Citizenship
A person who has specific rights and obligations within a political unit.
What is a citizen?
Group of people who came up with ideas on how the government should run
What are the Enlightenment thinkers?
Right to bear arms
What is the 2nd amendment?
Article I
What is the legislative branch
Division of authority among the three branches is known as what?
What is separation of powers?
Amendment that protects all persons born or naturalized in the United States
What is the 14th amendment?
Thinker who came up with the natural rights theory
Who is John Locke?
No quartering of soldiers
What is the 3rd amendment
Collecting taxes, borrowing money, and declaring war are the basic powers of which branch?
What is the legislative branch?
The branch of government that can veto bills
What is the executive branch?
When you parents are US citizens, you are automatically a citizen.
What is law of blood?
Thinker who came up with separation of powers
Who is Montesquieu?
People accused of crimes may refuse to testify against themselves in a court of law
What is the 5th amendment
Main job is to enforce laws
What is the president/executive branch?
The concept that teaches us that no one is above the law.
What is rule of law
The final step in the naturalization process
What is the oath of allegiance?
Idea where all people are born with the rights to life, liberty, and property
What are natural rights?
Lowered voting age from 21 to 18
What is the 26th amendment?
This branches job is the interpret the laws
What is the judicial branch?
Who has the power to impeach, try, and even remove judges who commit crimes
What is congress?
Men between the age of 18 and 25 are signed up and can be drafted into war if needed
What is the selective service?
Idea that says in order for people to protect their natural rights, they must create a contract between themselves and a government
What is social contract?
What is the 15th amendment
The power of the Supreme court to declares acts and laws from president and Congress unconstitutional
What is judicial review?
What is one way which the Constitution differed from the Articles of Confederation?
(hint. It created a system we use today)
What are the creation of the three branches?