Amendements
The amendment contains the right to remain silent and double jeopardy.
What is the 5th amendment?
This word's definition means "listed". Ex - the listed powers of Congress are....
What is enumerated?
Where was the Constitution ratified?
What is Philadelphia?
This amendment grants citizenship and civil rights to former slaves.
What is the 14th amendment?
The definition of due process is this.
What is the right of all people accused of crimes get to go through the same processes of the law?
List 2 enumerated powers of Congress.
What are:
make law
to lay and collect taxes
pay debts and borrow money
regulate commerce
coin money
establish post offices
protect patents and copyrights
establish lower courts
declare war
raise and support an Army and Navy
This amendments grants those accused of crimes access to a lawyer and to speedy trial by a jury of one’s peers.
What is the 6th amendment?
In what 2 amendments do you find equal protection? What does it mean?
What are the 5th and 14th amendments. It means that all people are protected under the laws of the constitution.
This is the meaning of the Rule of law
What is that every citizen is subject to the law, including law makers? The ruler is not above the law, as in divine right.
The amendment states that the interpretation of amendments cannot take away other people's rights.
What is the 9th amendment?
Define popular sovereignty.
What is that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives?
These 2 people make up the executive branch.
Who are the president and vice president?
Aside from freedom of religion and freedom of speech, list 3 other freedoms in the 1st amendment.
What are freedom of the press, freedom to petition, and freedom to assemble?
These two groups make up Congress.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
What are the House of Representatives, the Senate, and State Governments?