Amendments
This amendment deals with freedom of speech.
What is the 1st amendment?
The constitution added this to the US government
What is the Executive and Judicial Branch?
This document stated all the wrong doings of the British King
What is the Declaration of Independence?
A change to the constitution
What is an amendment?
The 3/5 Compromise gave this person part of a vote
What is a slave?
This is part of the 4th amendment.
What is search and seizure?
This branch enforces laws
What is the executive branch?
This document set rules and procedures for the US government
What is the US Constitution?
Supreme court can declare laws/actions unconstitutional
What is judicial review?
This person said people have a right to rebel if their life, liberty, and property are threatened
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The right to bear arms is apart of the...
What is the 2nd Amendment?
These 3 terms best describe the US Government
Democrat, Federal, and Republic.
This is apart of the constitution that guarantees rights for individuals
What is the Bill of Rights?
This is a word for the "rule of the people"
What is popular sovereignty?
This was the main reason colonists were angry about taxes
What is taxation without representation?
What amendment gives right to a double jeopardy?
What is the 5th Amendment?
This level of government only has powers that were expressed in the Constitution
Federal
This document was what led to the Constitution and it had many weaknesses
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Congress has rights to make laws if they are necessary/proper
What is elastic clause?
This gives reporters some protection about information/sources in state courts
What is shield laws?
The 3rd Amendment does not allow this
What is quartering of soldiers in homes?
This branch has the right to declare laws unconstitutional
What is the Judicial Branch?
These documents were written so Americans would support the Constitution.
What is the Federalist Papers and/or Common Sense.
The United States "shall be the supreme law of the land"
What is the supremacy clause?
To ratify an amendment, you must have this amount of a vote.
What is a 3/4 vote?