This is the term for a change or addition to the Constitution.
What is an amendment?
100
The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are those words?
What are "We the People"?
100
Name one branch of government.
What is the legislative branch, the executive branch, or the judicial branch?
100
Name one of our senators?
Who is Patty Murray or Maria Cantwell?
100
What does a US House of Representatives represent?
What is a district?
200
This is what we call the first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
There are 4 amendments to the Constitution about who can vote. Describe one of them.
What is the 15th amendment which said the right to vote can't be denied based on race, color, or condition of previous servitude?
What is the 19th amendment which said the right to vote can't be denied based on gender?
What is the 26th amendment which made the voting age 18?
What is the 24th amendment which said the right to vote can't be denied because a person can't pay a poll tax or other tax?
200
What stops one branch from becoming too powerful?
What is checks and balances?
200
The House of Representatives has how many voting members?
What is 435?
200
This is the reason some states have more representatives to the US house of representatives than others.
What is the state's population?
What is representation to the House of Representatives is based on a state's population?
300
This is how many amendments the Constitution has.
What is 27?
300
This amendment states that any powers not given to the federal government, nor denied to the states are given to the states/the people.
What is the 10 Amendment?
300
What are the two parts of Congress?
What is the House of Representatives and the Senate?
300
We elect a representative to the House of Representatives for how many years?
What is 2 years?
300
If both the president and vice president can no longer serve, who becomes president?
Who is the Speaker of the House?
Who is Paul Ryan?
400
Name two freedoms protected by the First Amendment.
What are freedom of speech, freedom of religion, right to peaceful assemble, right to freedom of the press, right to petition the government for a redress of grievances? (Must have 2)
400
This amendment says that the rights of the people are not limited to those listed in the Constitution.
What is the 9th Amendment?
400
How many US Senators are there?
What is 100?
400
Who is our US Representative to the House of Representatives?
Who is Dan Newhouse?
400
This branch is in charge of making laws.
What is the legislative branch?
500
What is the "Supreme Law of the Land"?
What is the Constitution?
500
This amendment protects against unlawful/unreasonable searches and seizures (protects privacy).