Constitution
Guaranteed all citizens the right to bear arms
What is The Second Amendment?
The first ten amendments are known as this.
What is the Bill of Rights
Making congressional districts to favor one party over another.
What is Gerrymandering?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States
What is the 13th Amendment?
These are the three branches of government
What are the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches?
This person can Negotiate treaties, veto legislation, nominate cabinet members, and nominate ambassadors.
Who is the President?
These laws forced racial segregation in the southern states.
What are Jim Crow laws or Black Codes?
Theory that keeps the three branches of government equal and divides their powers.
What is Separation of Powers?
The government has no right to stop spoken or printed expression in advance of its taking place/published.
What is prior restraint?
This is the only position in which a person serves for a life term.
What is Supreme Court Justice?
The principle that assures that federal laws are applied also to the states.
Selective incorporation
Guaranteed women the right to vote.
The 19th Amendment
What are concurrent powers?
This amendment forbids the federal government from quartering troops in your home.
What is the 3rd Amendment?
This is the process Congress goes through to remove a President from office.
What is impeachment?
Allows the Supreme Court to declare actions taken by the executive and legislative branches unconstitutional
What is Judicial Review?
The wall of separation between church and state comes from the ____ clause of the ____ Amendment.
What is the establishment clause of the first amendment?
These Legislative Powers are specifically listed in the Constitution
What are Expressed Powers?
The right to counsel is part of this amendment.
What is the 6th Amendment?
This is the system that elects the President
What is the Electoral College?
This amendment expanded America's personal liberty, guaranteed citizenship and limited some forms of discrimination?
What is the 14th Amendment?
This Supreme Court case established the idea of clear and present danger
Schenck v. United States
This position is next in line to become president should both the current president and the vice president be unable to serve.
The following quote comes from a required document: ″...all too many others have been more cautious than courageous and have remained silent behind the anesthetizing security of stained-glass windows.”
What is The Letter From a Birmingham Jail
What is 35 years old?