The Constitution & Its Amendments
A U.S President that signed the Constitution
What is George Washington or James Madison?
"The only thing we have to ____ is ____ itself"
"fear"
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
This is the number of Supreme Court Justices today
What is 9? (One Chief Justice, 8 Associate Justices)
Which of the levels of government collect taxes?
What is all three: federal, state, and local?
The minimum age of a presidential candidate
What is 35?
This amendment abolished slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask ______"
"what you can do for your country"
- John F. Kennedy
This case established judicial review
What is Marbury v Madison?
This amendment reserves powers not delegated to the federal government to the states or to the people.
What is the 10th Amendment?
Before 1971, this was the minimum age requirement to vote in an election
What is 21?
This clause in the Constitution establishes that federal laws outweigh state laws.
What is the supremacy clause?
"You think you just fell out of a _____"
"coconut tree"
- Kamala Harris
This is the current Chief Justice on the Supreme Court
Who is John Roberts?
This is the name for the powers that the federal government has according to the Constitution (ex: coining money, taxation)
What are the enumerated powers?
This person is the current holder of an office who is running for re-election in the same role
What is an incumbent?
This was the first person to sign the Constitution
who was George Washington?
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that...
What is "all men are created equal?" (Gettysburg Address)
This is the most recently appointed Supreme Court Justice
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
Since states retain the right to control their own elections processes, these two states split their electoral votes by congressional districts
What are Maine and Nebraska?
This is the process in which electoral district boundaries are redrawn to benefit a specific political party
What is gerrymandering?
This state did not send any delegates to the Constitutional Convention and was the last to ratify it
What is Rhode Island?
The ear of the leader must ring with...
What is "the voices of the people?" (Woodrow Wilson)
This is a Supreme Court opinion that agrees with the final outcome in a case, but disagrees with the legal reasoning.
What is a concurring opinion?
Established by McCulloch v. Maryland, this doctrine lets the federal government enact laws not explicitly listed in the Constitution if they work to carry out enumerated powers.
What is the doctrine of implied powers?
These two states use ranked-choice voting statewide (name at least one)
What are Maine and Alaska?