Teacher Guide

The Constitution:  Counter Revolution or National Salvation? Document Analysis

Refer to the U.S. Constitution in your text and answer the following questions in your notebook.

Article I

1. What branch of government does Article I describe?
2. Identify the three requirements for a person to be eligible for election to the House of Representatives
3. Identify the three requirements for a person to be eligible for election to the Senate.
4. What is the term of office for a member of the House of Representatives? For the Senate?
5. Describe in your own words how a bill becomes a law.

Article II

1. What branch of government does Article II describe?
2. Describe the three requirements for a person to be eligible for election to the presidency.
3. What is the term of office for the president?
4. Describe in your own words how the president is elected.

Article III

1. What branch of government does Article III describe?
2. What is the name of the nation's highest court?
3. How many justices are on the nation's highest court?
4. How long do federal judges hold office?
5. List five kinds of cases that come under the judicial power of the United States courts

Article IV

1. What is this article about?
2. How can territory be admitted as a state

Article V

1. What is this article about?
2. What are the different ways this document be amended or changed?

Article VI

1. What is this article about?

Article VII

1. What is this article about?
2. How is the Constitution to be ratified by the states?