Declaration of Independence
The rights of all citizens that cannot be taken away.
What are natural rights?
The Branch of government that includes the President and their Cabinet.
What is the Executive Branch?
Where does it outline the rules for freedom of speech?
What is the First Amendment?
What are checks and balances?
The idea that you must be mindful of what you say and where you say it.
What are Time and place restrictions?
The colonists declared that King George III was this kind of ruler.
What is a tyrant?
What is the Judicial Branch?
The Right to Bear Arms
What is the Second Amendment?
People who live in a country together should be responsible for their own government.
What is popular sovereignty?
What law enforcement needs before entering a private property to conduct a search.
What is a warrant? OR What is probable cause?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The two federal offices that fall under the Legislative Branch of government.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
The right to the privacy of your property, person, and materials.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
What is representative democracy?
The rights that are read to every person when they are being detained by law enforcement.
What are the Miranda warnings?
The part of the Declaration where the colonists outline everything they are mad about.
What is the List of Grievances?
The President must follow the law of the land because of what Constitutional Principle?
What is the Rule of Law?
The right to not incriminate yourself.
The government entity responsible for powers that are NOT outlined in the Constitution.
What are state governments?
What kind of group is responsible for "bearing arms" based on the wording of the Second Amendment?
What is a well-organized militia?
The European cultural movement that inspired the colonists' ideas for the Declaration.
What is the Age of Enlightenment?
The Branch of US government that has the power to declare war on other countries.
What is the Legislative Branch?
The author of the Bill of Rights
Who is James Madison?
The idea that we should have a strong federal government that has the majority of the power in this country.
What is federalism?
The part of the 1st amendment that states the government cannot establish a religion as an official practice.
What is the Establishment clause?