Articles
Bill of Rights
Vocab
Origins
Rights and Responsibilities
100
This Article discusses the Legislative Branch
What is Article I?
100
2nd Amendment
What is the Right to Bear Arms?
100
Under the 4th Amendment, the police must obtain one of these to search your things.
What is a Search Warrant?
100
This movement, beginning from the Scientific Revolution, helped influence the American Revolution and the Constitution.
What is the Enlightenment?
100
As a registered voter, you are eligible for this, which means you may help decide if someone is innocent or guilty in the court of law.
What is Jury Duty?
200
Article II discusses this Branch; while Article III discusses this Branch (name both).
What are the Executive and Judicial Branches?
200
4th Amendment
What is No Unreasonable Searches and Seizures?
200
To formally accuse someone of a crime.
What is indict?
200
Two documents that influenced the Constitution.
What is Mayflower Compact, English Bill of Rights, Virginia Bill of Rights, Magna Carta, etc.
200
You must be this age to vote or join the military.
What is 18?
300
If you want information on Relations Among States, you would look under this Article of the Constitution.
What is Article IV?
300
Two amendments deal with Trial by Jury: one in criminal cases and one in common law cases. Which two amendments are they?
What are the 6th and 7th?
300
To remove a President from office.
What is impeach?
300
This document, written in 1776, was the first attempt at a colony trying to tell the King what their rights should be.
What is the Virginia Bill of Rights?
300
If you do not want to provide evidence against yourself, you can do this.
What is "Plead the 5th?"
400
This Article discusses how to ratify the Constitution.
What is Article VII?
400
Who wrote the Bill of Rights?
Who is James Madison?
400
Give me one example of "checks and balances."
What is veto, impeachment, declaring a law unconstitutional, etc.
400
This document, written in 1689, was one way England limited the power of the King.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
400
The last time this was used was during the Vietnam war: it requires citizens to serve in the military.
What is the draft?
500
This Article is often called, "the Supremacy Clause."
What is Article VI?
500
10th Amendment
What is states' rights?
500
The definition of Non-Enumerated Rights.
What is that other rights not listed below still belong to the people (or similar).
500
One phrase from the Enlightenment that defines our "unalienable rights."
What is "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?"
500
You are a natural born US citizen if one of two things applies to you. Your parents are US citizens, or, this:
What is you were born on US soil?
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