The Preamble & Basics
This three-word phrase opens the Preamble?
What is "We the People"
Congress belongs to this branch of government.
What is the legislative branch?
The president can do this to a bill passed by Congress to stop it from becoming law.
What is veto?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are called this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
A change to the Constitution is called this.
What is an amendment?
The Constitution was signed in this city in 1787.
What is Philadelphia
The President heads this branch, which enforces laws.
What is the executive branch?
Congress needs this fraction of votes in both chambers to override a veto.
What is two-thirds?
The First Amendment protects freedom of this, which means you can say what you think.
What is speech?
Who helped create the Constitution.
Who are the framers.
The Constitution is made up of a Preamble and this many articles.
What is seven.
What is the judicial branch?
This written document explains how the U.S. government works.
What is the Constitution.
Freedom of this lets people practice any faith they choose, or none at all.
What is religion.
How many amendments to the Constitution have there been?
What is 27.
This 1781 document governed the U.S. before the Constitution.
What are the Articles of Confederation.
The two chambers of Congress are the House of Representatives and this.
What is the Senate?
The main goal of the Constitution was to create this kind of framework for the government.
What is the legal framework?
True or False: Was Ms. Nicole one of the founding fathers?
How many presidents have been impeached.
This "Father of the Constitution" wrote much of it and later became the 4th president.
Who is James Madison?
Each state gets this many senators, regardless of population.
What is 2?
This was the first plan of government for the United States, before the Constitution.
What are the Articles of Confederation.
Who helped write the Constitution?
The Framers, white men
Who is the President of the Senate?
Who is the Vice President?