What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?
Separation of powers
Checks and balances
What is the supreme law of the land?
What is the Constitution?
What is one right in the First Amendment?
Freedom of Speech
Freedom of Religion
Freedom of Petition
Freedom of Assembly
Freedom of Press
This amendment gives a person due process if they are accused of a crime.
5th Amendment
This branch of the government makes the laws.
What is the legislative branch?
What is state?
What does the Constitution do?
What is set up the government?
Protect basic rights of Americans
Defines the government
How many Amendments in the Constitution?
27
Who makes federal laws?
What is Congress?
Senate and House of Representatives
Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the federal government and some belongs to the state. Which amendment states this?
What is the 10th amendment?
This former president is considered the Father of the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
What are the first three words of the Constitution?
What is We the People?
What did the Declaration of Independence do?
Declared independence from Great Britain.
Who is in charge of the Executive branch?
This is one of the American Indian tribes forced off their land during The Trail of Tears.
Who are the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek,Chickasaw, and Seminole ?
What is an amendment?
What is a change or addition to the Constitution?
What are the three unalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence?
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
What are two parts of the U.S. Congress?
Senate and the House of Representatives
What is 35?
What are the first 10 amendments?
What are the Bill of Rights?
What is the economic system in the United States?
What is capitalist economy?
What is a market economy?
How many U.S. Senators are there?
100