ineligibility clause

(noun)

The Constitution's Ineligibility Clause prevents the president from simultaneously being a member of Congress. Therefore, the president cannot directly introduce legislative proposals for consideration in Congress.

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Examples of ineligibility clause in the following topics:

  • Presidential Action

    • The Ineligibility Clause prevents the President from being a member of Congress and cannot directly introduce legislative proposals.
    • The Constitution's Ineligibility Clause prevents the President from simultaneously being a member of Congress.
    • According to Article II, Section 3, Clause 2 of the Constitution, the president may convene either or both houses of Congress.

  • Political Party Leader

    • The Constitution's Ineligibility Clause prevents the president from simultaneously being a member of Congress.

  • Expressed Powers

    • Clause 1 states that "the executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.
    • He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows. " Clause one is a "vesting clause," similar to other clauses in Articles 1 and 3, but it vests the power to execute the instructions of Congress, which has the exclusive power to make laws.
    • Clause 2 states the method for choosing electors in the Electoral College.
    • The Constitution's Ineligibility Clause prevents the president from simultaneously being a member of Congress.

  • Moods in Dependent Clauses

  • The 12th Amendment

    • A Habitation Clause issue arose during the 2000 presidential election contested by George W.
    • But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

  • The Dorr Rebellion

    • By 1829, 60 percent of the state's white men were ineligible to vote (as were all women and most non-white men), meaning that the electorate of Rhode Island was made up of only 40 percent of the state's white men.
    • Constitution's Guarantee Clause, which stated, "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government... ."

  • The Establishment Clause: Separation of Church and State

    • The Establishment Clause in the First Amendment to the Constitution states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. " Together with the Free Exercise Clause ("... or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"), these two clauses make up what are called the "religion clauses" of the First Amendment.
    • Incorporation of the Establishment Clause in 1947 has been tricky and subject to much more critique than incorporation of the Free Exercise Clause.
    • Critics have also argued that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is understood to incorporate only individual rights found in the Bill of Rights; the Establishment Clause, unlike the Free Exercise Clause (which critics readily concede protects individual rights), does not purport to protect individual rights.
    • One main question of the Establishment Clause is: does government financial assistance to religious groups violate the Establishment Clause?
    • Distinguish the Establishment Clause from other clauses of the First Amendment

  • The Free Exercise Clause: Freedom of Religion

    • The Free Exercise Clause is the accompanying clause with the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
    • The Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause together read:" Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."
    • Then it took on a relatively narrow view of the governmental restrictions required under the clause.
    • This interpretation of the Free Exercise Clause continued into the 1960s.
    • Describe how the interpretation of the Free Exercise clause has changed over time.

  • Promoting the General Welfare

    • In many constitutions, the general welfare clause has been used as a basis for promoting the well-being of the governed people.
    • The Preamble of the United States Constitution states that the Union was established "to promote the general Welfare. " The Taxing and Spending Clause is the clause that gives the federal government of the United States its power of taxation.
    • There have been different interpretations of the meaning of the General Welfare clause.
    • General Welfare clause arises from two distinct disagreements: The first concerns whether the General Welfare clause grants an independent spending power or is a restriction upon the taxing power; the second disagreement pertains to what exactly is meant by the phrase "general welfare. "
    • Illustrate how the General Welfare clause of the Constitution is applied to public policy

  • What About The BSD License?

    • Fortunately, many of the projects that used this license became aware of the problem, and simply dropped the advertising clause.
    • The result is the revised BSD license, which is simply the original BSD license with the advertising clause removed.
    • However, there is perhaps one reason to prefer the revised BSD license to the MIT/X license, which is that the BSD includes this clause:
    • It's not clear that without such a clause, a recipient of the software would have had the right to use the licensor's name anyway, but the clause removes any possible doubt.
    • If you wish to use the most recent revised BSD license, a template is available at opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause.