Articles
The number of articles found in the Constitution.
What is 7?
The freedom to peacefully assemble.
What is the 1st Amendment?
The House of Representatives is based on this.
What is population?
Under this process, a simple majority is needed to charge a sitting president or federal office holder.
What is impeachment?
The article that outlines the judicial branch.
What is Article III?
This article states that when 9 out of the 13 ratifies the Constitution, the Constitution will take effect.
What is Article VII?
This amendment forbids excessive fines and cruel and unusual punishments.
What is the 8th Amendment?
The "power of the purse" belongs to this body.
What is the House of Representatives?
The power to _____ war.
What is wage?
The tenure of a member of the Supreme Court.
What is a lifetime?
This article mandates each state have a republican form of government.
What is Article IV?
This amendment limits the presidency to two, four year terms.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
The "power of advice and consent" is given to this body.
What is the Senate?
What is 35?
The number of members on the Supreme Court.
What is 9?
This article features the process to amend the Constitution.
What is Article V?
This amendment gave the District of Columbia 3 electoral votes in the electoral college.
What is the 23rd Amendment?
The number of Senators.
What is 100?
The amendment that allows the president to nominate his vice president should the vice president die or resign from office.
What is the 25th Amendment?
These are laws that are based on judicial decisions rather than law based on constitutions, statutes, or regulations. Examples of these include: Dred Scott v. Sandford, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Miranda v. Arizona, etc.
What is case law?
This article states the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land.
What is Article VI?
Ratified 202yrs later, this amendment forbade Congress from giving themselves pay raises during the current legislative session.
What is the 27th Amendment?
The number of years a Senator is elected.
What is 6yrs?
The total number of votes in the Electoral College.
What is 538?
This is the power of a country's courts to determine if the actions of the legislative and executive branches are consistent with its constitution.
What is Judicial Review?