Bill of Rights
Amendments 11-27
Qualifications
Articles I-VII
Vocab
100
This Amendment protects many of your freedoms such as freedom of religion and freedom to petition.
What is The First Amendment
100
This Amendment banned slavery in 1865.
What is the Thirteen Amendment?
100
This powerful government position has no age requirement, so technically you could be nominated for this position! However, the President's nomination must be approved by Congress.
What is a Supreme Court Justice?
100
This Article of the Constitution talks about the Legislative branch.
What is Article I.
100
These are powers given to both the state and national government, such as the power to tax.
What is a concurrent power?
200
This Amendment protects your right to bear arms.
What is the Second Amendment
200
This term describes a payment that people used to be required to make in order to vote.
What is a poll tax?
200
This person is a U.S. citizen who immigrated from another person...they lived here for 5 years and passed a citizenship test.
What is a naturalized citizen?
200
This Article of the Constitution discusses the President, his duties, and his powers.
What is Article II.
200
This term refers to powers of state governments.
What is a reserved power?
300
This Amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is The Fourth Amendment
300
This term refers to the period of time when alcohol was illegal, 14 years between 1919 and 1933...
What is Prohibition?
300
You must be a natural-born citizen, and at least 35 years old, to run for this office.
What is the President/Vice-President of the United States?
300
This Article of the Constitution is not used anymore today, and was put in place to discuss the ratification and signing of the Constitution.
What is Article VII?
300
This word means "to officially approve", "to make legal", to "go into effect."
What is to ratify?
400
The "rights of the accused" are listed in these three amendments.
What is the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Amendments
400
This amendment extended the right to vote to women in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
400
You must be at least 25 years old to run for this government position.
What is a U.S. Representative?
400
This article discusses the court system and the types of cases heard by federal courts.
What is Article III?
400
This term refers to a power of the national government.
What is a delegated power?
500
This Amendment protects all the rights of citizens that are unlisted in the Constitution?
What is the Ninth Amendment?
500
This Amendment said that you couldn't discriminate the right to vote based on race.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
500
This government official serves a six-year term.
What is a U.S. Senator?
500
This clause says that if national and state laws are conflicting, the national law wins. This is referred to as....
What is the Supremacy Clause? (or National Supremacy Clause, Article VI)
500
This term means "future generations." It appears in the Preamble to the Constitution.
What is posterity?
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