Enlightenment thinkers
Founding Ideas
Federalist Papers & Constitution
Supreme Court Cases
Amendments & Rights
100

This Enlightenment thinker believed people are born with natural rights such as life, liberty, and property.

Who is John Locke?

100

This principle means that government gets its authority from the people.

What is "consent of the governed"?

100

Federalist No. 10 is primarily concerned with this problem caused by groups with competing interests.

What are factions?

100

This case involved the Fourth Amendment and unreasonable searches and seizures.

What is Mapp v. Ohio?

100

This amendment protects freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.

What is the First Amendment?

200

This Enlightenment thinker believed government power should be divided among different branches.

Who is Montesquieu?

200

The Great Compromise created this type of legislature for Congress.

What is a bicameral legislature?

200

Federalist No. 10 supported this type of government in which citizens elect people to make decisions for them.

What is representative government?

200

This case established that police must inform people in custody of certain constitutional rights.

What is Miranda v. Arizona?

200

This amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms.

What is the Second Amendment?

300

This author wrote Common Sense and argued against monarchy.

Who is Thomas Paine?

300

The House of Representatives uses this to determine how many representatives each state receives.

What is population?

300

Federalist No. 39 discusses the balance between the national government and this level of government.

What are state governments?

300

This case involved the right to an attorney for defendants who cannot afford one.

What is Gideon v. Wainwright?

300

This amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures.

What is the Fourth Amendment?

400

This Founding Father was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence and was influenced by John Locke.

Who is THomas Jefferson?

400

This constitutional principle divides power between the national government and state governments.

What is federalism?

400

Federalist No. 51 argues that government should be designed so that the branches can do this to one another.

What is check and balance each other?

400

This case involved freedom of speech and whether speech could be limited during wartime.

What is Schenck v. United States?

400

A citizen writes to a government official asking that a law be changed. Which First Amendment right is being used?

What is the right to petition?

500

Locke's idea that people agree to create a government and give it authority is called this.

What is a social contract?

500

Jefferson's belief that state governments should retain significant power reflected this general view of government.


What is limited national government/stronger state governments?

500

Complete this famous Federalist No. 51 idea: "If men were ________, no government would be necessary."

What is angels?

500

This case involved school-sponsored prayer and the First Amendment.

What is Engel v. Vitale?

500

This Supreme Court case connected a right to privacy with protections under the Fourteenth Amendment.

What is Roe v. Wade?

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