General
We the People
What are the first three words in the U.S. Constitution?
Two years
What is the term of office for a member of the U.S. House of Representatives?
This body shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
What is Congress? Amend 1
The amendment that states all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof become citizens.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This man is known as the father of the U.S. Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
September 17
What is Constitution Day?
25 years of age, a citizen for 7 years, and an inhabitant of the state from which elected
What are the 3 requirements to be a member of the U.S. House of Representatives?
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms,shall not be infringed is this amendment.
What is the Second Amendment? Amend 2
The Eighteenth Amendment
What is the prohibition of manufacturing, selling, or transporting intoxicating liquors within all territory subject to the jurisdiction of the United States?
A term used to describe the division of authorities between the three branches of government.
What is the separation of powers?
This person selects the replacement when there is a vacancy in Congress.
What is the governor of the state?
Six years
What is the term of office for a member of the U.S. Senate?
The five rights listed in the first amendment
What are freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right to peaceably assemble, and the right to petition the government for redress of grievances?
Due to the passage of the 13th Amendment in 1865, this practice shall not exist in the United States.
What is slavery?
A commonly used term regarding the relationship between religion and government that is NOT found in the Constitution.
What is separation of church and state?
Executive, Judicial and Legislataive
What are the three branches of government?
All bills to raise revenue for the US Government have to start here for that bill to become a law.
What is the House of Representatives?
Excessive bail or fines shall not be required, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
What is the eighth amendment?
The only amendment that repealed a previous one
What is the 21st Amendment?
This delegate to the Constitutional Convention was the only one to attend every meeting and took detailed notes of the various debates and discussions. His journal of the proceedings was sold to the government after his death for $30,000.
Who was James Madison?
The fraction of votes by the Senate required for conviction of impeachment.
What is 2/3?
Be 35 years old, be a natural born citizen, and be a resident of the United States for 14 years
What are the requirements to be President of the United States?
The two rights guaranteed by the fourth amendment
What are "no unreasonable search and seizures" and "no warrant without probable cause?"
This right shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the right to vote?
This colony did not send any delegates to the Constitutional Convention and was the last state to ratify it.
What was Rhode Island?