Constitution Facts
What is the US Constitution? (4,400 words)
The system of government in the US
What is democracy, but that word does not appear in the US Constitution.
US's biggest city in 1790?
What was NYC with 33,131 people?
Congress should make no law establishing a religion or a abridging the freedom of speech
What is the 1st amendment?
Restrain majoritarian democracy
How the Constitution was designed because the founding fathers distrusted the "mob" (Jamie Bouie, The Washington Post)
James Madison who showed up 3 months early to the Constitutional Convention with his blueprint for the US
Two founding fathers missing from the signature list
Who are Thomas Jefferson and John Adams? both were serving US interests abroad at the time
Number of questions asked on the first US Census?
The right to bear arms
What is in the 2nd amendment?
Constraints to popular power
What are the electoral college and the Senate?
The Constitution was written here
Philadelphia. The state in which is was written is misspelled as Pensylvania.
The right to bear arms and the right to speedy trial
What are parts of the Bill of Rights, which are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution?
Number of states in the US in 1790?
How many is 13? (N Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, NY, NJ, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, N and S Carolina, and Georgia)
The right to no search without a warrant based on probable cause
What is the 4th amendment?
What is nearly impossible because it requires a two-thirds majority vote by both Houses of Congress, then ratification by 3/4ths of state legislatures.
The date the Constitution was signed
When is Sept 17, 1787? (11 years after the Declaration of Independence)
The right to privacy
Never mentioned in the Constitution! Privacy was conceived of differently in 1787.
Average tax per person in 1790.
How much is $6.23? ($174.93 in today's money)
The right for citizens to vote shall not be denied based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude
What is the 15th amendment?
What is a violation of the constitution?
The Constitution gave rise to which holiday on Nov 26, 1789?
What is Thanksgiving Day? (proclaimed by President Washington to give thanks for the new Constitution)
The size of the Supreme Court
What is never mentioned in the Constitution? We currently have 9 justices.
US was in the middle of which war in 1790?
The right to be free of slavery
What is the 13th amendment?
The Vice President can choose which electors to accept into the Electoral College count
What is a popularly-held myth about the constitution that led to the violence in the Capitol on Jan 6?