Important Clauses

Question 1

commerce clause

Answer 1

to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes

Question 2

necessary and proper clause

Answer 2

congress has the power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into the execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this constitution in the government of the united states

Question 3

full faith and credit clause

Answer 3

addresses the duties that states within the United States have to respect the “public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state.”

Question 4

guarantee clause

Answer 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 Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence.

Question 5

supremacy clause

Answer 5

establishes that the Constitution, federal laws made pursuant to it, and treaties made under its authority, constitute the supreme law of the land