Vocabulary
The study of citizenship. (Government, Economics, and American History)
What is civics?
The three values of American citizenship
What are Equality, Liberty, and Justice?
The document that sets up our government
What is the Constitution?
The three branches of government
What are the legislative, executive, and judicial?
People who wanted a Bill of Rights and were against the Constitution.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
Belonging to a country.
What is citzenship?
Somebody who gains citizenship by being born in the U.S.
Who is a natural/native born citizen?
Believed that people had natural rights and the government's job was to protect those rights.
Who was John Locke?
Enforces laws
What is the responsibility of the executive branch?
The five rights of the First Amendment.
What are religion, assembly, petition, press, and speech?
An addition to the Constituiton
What is an amendment?
Someone who is living in the United States without the proper legal documentation.
Who is an undocumented immigrant?
Believed that people had natural rights but they gave them up for government protection with no right to change
Who was Thomas Hobbes?
The idea that different branches of government have different powers.
What is separation of powers?
The amendment that discusses unwanted search and seizure.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
To approve
What is ratify?
The process in which someone from another country becomes a citizen.
What is naturalization?
The first form of government for the United States
What were the Articles of Confederation?
The powers that are given to the federal government by the Constituiton.
What are delegated powers?
The amendment that guarantees a right to a jury in civil cases.
What is the Seventh Amendment?
The system of government with shared powers between the states and federal government.
What is federalism?
Someone who flees from persecution or hardship to the United States.
Who is a refugee?
The reason why the Articles of Confederation failed
What is the States had too much power and the federal government could not do anything?
The idea that branches of government have powers over the others to keep them in check.
What are checks and balances?
The amendment that sets up reserved and delegated powers.
What is the Tenth Amendment?