Civil Liberties
Freedoms that protect individuals FROM government interference, like freedom of speech and religion, are called these.
What are civil liberties?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution, ratified in 1791, are known as this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
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This is the opening paragraph of the Constitution that begins "We the People..."
Preamble
This is the total number of amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
What is 27?
The idea that the government's power comes from the people is called this.
What is popular sovereignty?
This First Amendment right lets people gather together peacefully.
What is freedom of assembly?
This amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
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This branch of government carries out and enforces the laws.
What is the executive branch?
This amendment abolished slavery in 1865.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Dividing government power among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches is called this.
What is separation of powers?
The Establishment Clause is often described as building a "wall of separation" between these two.
What are church and state?
This amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the 4th Amendment?
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This term describes Congress's two-house design (House and Senate).
What is bicameral?
This amendment guaranteed women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
A presidential veto and Senate approval of judges are both examples of this principle.
What is checks and balances?
Give an example of a limitation of the first amendment
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"Pleading the Fifth" protects you from doing this.
What is self-incrimination (testifying against yourself)?
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Found in Article VI, this clause makes the Constitution "the supreme law of the land."
What is the Supremacy Clause?
This amendment lowered the voting age to 18 in 1971.
What is the 26th Amendment?
The division of power between the national government and the state governments.
What is federalism?
Through this process, the Supreme Court has used the 14th Amendment to apply most of the Bill of Rights to the states.
What is incorporation (selective incorporation) OR The Equal Protection Clause
This amendment says powers not given to the federal government are reserved to the states or the people.
What is the 10th Amendment?
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This Article deals with ratification of the Constitution
Article VII
Proposing an amendment usually takes this vote in both houses of Congress, and ratifying it takes approval from this fraction of the states.
What are 2/3 and 3/4?
The power of the courts to strike down laws as unconstitutional, established in Marbury v. Madison (1803).
What is judicial review?