Vocabulary
Basic Principles
Articles
Bill of Rights
Misc Amendments
100
This branch is responsible for making laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
100
This principle divides the government into three branches.
What is separation of powers?
100
This article sets up the Judicial Branch of government.
What is Article III?
100
This amendment guarantees the right to bear arms and form an army.
What is the second amendment?
100
This amendment ended slavery in the United States.
What is the thirteenth amendment?
200
This branch is responsible for enforcing the laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
200
According to this principle, the people hold the power to make all laws.
What is rule by the people?
200
This article is the longest of the seven articles, and sets up the Legislative Branch.
What is Article I?
200
This amendment protects against illegal searches and seizures.
What is the fourth amendment?
200
This amendment granted African Americans the right to vote.
What is the fifteenth amendment?
300
This branch is responsible for interpreting the laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
300
This principle states that the courts must throw out any law that is determined to be unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
300
This section of the Constitution explains why it was written.
What is the Preamble?
300
This amendment protects against double jeopardy and guarantees due process of law.
What is the fifth amendment?
300
The eighteenth amendment prohibited this.
What is the sale and transport of alcohol?
400
This is what is held when someone is accused of a crime.
What is a trial?
400
According to this principle, the U.S. government has some powers, and the states have some powers of their own.
What is federal government?
400
This article sets up ways to makes changes to the Constitution.
What is Article V?
400
This amendment protects against cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the eighth amendment?
400
The nineteenth amendment, granting women the right to vote, was ratified in this year.
What is 1920?
500
This is the name for a law that goes against the Constitution.
What is unconstitutional?
500
According to this principle, the government must not be too strong and rights must be protected.
What is limited powers?
500
This article sets up how the states will ratify the Constitution.
What is Article VII?
500
This amendment reserves all rights not mentioned in the Constitution to the states.
What is the ninth amendment?
500
The twenty-sixth amendment, ratified in 1971, guaranteed this.
What is the right to vote for 18-year-olds?
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