U. S. Government Structure Level II: A Federal Citizenship and Naturalization TextDIANE Publishing, 1994 - 103 halaman Designed especially for persons seeking to become citizens of the U.S. Can be used to help the reader prepare for the naturalization exams. The main focus is on understanding the heritage and development of the U.S. and its system of gov't. Describes the basis of the U.S. gov't. -- the Constitution. Discusses the 3 branches of the U.S. government and the importance, duties, and authority of each. The types of government -- federal, state and local -- are explained and compared. Contains learning objectives, a glossary and review questions. Illustrated. |
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... He or she ad- ministers the federal government and enforces fed- eral laws . • The Vice President presides over the Senate and votes in case of a tie . He or she becomes President if the President is disabled or otherwise cannot serve ...
... He or she ad- ministers the federal government and enforces fed- eral laws . • The Vice President presides over the Senate and votes in case of a tie . He or she becomes President if the President is disabled or otherwise cannot serve ...
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... he or she may run for President in the election . Presidential elections occur every four years . Presidential candidates are chosen by their political par- ties in the months before the election . A political party is a group of people ...
... he or she may run for President in the election . Presidential elections occur every four years . Presidential candidates are chosen by their political par- ties in the months before the election . A political party is a group of people ...
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... he / she will serve ; and , have lived in the United States at least 14 years . The Constitution established that the Vice President would be the person who received the second highest number of elec- toral votes , but that did not work ...
... he / she will serve ; and , have lived in the United States at least 14 years . The Constitution established that the Vice President would be the person who received the second highest number of elec- toral votes , but that did not work ...
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... he / she wants to become a law . The exception is that only Representatives may introduce tax or budget bills . • A committee of the House of Congress in which the bill was introduced studies the bill . The bill can be : amended ...
... he / she wants to become a law . The exception is that only Representatives may introduce tax or budget bills . • A committee of the House of Congress in which the bill was introduced studies the bill . The bill can be : amended ...
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... he / she represents . The House of Representatives is set up differently from the Senate . It also has different qualifications . • • - The House of Representatives has 435 members ( Representatives ) . The number of Representatives ...
... he / she represents . The House of Representatives is set up differently from the Senate . It also has different qualifications . • • - The House of Representatives has 435 members ( Representatives ) . The number of Representatives ...
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Halaman 71 - To establish post offices and post roads; To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court; To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and...
Halaman 87 - Section 4. The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever the right of choice may have devolved upon them...
Halaman 84 - Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President ; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United States.
Halaman 86 - SECTION 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. SECTION 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
Halaman 78 - The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so, construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular state. SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union, a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and on application of the legislature, or of the...
Halaman 90 - President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President. Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office...
Halaman 77 - No person held to service or labour in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labour, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labour may be due. Section 3. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State ; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more...
Halaman 70 - All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives ; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.
Halaman 87 - January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
Halaman 74 - No person except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.