CHANGING THE CONSTITUTION
This two-word term is defined as the power of the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether or not laws are constitutional
What is Judicial Review?
This amendment is where we find five basic American freedoms: Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition
What is the First Amendment?
This amendment gave official legal status to the idea presented by President Abraham Lincoln in the Emancipation Proclamation
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This term simply means the right to vote
What is suffrage?
After Franklin Roosevelt died, presidents were limited to this many terms as a result of the Twenty-Second Amendment
What is two?
The Civil Rights Acts of 1957 & 1964 were passed by Congress to combat laws enacted by several Southern states that promoted segregation, collectively known as this
What are Jim Crow laws?
Having to pay $5 million in bail or having a leg amputated as punishment for stealing a pack of gum goes against the rights spelled out in this amendment
What is the Eighth Amendment?
The Fifteenth Amendment extended these to freed slaves, but only included men until the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920
What are voting rights?
This amendment, ratified in 1920, granted women the right to vote
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
The Twentieth Amendment moves Inauguration Day of the president from March 4 up to this date
What is January 20th?
An example of how an informal practice changes the Constitution, this is the action of Congress reviewing and evaluating the activities of the executive branch
What is Legislative Oversight?
The Fourth Amendment protects citizens against illegal searches and seizures by requiring law enforcement to have either a warrant or this, a reasonable basis for believing a crime may have been committed
What is Probable Cause?
This clause of the Fourteenth Amendment extended the protections found in the Bill of Rights to state governments
What is the Equal Protection Clause?
One of the arguments for the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, lowering the minimum age to vote to this, was that if young Americans were old enough for military service, they should be allowed to vote
What is 18?
The Twelfth Amendment dealt with this body, which chooses the President of the United States
What is the Electoral College?
The 1824 decision Gibbons v. Ogden is an example of a Supreme Court decision changing the Constitution. In this case, it was the division of power between the national and state governments, or this constitutional principle
What is federalism?
The Fifth Amendment contains several rights of people accused of a crime, including protection against this, being tried twice for the same crime (or the second round of this game)
What is Double Jeopardy?
This concept, that all citizens must have access to a trial by jury when accused of wrongdoing, was extended to all citizens in all states as part of the Fourteenth Amendment
What is Due Process?
Before the Seventeenth Amendment was ratified, state legislators chose the members of this federal legislative body; after the amendment, they were chosen by the people of each state
What is the U.S. Senate?
Prior to this amendment, the residents of Washington, D.C. had no voice in presidential elections
What is the Twenty-Third Amendment?
To ratify an amendment, this fraction of the 50 states must approve it
What is 3/4?
The Tenth Amendment says powers not specifically granted to the federal government in the Constitution are reserved to these two entities
What are the states or the people?
The Reconstruction Amendments were proposed and passed through Congress by this group in response to the laws enacted by numerous Southern states after the Civil War
Who were the Radical Republicans?
These hurdles preventing poorer Americans - particularly African Americans - from voting were banned as a result of the Twenty-Fourth Amendment
What are Poll Taxes?
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment officially says this person takes over in the event of a vacancy in the Oval Office, a tradition began by John Tyler in 1841