Supreme Court Haiku
Clauses
Nation's Foundation
Setting Up All Three Branches
Power of Congress
Qualifications of Representatives (aRT. I, sEC. 2)
Twenty-five years old
Citizen for seven years
State inhabitant
QUALIFICATIONS OF SENATORS
(aRT. I, sEC. 3)Thirty years of age
A citizen for nine years
State inhabitant
cOMMERCE cLAUSE (aRT. I, sEC. 8)
Congress regulates
Commerce with foreign nations,
Among States, with tribes
patent and copyright clause (Art. I, Sec. 8)
Science and the Arts
Writings and Discoveries
Secured for some timeQualifications of President
(Art. II, Sec. 1)Thirty-five years old
Natural born citizen
Lived here fourteen years
ARTICLE II, Section 2
Advice and consent
From Senate to President
Treaties, Appointments
article iii
Judicial power
Diversity, U.S. law
Trial by jury
article iv, seCTION 1
Full faith and credit
To acts, records, proceedings
Of all other States
article iv, section 2
Each state’s citizens
Entitled Privileges
And Immunities
article v
Amendments approved
By two-thirds of both houses
And three-fourths of states
article vi
Debts remain valid
Federal law is supreme
No religious testsARTICLE VII
Ratification
Nine states shall be sufficient
For Establishment
