Constitution Series

In a effort to more thoroughly understand our government and its structure, I started analyzing the United States Constitution line by line and publishing my findings. The result was a 37-part series, which was considerably beyond my expected scope. (I was expecting maybe 16 parts.)

I'm organizing the series here for easy reference.

CONSTITUTION SERIES

• The Creation of the Constitution of the United States of America
• The Preamble
• ARTICLE I: The Legislative Branch
• Section 1: Establishes Congress
• Section 2: Establishes the House of Representatives
• Section 3: Establishes the Senate
• Section 4: Congress's elections and meetings
• Section 5: Congress's procedures
• Section 6: Congress's compensation and restrictions
• Section 7: Additional procedures
• Section 8: Congress's explicit powers
• Clauses 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
• Section 9: Congress's explicit limitations
• Clauses 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
• Section 10: Limitations on state governments
• ARTICLE II: The Executive Branch
• Section 1: Establishes the President, elections, and compensation
• Clauses 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
• Section 2: Explicit powers of the President
• Clauses 1, 2, 3
• Section 3: Establishes the State of the Union Address
• Section 4: Impeachment requirements
• ARTICLE III: The Judiciary Branch
• Section 1: Establishes the federal court system
• Section 2: Establishes the jurisdiction of federal courts
• Clauses 1, 2, 3
• Section 3: Defines treason
• ARTICLE IV: State rights
• Section 1: Mutual sovereignty of states
• Section 2: Rights of state citizens
• Section 3: Creation of new states and Congressional authority over government property
• Section 4: Guarantee of national security
• ARTICLE V: Amendments to the Constitution
• ARTICLE VI: Etc (clauses that don't seem to fit anywhere else)
• ARTICLE VII: Ratification of the Constitution
• Signatures: President, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania (part 2)