Wording
Amendments
Powers
Signatories
Ratification
100
Besides English, words from this language are the only other to appear in the Constitution.
What is Latin?
100
It is what we call the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution.
What is The Bill of Rights?
100
The power to levy these is granted to both state and federal governments.
What are taxes?
100
The oldest person to sign the document, he was known as the "sage" of the Constitutional Convention.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
100
The first state to ratify the Constitution.
What is Delaware?
200
Surprisingly, this word does not appear anywhere in the Constitution.
What is democracy?
200
It was outlawed by the 13th amendment.
What is slavery?
200
Of the 3 federal branches, it is the one with the power to admit new states.
What is Congress?
200
The 2 people who would go on to serve as President that signed the Constitution.
Who are George Washington and James Madison?
200
A proposed amendment may be RATIFIED by 3/4s of these.
What are state legislatures?
300
This is the length of time federal judges hold office.
What is for life?
300
Commonly called prohibition, it is the only amendment to be repealed by a subsequent amendment.
What is the 18th?
300
An amendment may be PROPOSED by a 2/3s vote of these bodies.
What are both Houses of Congress?
300
The number of signers of the Constitution.
What is 40?
300
By Article 7 of the document, this was the number of states that needed to ratify before the Constitution would be in force.
What is 9?
400
According to article VI, these 3 things are the supreme law of the land.
What are the Constitution, federal laws, and treaties?
400
This is the number of amendments to the US Constitution.
What is 27?
400
This office holder also serves as the President of the Senate and can only vote in case of a tie.
Who is the Vice President of the United States?
400
Not even sending a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, there are no signers from this state and member of the 13 original colonies.
What is Rhode Island?
400
Of the 13 original colonies, this was the last to ratify the Constitution.
What is Rhode Island?
500
According to article IV, this is how a state must treat citizens of other states.
What is equally of their own?
500
When Nixon resigned from office in 1974, this Amendment allocated his position to the Vice President.
What is the 25th?
500
This is the group with the power to elect the President Pro Tempore of the Senate.
What is the Majority party in the senate?
500
Of the delegates to the convention, this number did not sign the document.
What is 15?
500
On January 10, 1791 this territory ratified the Constitution, even though it had not yet been recognized as a state.
What is Vermont?
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