Clause Constitution facts
While investigating facts about Clause Constitution, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Benjamin Franklin helped to create Impeachment Clause of US Constitution as he recognized that if a president were to "render himself obnoxious", the logical yet less ideal alternative to an impeachment would be an assassination
Freedom of Speech clause of the US Constitution specifically refers only to the government restricting your freedom of speech, not other people.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 19 of the best facts about Clause Constitution I managed to collect.
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New Zealand is officially able to join Australia at any time, via a clause in Australia's Constitution.
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There is a clause in the U.S. Constitution that allows state legislatures to pass a constitutional amendment without Congress. It's called an Article V Convention, and has never been used.
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The word 'slavery" is never used in the section about the Fugitive Slave Clause, or anywhere else in the Constitution.
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A family got out of a binding arbitration clause by submitting a contract addendum with a renewal check. Depositing the check constituted agreement to the new contract terms.
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The Constitution's Supremacy Clause, which says that when federal and state laws disagree, federal law wins
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The German constitution has an eternity clause that prevent changes of its fundamental core values
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The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to the US Constitution in terms of State's Rights - including the Supremacy Clause.
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About the German eternity clause, a constitutional article that states that any law or constitutional amendment that alters the basic principles of German democracy is considered invalid.
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When drafted, the Constitution had an explicit clause prohibiting Congress from banning the slave trade. Interestingly, the clause also states the Federal Government can not charge more than a duty of 10 dollars per slave.
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Interracial marriage was technically illegal in Alabama until 2000 (although unenforceable due to Loving v Virginia). In the 2000 referendum, only 59% of people voted in favour of removing these anti-miscegenation clauses from the state constitution
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The Constitution of the Confederate States of America included a clause that limited laws and resolutions to one subject expressed in the law's title, preventing complicated amendments and riders.
In the 1850's, Oregon banned blacks from immigrating, repealed the law, then later included in their constitution clauses that blacks could not immigrate, nor own real estate or sue in court. - source
What is 13th documentary movie about?
The purpose of the film is to shed light on an inhumane clause in the 13th amendment of the United States constitution. The following statement legalizes slavery through criminalization.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. - source
U.S. Supreme Court common law classifies Native Americans as a political group, not a racial or ethnic minority. Accordingly,the constitutional protections afforded by the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th and 5th Amendments do not apply to Native Americans. See Morton v. Mancari (1974)
There is a "dictatorship clause" in the US Constitution - source
Because of a clause in the US Constitution, anything a Congressman says in Congress can be said without being prosecuted for it. This clause was used when Alaskan senator Mike Gravel read 4100 pages of the leaked Pentagon Papers in Congress to legally expose the truth surrounding the Vietnam War
The 3/5 Compromise, put in the US Constitution in 1787, was a North/South settlement to only partly count black slaves in a state's population. Anti-slave states wanted to not count the slaves as people, while slave states did. This clause, while dead lettered, is still technically in effect.