Who is checking who?
Amendments
Bill of Rights
const principles
sources
100
When the president vetos a law
What is the Executive checking the Legislative
100
the amendment process is to make changes to what
what is the const. ?
100
the amendment violated when the government redistricts expression of religion
what is the 1st amendment?
100
What founding principle of the United States does this graph reflect?
what is popular sovereignty?
100
Let us not be afraid to help each other — Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials, but the voters of this country.
— President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1938
Which was President Roosevelt describing?
what is representative democracy?
200
When the president appoints a judge
what is the executive checking the judicial
200
To officially add an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, approval is needed from this fraction of the state legislatures or state conventions.
what is 3/4ths of the states?
200
the government must give people a chance to defend themselves in a fair hearing before infringing on their rights
what is due process?
200
What does this diagram best represent?
what is checks and balances?
200
Amendment I: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
what right is being described here?
right to freedom of speech, religion, and press
300
when a judge declares a law unconstitutional
what is the judicial checking the legislative
300
Before becoming part of the Constitution, an amendment must first be approved by this fraction of both the House and the Senate.
what is two-thirds?
300
Article the sixth... In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence. —The U.S. Bill of Rights
what right is being protected here?
what is rights of the accused?
300
what is being shown in the political cartoon?
what is the ratification of the const?
300
It may be proved that no society can make a perpetual1 constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then.
— From a letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, September 6, 1789
1perpetual: never ending or changing
Based on this statement, Thomas Jefferson most likely supported
what is the amendment process?
400
when the senate impeaches an official
what is the legislative checking the judicial
400
the name of the first 10 amendments
what is the bill of rights?
400
the amendment is being violated if the federal government takes private land without giving the landowner fair value in exchange for the property.
what is the 5th amendment?
400
constitutional principle that is broken when federal government infringes on states rights
what is federalism?
400
Preamble of the U.S. Constitution (1787 CE)
The Preamble to the United States Constitution, beginning with the words “We the People”, is a brief introductory statement of the US Constitution's fundamental purposes and guiding principles.
We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity [future generations], do ordain [by law] and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
what is the purpose of this excerpt?
what is to explain who the government is for and by?
500
when the congress refuses to fund a war
what is the legislative checking the executive
500
describe the method for amending the const.
Congress proposes an amendment with a two-thirds majority vote in each house. Three-fourths of the state legislatures vote to ratify the amendment.
500
what amendment is violated when A judge sets a defendant's bail much higher than is reasonable based on the defendant's charges.
what is the 8th amendment?
500
what const principle is being described in this quote:
“the true Idea of a Republic, is ‘An Empire of Laws and not of Men’
what is rule of law?
500
Federalist No. 51, 1788
This policy of supplying, by opposite and rival interest, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, private as well as public. We see it particularly displayed in all the subordinate distribution of power, where the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be a check on the other that the private interest of every individual may be a sentinel over the public rights. These inventions of prudence cannot be less requisite in the distribution of the supreme powers of the State.
What principle is being described here?
what is checks and balances?