Clips

Clips of Documents on the Wiki for quick reference

• Preamble (Constitution)
• Enumerated Powers, Article 1 Section 8
• Commerce Clause, Article 1 Section 8 (3)
• Necessary and Proper Clause, Article 1 Section 8 (18)
• Article. V.
• Article. VI.
• Amendment I (1st)
• Amendment II (2nd)
• Amendment IX (9th)
• Amendment X (10th)

• Anti-Federalist Views of the proposed Constitution
• Federalist Views of the proposed Constitution

• Convention Rules
• Definitions of types of Conventions
• Non-preemption (agencies) Prevent administrative agencies from preempting state law.
• Objections to Article V are Meritless
• Overcoming Objections from Anti-Constitutionalists
• State Legislatures May Limit Their Applications to a Single Subject
• The Congressional Role in Calling the Convention
• The COS Plan
• The Necessary and Proper Clause Does Not Authorize Congress to Structure the Convention.
• The States called the 1787 Convention
• Types of Conventions
• Why the Founders Adopted the Proposal Convention in Article V