Basic Constitution
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are called this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Article I creates this branch of government.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This clause allows Congress to make laws that are “necessary and proper.”
What is the Elastic Clause?
This amendment guarantees freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the First Amendment?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This year the Constitution was signed.
What is 1787?
Article II outlines this branch of government.
What is the Executive Branch?
Powers shared by both state and federal governments are called these.
What are concurrent powers?
This amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
This is the introduction to the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
This article sets up the Judicial Branch.
What is Article III?
The principle that government power comes from the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
The right to remain silent and protection from double jeopardy are in this amendment.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
This amendment set the voting age to 18.
What is the Twenty-Sixth Amendment?
This group was created to ensure no one branch of government becomes too powerful.
What are checks and balances?
This article explains how states must respect the laws and records of other states.
What is Article IV?
This article establishes the Constitution as the supreme law of the land.
What is Article VI?
The right to a speedy and public trial is found in this amendment.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
This amendment limited the president to two terms.
What is the Twenty-Second Amendment?
This number of states had to ratify the Constitution for it to go into effect.
What is 9?
Article V is about this process.
What is amending the Constitution?
This term describes dividing government power among branches.
What is separation of powers?
This amendment says that powers not given to the federal government go to the states or people.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
This amendment guarantees equal protection under the law.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?