Vocabulary 1
Changes or additions made to the Constitution are called these.
What are amendments?
Police taking your property during an investigation is called this.
What is seizure?
This amendment prevents soldiers from being housed in homes without permission.
What is the Third Amendment?
This freedom allows people to protest peacefully in groups.
What is the freedome to assemble?
A fundamental constitutional principle dividing government responsibilities into distinct legislative, executive, and judicial branches to limit any one branch from exercising the core functions of another.
What is Separation of Power?
What is the Southern and Arctic Oceans?
Writing to the government to complain or ask for change is called this.
Money paid to be released from jail while waiting for trial is called this.
What is bail?
This amendment includes the right to remain silent and double jeopardy.
What is the Fifith Amendment?
This freedom allows citizens to complain or request changes from the government.
The U.S. Constitution restrain government actions to protect individual rights, often separated into legislative, judicial, and executive branches.
What is Limiting Powers?
Two continents which can also be considered islands.
What is Antarctica and Australia?
This is the written plan of the governments that explains how the United States is run.
What is the Constitution?
These are legal papers that give police permission to search or arrest.
What are warrants?
These two amendments states powers not given to the federal government belong to the states or people and there are citizen/state/federal rights beyond those written in the consitution. -interpretations
What are the Ten and Ninth Amendments?
The freedom allows express opinions without government punishment.
What is the freedom of speech?
A system of government that divides power between a central (national) government and regional (state) governments, which share sovereignty over the same territory.
What is Federalism?
Continents touch each other.
What is Europe and Asia?
The U.S. government was "established" in 1789, meaning it was officially....?
What is set-up or created?
In the 2nd Amendments, this word means "to carry or possess weapons".
What is carry?
This amendment guarentees a fair and speedy trial.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
This freedom protects your right to practice any religion?
What is the freedom of religion?
The political principle that a government’s legitimacy and authority are derived solely from the consent of its people, who are the source of all political power.
What is popular soveriegnty?
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
The first ten amendments that protect individual freedoms are known as the?
What is the Bill of Rights?
To give evidence under oath is to do this.
What is testify?
This amendment protects against unreasonable search and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This freedom allows newspater are media to publish information.
What is the freedom of the press?
The freedom of individuals to act, believe, and express themselves without unnecessary government interference or external restraint.
What are Individual Rights?
What is North and South America?
the right to gather peacefully to express ideas or protest is called.
What is assemble?
Money penalities ordered by a court as punishment are called this/
What are fines?
This amendment protects against excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishments.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
You get arrested for stealing candy and this amendment helps to not incriminate yourself.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
A counterbalancing influences by which an organization or system is regulated, typically those ensuring that political power is not concentrated in the hands of individuals or groups.
What is Checks and Balances?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
These representative were sent to meeting like the Constitution Convention to make decisions.
What is civil?
These two amendments give citizens the freedom of speech and carry weapons.
What are the First and Second Amendments.
Protestors are protected by this amendmemt.
What is the First Amendment?
The power of courts to examine and potentially invalidate actions by the legislative or executive branches that conflict with the U.S. Constitution.
What is Judicial Review?
Ocean surrounding Southern Asia.
What is the Indian Ocean?