Constitutional Principles
According to this principle, no one is above the law.
What is Rule of Law?
War can only be declared by this branch of government.
What is the legislative branch?
This word means "the right to vote in political elections."
What is suffrage?
This amendment gives you the right to protest the government.
What is the First Amendment?
This is the principle by means of which "the people" give their consent to be governed.
What is popular sovereignty?
The Census determines the number of representatives apportioned to each state in this governing body.
What is the House of Representatives?
In this type of election, people vote directly for or against a single political issue or question.
What is a referendum?
This amendment gives you the right to a trial by jury.
What is the 6th amendment?
This principle gives to the government only the powers enumerated in the Constitution.
What is limited government?
This is the name for the process by which the Supreme Court checks the power of the legislative branch.
What is judicial review?
Whether this group can vote varies widely from state to state.
What is incarcerated people?
This amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
"All will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that the minority posses their equal rights, which equal law must protect and to violate would be oppression." Thomas Jefferson said these words in defense of which constitutional principle.
What is majority rule, minority rights?
This federal branch has the power to appoint ambassadors.
What is the executive branch?
Because of this institution, Donald Trump became president in 2016, even though his opponent, Hilary Clinton, received more votes.
What is the Electoral College?
After many legal challenges, it was determined that NYC's Stop & Frisk practice violated the right enshrined in this amendment.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
In this system, a national government shares power with state governments.
What is federalism?
This branch of government is responsible for raising revenue through taxes.
What is the legislative branch?
This ethnic group received the right to vote in the United States four years after women.
What is Native Americans?
Jefferson took the rights listed in the Declaration of Independence mainly from the writings of this English philosopher.
Who is John Locke?