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Article 1 Section 2 Clause 1 |
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| Section Two provides for the election of the House of Representatives every second year. |
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Article 1 Section 3 Clause 1 |
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| Section Three provides that each state is entitled to two Senators chosen for a term of six years. |
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Article 1 Section 2 Clause 5 |
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| Section Two further provides that the House of Representatives may choose its Speaker and its other officers. Section Two grants to the House of Representatives the sole power of impeachment. |
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Article 1 Section 3 Clause 6 |
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The Senate is granted the sole power to try impeachments. The senators must sit on oath or affirmation. The Chief Justice presides whenever the President of the United States is tried. A two-thirds supermajority of those Senators "present" is required to convict. |
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Article 1 Section 8 Clause 1 |
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| The Congress shall have 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; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States. |
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Article 1 Section 8 Clause 11 |
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| The Congress has the power to declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water. |
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Article 1 Section 8 Clause 3 |
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| Congress has the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes. |
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Article 2 Section 2 Clause 2 |
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| Article Five of the United States Constitution describes the process whereby the Constitution may be altered. Such amendments may be proposed by the United States Congress or by a national convention assembled at the request of the legislatures of at least two-thirds of the several states. To become valid, amendments must then be ratified by either the legislatures of or ratifying conventions held in three-fourths of the several states, and may not deny a state equal representation in the Senate without its consent. However, an amendment that removes this entrenchment clause from the amendment process may enable a subsequent amendment to deny a state its equal representation in the Senate without its consent. |
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