The Constitution, in Article 1, Section 4, gives Congress broad authority to set the rules for federal elections.
The Constitution, in Article II, requires the president to be a "natural born citizen". But the Constitution does not define that term, which is why Mr. Cruz, and other presidential candidates before him, have faced questions about their eligibility.
Federal courts have limited jurisdiction in that they can only hear cases that fall both within the scope defined by the Constitution in Article III Section 2 and Congressional statutes (See 28 U.S.C. §1251, §1253, §1331, §1332).
They can only hear cases that fall both within the scope defined by the constitution in Article III Section 2 and Congressional statutes (See 28 U.S.C. §1251, §1253, §1331, §1332).
The court also agreed to decide a second question presented by the Bush appeal: whether the state court's ruling was inconsistent with a clause in the federal Constitution, in Article II, Section 1, providing that electors shall be chosen by each state "in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct".
Our patent system is enshrined in the Constitution in Article I, Section 8, Clause 8.
California's constitution, in Article X, Section 2, requires that all uses of the state's water be reasonable and beneficial.
As Green puts it, "the sense originally expressed by the text of the Constitution is what the phrase 'this Constitution' in Article VI makes binding, not the original reference or collection of things referred to by the Constitution".
Each state has two senators regardless of its population size - an idea so important to the framers that the Constitution in Article V requires that "no State, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate".
The favorite scapegoat of many Japanese nationalists is Japan's Constitution — in particular Article 9, which forever renounces war as an instrument of settling international disputes.
