The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-03-12
CITIZENSHIP COLUMN
Chapter xVII-The Constitution of
the United States of America.
LESSON


1. @. What qualifications must
Representative have?
A. No person shall be Representa-
tive, who shall not have attained to
the age of twenty-five years, and been
seven years a citizen of the United
States, and who shall not, when elect
ed, be an inhabitant of that State
in which he shall be chosen.
2. @. What qualifications must a
Senator have?
A. No person shall be a Senator,
who shall not have attained to the
age of thirty years, and been nine
years citizen of the United States,
and who shall not, when elected, be
an inhabitant of that State for which
he shall be chosen.
3. @. How often does the Congress
meet?
A. The Congress shall assemble at
least once in every year. and such
meeting shall be on the first Monday
in December, unless they shall by law
appoint different day.
4. Q. How does a bill become a law?
A. Every bill which passes the
House of Representatives and the
Senate is presented to the President
for his signature. If he signs it, the
bill becomes law. If he vetoes it
(returns it without approvaD, both
houses may again pass the bill by a
vote of two-thirds of each house, in
which case the bill becomes a law
without the Presidents signature. If
the President fSils to veto or return
bill to the House in which it original
ed before the end of ten days from
the time he receives it, the bill be-
comes law.
5. Q. What are the powers granted
to the Congress by the Constitution?
A. 1. To lay and collect taxes, du-
ties, imposts, and excuses, to pay the
debts and provide for the common de-
Tense and general welfare of the Unit
ed States; but all duties, imposts and
excuses shall be uniform throughout
the United States.
2. To borrow money on the credit
of the United States.
g. To regulate commerce with
foreign nations, and among the sew
eral States, and with the Indian
tribes.
a. To establish uniform rule Of
naturalizati ton, and uniform laws on
the subject of bankruptcies, through
out the United States.
5. To coin money, regulate the
value thereof, and of foreign coin.
and fix the standard of weights and
measures.
g. To provide for the punishment
Of counterfeiting the securities and
current coin of the United States.
7. To establish postofTices and
post roads.
s. To promote the progress of
science and useful arts, by securing,
for limited times, to authors and in
ventors, the exclusive right to their
respective writings and discoveries.
g. To constitute tribunals inferi-
or to the Supreme Court.
TO- To define and punish piracies
and felonies committed on the high
seas, and offenses against the law of
nations.
II. To declare war. grant letters
of marque and reprsal, and make
rules concerning captures on land and
water.
u. To raise and support armies;
but no appropriation of money to that
use shall be for a longer term than
| two years.
Is. To provide and maintain a
navy.
IA. To make rules for the govern
ment and regulation of the land and
naval forces.
10 To provide for calling forth
the militia to execute the laws of the
Union, suppress instructions and re-
pei invasions.
16. To provide for organizing,
arming and disciplining the militia,
and for governing such part of them
as may be employed in the service of
the United States; reserving to the
States respectively, the appointment
of the officers, and the authority of
training the militia, according to the
discipline prescribed by Congress.
IL. 10 GA0IClSS GACluSINe 1SS1Sld-
ton in all cases whatsoever, over
such district (not exceeding ten miles
square,, as may by cession of partic-
ular States, and the acceptance OF
Congress, become the seat of the
Government of the United States, and
to exercise like authority over all
places, purchased by the consent of
the legislature of the State in which
the same shall be, for the erection of
forts, magazines, arsenals. dockyards,
and other needful buildings.
IS. To make all laws which shall
be necessary and proper for carrying
into execution the foregoing powers
and all other powers vested by this
Constitution in the Government of the
United States, or in any department
mr. officer thereof