ARTICLE I

THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

The Senate (upper house) The House of Representatives
2 Representatives per state (lower house)
Leader of the Senate is known Each state is represented
as President of the Senate. proportionally based on their
President of the Senate is the population
Vice President. Leader of the House is known as
the Speaker of the House.

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Qualifications of Senators Qualifications for House

Both Representatives
must live
in the
state they
represent
old US citizen for at US citizen for
least 9 years old at least 7 years

Powers of the Senate powers of the House

The power to try all Create taxes Impeach Choose their
impeachments speaker/other
officers
New sessions
of Congress
begin on
January 3rd
Powers of Congress
The Necessary and Proper Clause states that Congress can make
whatever laws they think are necessary for the country's well-being.

Create citizenship, Collect taxes, print Create lower Manage trade with Create laws for
bankruptcy, money, set the federal courts countries and the seas and
copyright and value of money and states maintain a navy
patent laws borrow money

Powers Denied to Congress

Cannot say a person is No taxes can be Cannot create a law and 1

Cannot hold a
guilty of a crime and placed on goods arrest people for doing
prisoner without
punish them without a shipped out of the an action when it was
just cause (habeas
trial (Bill of attainder) country not a crime (ex post
corpus)
facto law)