All or nothin'
What amendment is lawsuits against the states.
11th Amendment
Lame Duck Period
20th Amendment
What does amendment 13 and 15 have to deal with?
They deal with the freedom of color, race, and religion with no slavery and the right to vote
The Seventeenth Amendment provides that senators are elected
directly by the people of each state.
Right to vote for women, suffrage
19th Amendment
What is the correct sequence of these events
a. passage of the Twenty-first Amendment
b. growth of temperance, or anti-alcohol, movement in the 1850s
c. passage of the Eighteenth Amendment
d. increase of drinking age in most states in the late 1900s
B, C, A, D
Which court case created the precedent of Judicial review?
Marbury v Madison
What two amendments have to do with taxes?
Amendment 16 and 24
Poll taxes were outlawed by the Twenty-fourth Amendment
to prevent discrimination against certain voters.
Repealed the 18th and prohibition, each state had separate rules
21st Amendment
Prohibition of Alcohol
18th Amendment
Who Has the power to veto?
The President
A person may be elected to no more than two terms in a row as President, according to which amendment?
22nd Amendment
What is a positive view of the Sixteenth Amendment?
Taxes are needed to help the government do good for all of us.
Black codes, the abolition of slavery in the constitution
13th Amendment
President and VP on the same ballot
12th Amendment
Who makes laws for the national government?
Congress
What is a key provision of the Fourteenth Amendment?
It defines citizenship.
In 1974, President Richard Nixon resigned from office. Which amendment explains what action had to be taken after that?
25th Amendment
Limiting congressional pay raises, can't do it in the middle of the term, control their own pay, COLA= cost of living adjustment
27th Amendment
You can infer from the Twenty-third Amendment that
people living in Washington, DC, were not entitled to vote for President before the amendment was passed.
Which branch has the power to coin money and declare war?
Executive
What 5 amendments have to do with voting?
Amendments 15, 17, 19, 23, 26
The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees
that states will not deny anyone equal protection of the laws.
Direct election of senators; legislature had been electing corrupt senators
17th Amendment