Vocabulary
Sets up how the states must vote for the Constitution to become a law.
What is Ratify?
The plan for how the government will work.
What is the Constitution?
The Judicial Branch. Sets up a way to judge the laws (the Supreme Court and the lower federal courts).
What is Article 3?
The first 10 Amendments.
What are the Bill of Rights?
Protects freedom of religion, speech, press and assembly.
What is the 1st amendment?
A change to the Constitution
What is an Amendment?
A change or correction to the Constitution, made by a certain process.
What is an Amendment?
The Legislative Branch: Sets up a way to make laws.
What is Article 1?
Ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Granted African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
A form of government in which citizens choose their leaders by voting
What is a republic?
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
What is the Preamble?
The Executive Branch
What is Article 2?
Granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Banned alcohol (made alcohol illegal). Also known as prohibition.
What is the 18th Amendment?
A document that is constantly changing.
What is a living document?
Establishes how the Government is structured.
What is an Article?
Amending the Constitution
What is Article 5?
Ended Prohibition (made alcohol legal again).
What is the 21st Amendment?
Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures (the police cannot search you, or your property, if they do not have a reason).
What is the 4th Amendment?
A system that allows each branch of government to limit the powers of the other branches in order to prevent abuse of power
What is checks and balances?
The meeting, from May 14 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where the Constitution was created.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
States that the Constitution is the highest law of the land.
What is Article 6?
Made the rule that you must be 18 to vote.
What is the 26th Amendment?
The president can only have 2 elected terms (the president can only be president for 8 years).
What is the 22nd Amendment?