Creating the Constitution
The day celebrated for the signing of the US Constitution, this year it will be 237 years.
What is September 17?
This branch of government's job is to make the laws.
What is the legislative branch?
To be a Representative you must be 25, to be a Senator you must be 30 and to be the President you must be this age.
What is 35?
What is Majority?
This amendment gives one the right bear arms, and no we are not talking about the animals or body parts.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
This city of Brotherly Love, is where the US Constitution was written, specifically Freedom Hall.
Philadelphia
Our Congress is a bicameral congress, this means that there are two levels, and upper level and this lower level.
What is House of Representatives?
"I'm not going to throw away my shot", is one song about a former Secretary of Treasury in the end this Vice President shoots and kills him in duel. Thus making him 1 of 2 former Vice Presidents to shoot someone.
Who is Aaron Burr?
The length of term for a Supreme Court Justice, this can be long or short, it's all up to the judge.
What is life?
The 1st amendment is a favorite of newspapers, protestors, churches and even sometimes students when they get in trouble for saying things. Name one of the rights listed in the 1st amendment.
What is freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly, and petition?
The founding father can really pack his resume including but not limited to: delegate of the Constitutional Convention, Father of the Constitution, Secretary of State under Thomas Jefferson, and 4th President of the United States.
Who is James Madison?
The Senate, took after the New Jersey plan at the Constitutional Convention to keep equal representation for all states with this number of Senators per state.
What is 2?
Just because you are the most popular candidate running for President doesn't mean you automatically win the election, you must get at least number of Electoral College votes out of 538.
What is 270?
Article III not only set up regulations of the Supreme Court, but also how one is can be convicted of this, the crime of betraying one's country.
What is Treason?
The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments are often grouped together and called "This War Amendments" since they came about because of this war, a war all about slavery.
What is Civil War?
The US Constitution was created using many ideologies from this time period, including theories from Montesquieu, John Locke, and Rousseau
What is the Enlightenment?
Every 10 years the United States needs updated numbers for tax and representation purposes, so it is important that each household participates in this decade event.
What is the Census?
There are obviously a few important requirements to be President, such as age, and natural born citizen, however unlike many jobs today having a college degree is not one of them. This former President is the first president to serve without a college degree.
Who is George Washington?
Sandra Day O'Connor was the first woman on the Supreme Court, she was nominated in the 1980s by this former movie star turned President.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
Who are women?
Not everyone gets it right on their first try, and this is true for the founding fathers, the US Constitution was not the first government those men created for American, they came together to fix this and instead wrote the US Constitution when they realized there was not helping it.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The lower house of Congress, only serves 2 years at a time, Senators however have the longest single terms for an elected official with this many years at a time, note there is no limit on how many terms a Senator can serve.
What is 6 years?
A power given to the President to check Congress's power, President Franklin D. Roosevelt holds the record for most used at over 600.
What is veto?
When the supreme court or any court rules it is important they look at examples of similar cases that have happened before, these cases are called.
What is Precedent?
Amendment 18 and 21 might not be right next to each other, but they often are connected together. One begins this era of not allowing the sale of alcohol and one ends the same era. Therefore making amendment 18 the only amendment no longer in use.
What is Prohibition?