Amendments
Guarantees that an individual will not be deprived of life, liberty, and property without due process of law.
What is the 5th amendment?
The ratio of states needed to ratify a new amendment to the Constitution.
"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."
Who is James Madison?
The year the Constitution was signed.
What is 1787?
This founding fathers signed all 3 founding documents.
Who is Rodger Sherman?
This amendment extends constitutional protections of privileges and immunities to the states.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
Alexander Hamilton stated that this branch of government was the "least dangerous."
What is the judiciary?
"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This Supreme Court case held that public schools could not be segregated.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The pseudonym for the writers of the Federalist Papers.
What is Publius?
What is the Thirteenth amendment?
Which branch is given the authority to establish lower federal courts?
What is the Congress?
"Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present Generation to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it.”
Who is John Adams?
The first capital of the United States.
What is New York City?
These 2 major founding father signed the Declaration of Independence but DID NOT sign the Constitution.
Who are John Adams and Thomas Jefferson?
This amendment enshrines "unenumerated" rights.
What is the Nineth amendment?
This article allows the federal government to be involved in education
What is there is no such article?
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
Who is George Washington?
The last congressionally declared war.
Who is John Dickinson?
Prior to this amendment, senators were appointed by state legislators.
What is the Seventeenth amendment?
This article and section outlines the powers of Congress.
What is Article 1 Sec. 8?
“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.”
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
The number of US presidents assassinated.
4. (Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Kennedy)
The 3 Founding Fathers who died on July 4th.
Who are John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe.