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different executive departments? (See note, p. 151.) Reprieves and pardons? The making of treaties?
Appointment of ambassadors? Judges of the Supreme Court, etc.? Filling vacancies?]
SECTION III. He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union, and
recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on
extraordinary occasions, convene both houses, or either of them, and in case of disagreement between them
with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper; he shall
receive ambassadors and other public ministers; he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and
shall commission all the officers of the United States.
[Footnote: Section 3. Defines the duties of the President, Name these duties with regard (1) to Congress, (2)
to ambassadors, and (3) to United States officers? (Note. Washington and Adams in person read their
messages to Congress; the present plan of sending the message by a private secretary was commenced by
Jefferson.)]
SECTION IV. The President, Vice-President, and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed
from office on impeachment for, and conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
[Footnote: Section 4. For what crimes and in what way may any United States officer be removed from
office?]
ARTICLE III. JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT.
SECTION I. The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such
inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The judges, both of the Supreme
and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behavior, and shall, at stated times, receive for their
services a compensation which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.
[Footnote: ARTICLE III. Section 1. In what is the judicial power of the United States vested? (Note. The
judicial power is that of interpreting and applying the laws.) How long do the judges hold office? Can their
salary be changed during their term of office?]
[Footnote: Section 2 defines the jurisdiction of the United States Courts. Name the cases to which the judicial
power of the United States extends. In what cases does the Supreme Court have original jurisdiction?
Appellate jurisdiction? What is the law with regard to trial by jury? Where must such a trial be held? Where
may a crime be committed not within a state ? (Notes. The Supreme Court consists of a chief justice and
eight associate justices. The salary of the chief-justice is $10,500 and that of an associate $10,000 per
annum. This court meets at Washington annually on the first Wednesday in December. A citizen of the
District of Columbia, within the meaning of the Constitution as above, is not a citizen of a state. By original
jurisdiction is meant the court in which the case begins; by appellate, is indicated a trial after an appeal from a
lower court.)]
SECTION II.
ARTICLE III. JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT. 195
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CLAUSE 1. The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution,
the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority; to all cases
affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls; to all cases of admiralty and maritime
jurisdiction; to controversies to which the United States shall be a party; to controversies between two or
more States; between a State and citizens of another State; between citizens of different States; between
citizens of the same State claiming lands under grants of different States, and between a State, or the citizens
thereof, and foreign states, citizens, or subjects.
CLAUSE 2. In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a State
shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the
Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions and under such
regulations as the Congress shall make.
CLAUSE 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be
held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State,
the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed.
SECTION III.
CLAUSE 1. Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering
to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
[Footnote: Section 3. In what does treason consist? What proof is required? Who fixes the punishment? What
limit is assigned?]
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