The Founding Documents
This is the full date (day, month, year) of the Declaration of Independence
What is July 4, 1776?
What is a representative democracy?
Name all 5 parts of the first amendment
What is Freedom of - Speech, Religion, Press, Assembly, & Petition?
This gives Congress almost unlimited power, by allowing them to make new laws that help them carry out their powers.
What is the Elastic Clause or the Necessary & Proper Clause?
This is the total number of BOTH houses of Congress
What is 535?
+100 if you can name how many each house has
The order of the 3 main Founding Documents
What is the Declaration of Independence (1776), the Articles of Confederation (1781-1789), and the Constitution (1789-present)?
What are Federal, State, and Local governments?
These are known as the Reconstruction or "Black" Amendments
What is 13 (no slavery), 14 (naturalization/citizenship), & 15 (Black male suffrage)?
These are powers that are held only by states
What are reserved powers?
Identify the upper house and the lower house (which one is which)
What is the House of Representatives (lower) & Senate (upper)?
The purpose of the Constitution.
What is to protect citizens from the government, or to lay out a structure for the government?
Name as many types of governments as you can
What is/are: Democracy (direct & representative), Monarchy (Constitutional & Absolute), Dictatorship, Oligarchy, Theocracy, Communism, Socialism.
Old Enough to Fight, Old Enough to Vote
What is the 26th Amendment?
Powers held by BOTH major governments
What are concurrent powers?
Name both ratios needed in order to pass laws.
What is 2/3 and 3/4?
There are this many articles in the Constitution
What is 7?
This allows the Federal government more power than the states
What is the Supremacy Clause or Article VI?
The first 3 articles of the Constitution cover these
What are the three branches of our government (Legislative, Executive, and Judicial)?
Give 1 example of a reserved power. Not a concurrent one either.
What is issue licenses, control public education, conduct elections, establish local government, and regulate intrastate business?
Name all 3 requirements to be part of Congress (I will accept either house)
What is (HOR) must be 25, must be a citizen for 7 years, and live in the district you represent? Or (Senate) you must be 30, must be a citizen for 9 years, and live in the state you represent?
This is a series of 85 essays that defend the Constitution to the American public before its ratification
What are the Federalist Papers?
+100 points for each author you can name.
Name one problem with Federalism
What is leads to inconsistencies, economic disadvantages between states, and difficulty making blanket decisions?
DAILY DOUBLE
for 100 points a piece, name as many Amendments as you can
What is 1-27?
List as many Enumerated Powers as you can
+100 points for everything after 5.
Congress can be FORCED to work when the President calls for this
What is a special session?