Constitutional+Plan+4


 * A bicameral legislative branch with the House elected directly by the people and equal representation of states in the Senate**. The original constitution also provided for indirect election of Senators, but this was replaced by direct election in the xx Amendment.
 * //Article I, Section 2//
 * //Article I, Section 3//: The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, chosen by the legislature thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote.
 * //The Seventeenth Amendment (1913)//: The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote . The electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislatures

//Article I, Section 8//
 * Broad legislative power, including the powers to tax and regulate interstate commerce.**
 * To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
 * To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
 * To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
 * To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
 * To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
 * To establish post offices and post roads;
 * To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
 * To constitute tribunals inferior to the ^Supreme Court;
 * To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;
 * To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
 * To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
 * To provide and maintain a navy;
 * To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
 * To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
 * 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;
 * To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular 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;--And
 * 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 or officer thereof


 * A single executive (the president), selected by the Electoral College.**
 * //Article II, Section 1// Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.


 * A judicial branch appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate.**
 * //Article II, Section 2//


 * The national supremacy clause**
 * The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.

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