What Article explains the roles and responsibilities of the legislative branch?
Article I
The U.S. Constitution has a Bill of Rights. What is something similar that the Florida Constitution has?
Declaration of Rights
What are the freedoms guaranteed in the 1st Amendment?
Speech, religion, press, petition the government and the right to peacefully assemble.
This supreme court case established judicial review?
Marbury v. Madison?
Who is considered the Father of the Constitution?
James Madison
Article II and Article III describe the roles and responsibilities of the...
Executive Branch (II) and the Judicial Branch (III)
What are the similarities of the US and Florida constitutions?
Preamble, Articles, and individual freedoms.
What does the 4th Amendment guarantee?
You can't be searched or property seized without a search warrant.
What Supreme Court case said racial segregation is constitutional as long as things were separate but equal?
Plessy v. Ferguson
He had the idea of separation of powers in government.
Baron de Montesquieu?
The idea of federalism and how states are to get along with each other is found in what article?
Article IV (4)
What is Article I of the Florida Constitution?
Declaration of Rights
What is the 5th Amendment?
* Double Jeopardy (being put on trial twice for the same crime/incident)
* You don't have to say anything that might incriminate you.
* Due process of the law.
What case did the Supreme Court rule that public school students have the right to free speech so long as it is undisruptive.
Tinker v. Des Moines School District?
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson?
Which Article explains that the U.S. Constitution is the "supreme law of the land"?
Article VI (6)
What are the steps to amend the Florida Constitution AND the US constitution?
Proposal and Ratification.
What is the 8th Amendment?
No excessive bail or fines. No cruel and unusual punishment.
Which case allowed the search of a high school student's purse after she was caught smoking.
New Jersey v. T.L.O.?
He was the king who taxed the american colonists too much.
King George III
Which Article explains how to amend the U.S. Constitution?
Article V (5)
Can Florida residents introduce amendments and vote on amendments to the Florida Constitution?
YES!
What are the similarities between the 14th, 19th and 26th amendments?
They all have to do with voting rights
What is the case, Korematsu v. United States about?
Japanese Americans were put in prison-like camps.
He wrote Common Sense. (Its a shame nobody has it anymore)
Thomas Paine?