war

  5. Section 8 • To raise and support armies • To provide and maintain a navy • To make rules for the government • To provide for calling forth the militia • To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper • To exercise exclusive legislation • To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States

  6. Section 9  Section 10  • places certain limits on Congress. • Certain legal items, such as suspension of habeas corpus, bills of attainder, and ex post facto laws are prohibited. • No law can give preference to one state over another; • no money can be taken from the treasury except by duly passed law, • no title of nobility, such as Prince or Marquis, will ever be established by the government • states cannot make their own money, or declare war, or do most of the other things prohibited Congress in Section 9. • States cannot tax goods from other states, or can they have navies.

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