Name that Amendment
This Amendment describes the right one has against self-incrimination or testifying against oneself.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
This document, signed aboard a ship off the coast of Massachusetts in 1620, could be considered the first American social contract.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This was the name of the building where the Constitutional Convention took place.
What is Independence Hall?
This Latin collective pen name was used by the authors of the Federalist Papers.
Who is Publius?
A dress code that allows tank tops ... or the allowance described in the 2nd Ammendment.
What is the right to bear arms?
What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
While American government is often compared to Greek democracy - because of the way our representatives are chosen - many of our governmental mechanics are actually more closely aligned with this Roman form of government.
What is a republic?
The city in which the Constitutional Convention took place.
What is Philadelphia?
Approximately 50 authors, under the collective pen name Brutus, wrote this collection of counterarguments to the Federalist Papers.
What are the Anti-Federalist Papers?
The place where you store your dinner plates ... or a group of presidential advisors.
What is a cabinet?
Unreasonable search and seizure.
What is the 4th Amendment?
This famous American founder from Virginia could not attend the Constitutional Convention because he was in France at the time, as Paris stirred toward the French Revolution; despite his absence, he sent letters and reading lists to the American Constitutional "Framers" inspired by the revolutionary teachings of philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
The year in which the Constitutional Convention took place.
What is 1787?
This Founder and co-author of the Federalist Papers is perhaps more famous in the modern era for his duel with Aaron Burr.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This word could describe a fuzzy orange fruit ... or the removal of a president from office.
What is impeachment?
Abolishes slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This English philosopher's concept of "life, liberty, and property" rights was modified by Thomas Jefferson to embody the concept of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Who is John Locke?
This 1786 Massachusetts farmer uprising was used to prove that the Articles of Confederation were too weak.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
Perhaps the most famous Federalist Paper (Federalist 10) describes how the Constitution can protect against ___________, defined by the author as a group of citizens "adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community."
What is a faction?
Could describe a sorceress turning someone into an odious brown rodent ... or the act of signing a law into effect.
What is ratification?
Provides Congress with the power to levy federal income tax.
What is the Sixteenth Amendment?
This famous French political philosopher, and author of Spirit of the Laws, argued that governments should separate into three branches to hedge against tyranny, inspiring the Constitution's separation of powers
Who is Montesquieu?
This agreement settled the dispute between how to count slaves for representation and taxation purposes.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
According to Federalist 51, "...if men were __________, no government would be necessary."
What are angels?
This word might describe someone who simultaneously snaps different photos with each hand ... or a two-house legislative system.
What is bicameral?