A system of government in which a single person or group exercises supreme power by controlling the military and police?
What is dictatorship?
100
A(n) ____ is a way to change the Constitution.
What is an amendment?
100
The action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation.
What is slander?
100
The father of the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
100
The process of amending the Constitution involves both of these....
What is Congress and the states?
200
The ability to cause others to behave as they might not otherwise choose to do.
What is power?
200
A legislative assembly in which elected representatives debate and vote on proposed laws, usually found in countries with a monarchy.
What is parliament?
200
The prosecution of a person a second time for a crime for which the defendant has already been tried once and found not guilty; prohibited under the Fifth Amendment
What is double jeopardy?
200
Many of the ideas in the Declaration of Independence were drawn from this English philosopher.
Who is John Locke?
200
This branch plays the largest role in interpreting the Bill of Rights
What is the Supreme Court?
300
Basic freedoms that are guaranteed under the Constitution, such as the freedom of speech and the freedom of religion. These rights are protected from governmental intrusion or abuse.
What are civil liberties?
300
A political system in which power is exercised by elected leaders who work in the interests of the people.
What is representative government?
300
Statements, usually made under oath, suggesting that the person speaking is guilty of a crime.
What is self-incrimination?
300
This group of people feared the national government would be too powerful and objected that the Constitution did not include a bill of rights.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
300
The Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth amendments protect this....
What are rights in the legal system?
400
The principle that the people are the ultimate source of authority and legitimacy of a government.
What is popular sovereignty?
400
A system of government in which power is divided between a central government and a smaller regional government.
What is federalism?
400
This amendment protects you against unlawful search and seizure.
What is the 4th amendment?
400
This group of people tried to build support for the Constitution by publishing a series of essays explaining the strengths of the Constitution.
Who are the Federalists?
400
The founders of our country saw a free press as a safeguard against...
What is the government abuse of power?
500
The principle that no person can be deprived life, liberty, or property without fair legal procedures and safeguards.
What is due process?
500
The powers explicitly given to Congress in the Constitution.
What are enumerated powers?
500
The process by which the Supreme Court applies the Bill of Rights to the states through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
What is incorporation?
500
This is the biggest reason the Anti-federalists were against ratifying the Constitution.
What is the missing Bill of Rights?
500
This is a method of passing a formal amendment to the Constitution.
What is proposal by two-thirds of Congress and ratification by three-fourths of State legislatures?