The members of this legislative branch serve a 6 year term
What is the Senate
100
The members of this legislative branch serve a 2 year term
What is the House of Representatives
200
This Amendment passes in 1920 and gave suffragettes the right to vote.
What is the Nineteenth Ammendement
200
According to the Twentieth Amendment, if the President-elect dies before the beginning of his/her term, who becomes President?
Who is the Vice President-elect
200
The only crime defined by the Constitution
What is Treason
200
How many states were required to ratify the Constitution before it could go into effect?
What is 9
200
Who is the "Father of the Constitution"?
Who is James Madison
300
For what office mentioned in the Constitution must a person be a natural-born citizen?
Who is the President
300
According to the constitution this may only be suspended in times of rebellion or invasion.
What is writ of habeas corpus
300
This office has power over to fill vacancies in offices, make treaties and appointments, and is the Commander in Chief of the Military.
What is the President
300
Article 1, Secton 2 of the Constitution slaves were counted this way when determining the number of congressional districts per state?
What is 3/5
300
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are called...
What is the Bill of Rights
400
Amendments 13, 14, 5, and 15 did what?
What is banned slavery, declared all persons naturalized in the U.S to be citizens, established due process and equalization under law, and established suffrage for black Americans.
400
What are the two congressional limits on the President according to the Constitution?
What is impeachment, determining amount of money to run the government, 2/3 vote overrules veto
400
This means to charge with a crime or misdemeanor; to charge a public official before a competent tribunal with misconduct in office. Who has the sole power to do this?
What is Impeachment; House of Representatives
400
According to the Constitution, what are the limits of the States?
What is making treaties, coining money.
400
Name three of the five basic rights mentioned in the First Amendment.
What is religion, speech, press, assembly, redress of grievances
500
According to the Constitution, the purpose of government is to
What is establish justice, insure domestic Tranquility, Provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure Blessings of Liberty.
500
Name at least three of the five basic rights guaranteed to all citizens in the Bill of Rights
What is to keep and bear arms; no quartering of troops, freedom from search and seizure, trial by jury, speedy trial, no cruel or unusual punishment.
500
Which branch of government establishes lower federal courts
What is Legislative (congress)
500
These men were the biggest promoters of the Constitution
Who is James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay
500
The President must write to the President Pro-Tempore and the Speaker of the House of Representatives in the event that...
What is unable to discharge the powers of his/her office (resigning)