Founding
This document established why Americans were leaving England and includes the phrase, "all men are created equal."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The common name for the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The three branches of government.
What is legislative, executive, and judicial?
The two parts of Congress.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
The title and name of the head of the executive branch in Vermont.
Who is Governor Phil Scott?
This is considered the supreme law of the land.
What is the Constitution?
The first four words of the Second Amendment.
What is "A well-regulated militia?"
This branch is primarily responsible for making laws.
What is the legislative?
Republican Mike Johnson serves in this role as the most powerful person in the House of Representatives.
What is Speaker of the House?
Vermont's U.S. Representative.
Who is Becca Balint?
These first three words of the Constitution represent the idea of self-government.
What is "We the people"?
The New York Times was able to publish classified military information because of this liberty.
What is freedom of the press?
This is the concept that stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful.
What is checks and balances, or separation of powers?
Four Amendments changed who can vote in federal elections. Name two of the ways we've expanded people's right to vote.
What is 15th (race), 19th (women), 23th (no poll tax), 26th (18+over)?
Name one of Vermont's Senators.
Who are Bernie Sanders or Peter Welch?
This concept established by the founders said that regardless of your wealth, or name, everyone must adhere to the same rules and regulations.
What is the rule of law?
What are right to remain silent and right to a lawyer?
This branch determined that it was unconstitutional for a school to prevent a student from wearing a shirt that called George W. Bush "chicken-hawk-in-chief."
What is the judicial?
States - not Congress - are largely responsible for overseeing regulations regarding these topics.
What is education, or police? (taxes too, and elections)
Vermont has only one representative in the U.S. House of Representatives, due to small population size. (California has 51.) Name one other state that also only has one representative.
What is Wyoming, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Delaware?
Only these political entities can change the Constitution.
What is the House, Senate, and States, or the legislative branch, and states, or Congress, and states?
Four of the six freedoms in the First Amendment.
What is freedom of religion (practice) freedom of religion (establishment), speech, press, assembly, and petition?
The executive branch oversees about 2 million people in this part of the government that is responsible for implementing the law.
What is the bureaucracy?
These four numbers represent House members, and length of service before releection, and Senate members, and length of service before reelection.
What is 435, 2, 100, 6?
In June 2020, Vermont lawmakers overrode Governor Scott's veto of this bill, which is now a law. It impacts many of you.
What is increasing the minimum wage?