Article III of the Constitution created this branch of government.
What is the Judicial Branch?
or
What are the federal courts?
100
People invoke this Amendment when they don't want to answer a question in court.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
100
On this day the Constitution was signed into Law. Today it is called Constitution Day and Citizenship Day.
What is September 17th, 1787?
100
The Supreme Court's first home in Washington, D.C. was in the basement of this public building.
What is the U.S. Capitol Building?
200
He was the presiding governor of Virginia at the time of the Constitutional Convention.
Who is Edmund Randolph?
200
This court is named in Article III of the Constitution.
What is the Supreme Court of the United States?
200
This Amendment protects people held in the criminal justice system from cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
200
This day in May is called Law Day, which has become a month-long celebration of the rule of law.
What is May 1st?
200
This drafter of the U.S. Constitution did not sign the document because he was the nation's foreign minister to France at the time of the signing.
What is Thomas Jefferson?
300
At 81, he was the oldest person to sign the Constitution.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
300
This is the name for the merger between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey plan
What is the Connecticut Compromise?
300
This Amendment gives the defendant in a criminal case the right to a trial by jury.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
300
This is considered the anniversary of the federal courts because the Judiciary Act of 1789 was signed on this date.
September 24th, 1789.
300
It took this many days -- in fact less than three months -- to write the Constitution.
What is 100 days?
400
This man, given the nickname "Dictator," was in charge of drafting the Constitution.
Who is John Rutledge?
400
This Article stated that federal judges are appointed for life on the condition of good behavior.
What is Article III?
400
This Amendment requires law enforcement to get a warrant from a judge before they can conduct a search.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
400
This date marks the anniversary of the signing of the Bill of Rights.
What is the December 15th?
400
This future president referred to the Constitution as the "greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen."
Who is John Adams?
500
This member of the Committee of Detail wrote the earliest surviving draft of the Constitution, which was thought to be lost for over 200 years until it was found in 2010
Who is James Wilson?
500
This list of individual rights had to be added before the Constitution was ratified.
What is a Bill of Rights?
500
This Amendment guarantees a legal representation to people charged with a serious crime -- even if they can't afford a lawyer.
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What is the Sixth Amendment?
500
This is the day that the Supreme Court of the United States takes the bench and opens its new term every year.
What is the first Monday in October?
500
The US Constitution is currently housed in protective glass and titanium, and sealed in a container filled with this noble gas.