There are seven articles within the Constitution of America. The order is the following: Preamble, seven Articles, twenty-seven Amendments, and a paragraph certifying its enactment by the constitutional convention. Article One: Legislative Power - Has the power to create and adopt laws. Legislatures have exclusive authority to raise taxed and adopt budget and other money bills. Article Two: Executive Power - The executive branch of the government is responsible for the day to day management of the state. Executive does not make laws or interpret them, but can carry out the law.. The executive is known as the head of the government. In the Presidential system, the President may also be the head of the state. Article Three: Judicial Power - Has the power to interpret laws. In the law, judiciary or judicial system, it is the system of courts which administers justice in the name of sovereign or state, a mechanism for the resolution of disputes. Article Four: States' Powers and Limits - The relationship between states and the Federal Government. The states have to give the "Full Faith Credit" to public acts, records and court proceedings to other states. Article Four requires the United States to guarantee each state a Republican form of government. Article Five: Process of Amendments - The processes necesarry to amend the Constitution. Establishes two methods of proposing and amendment: By Congress or by a national convention requested by the states. Once proposed whether submitted by congress or national convention, amendments must then be ratified by 3/4 of the state to take effect. Article Six: Federal Power - Establishes the Constitution, and the laws and treaties of the United States made in accordance with it, to be the supreme law of the land. The states' constitution and laws should not conflict with the laws of the Federal Constitution. Article Six also states that "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States". Article Seven: Ratification - Sets forth the requirements for ratification of the Constitution. The Constitution will not take effect until at least nine states had ratified the Constitution in state conventions specially convened for that purpose.
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