Bill of Rights
This Amendment prevents troops from crashing on your couch
What is the Third Amendment?
This was America's first constitution...it did not last long.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
These are Vermont's two senators.
Who are Sanders and Welch?
This is the total number of Amendments.
This basically says, if we didn't cover it here, it's up to the states.
What is the 10th Amendment?
This amendment protects against illegal search and seizure
What is the 4th amendment?
This is the year of the Constitutional Convention
What is 1787
This is the number of TOTAL representatives in both chambers of Congress
What is 535?
He is credited with much of the writing of the Bill of Rights...but probably took many of George Mason's ideas.
Who is James Madison?
The name of the group at the Const. Convention that was nervous about the states losing independence.
What are Anti-Federalists?
What is the 8th amendment?
This was the main question of the Constitutional Convention.
How should power between states and the federal government be split?
This is how the Judicial branch checks the power of Congress.
What is deeming a law unconstitutional?
This is the amendment that grants Birth Right citizenship.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Before Trump, he was the last president to be impeached.
Who is Bill Clinton?
Double Jeopardy? This amendment says no way, Jose!
What is the 5th amendment?
Created a two-house Congress with equal representation in the Senate and population-based seats in the House of Representatives.
What is the "Connecticut Compromise?"
He is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Who is John G. Roberts, Jr.
This is the number of Congressional members and States it takes to ratify an amendment to the constitution.
What is 2/3 and 3/4?
This was the plan that James Madison actually preferred at the Constitutional Convention
What is the Virginia Plan?
"The __________ in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
What is enumeration?
This determined how enslaved people would be counted towards the overall population of a state.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This type of veto is when Congress is out of session and the President simply does not sign the bill.
What is a pocket veto?
This the only Amendment that is directly overturned by another one.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This was the only state to NOT send a representative to the Constitutional Convention
What is Rhode Island?