Const. Facts
The Constitution was written in this year.
What is 1787?
Article 1 states that the Legislative branch has the power to do this.
What is make laws?
We have this many Amendments in our Constitution.
What are the 27 Amendments?
In the Legislative branch, Congress will do this when discussing bills to prevent bills from being passed.
What is a filibuster?
This man came up with idea of checks and balances.
Who was Montesquieu?
The Constitution is known as this in America.
What is supreme law of the land?
According to Article 2, this branch has the power to enforce a country's laws and administer the country's public policies.
What is the executive branch?
The right to free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of press comes from this Amendment.
What is the 1st Amendment?
If the Vice President were to be president and dies in office, this person would be next in line in the executive succession.
Who is speaker of the House?
This man was the first president of the United States.
Who was George Washington?
Who are Antifederalists?
The Constitution guarantees that laws and contracts made in one state are legal in another is known as this clause.
What is Full Faith and Credit Clause?
This Amendment protects the right to own guns and a well regulated militia.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
This body of government has the power to accuse an official of government with impeachment.
What is the House of Representatives?
The governor of Missouri is this man.
Who is Mike Parson?
These two plans were discussed during the Constitutional Convention along with the 3/5 Compromise. Name these two plans that led to the Connecticut Compromise.
What are Virginia and New Jersey Plans?
The Constitution states that for this "convoluted system for electing president" each state gets a number of votes that is equal to the number of its senators plus the number of US representatives.
What is the Electoral College?
This document gives us our rights as U.S. citizens. It is the first 10 amendments of the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This clause allows Congress to make laws on issues that are not mentioned in the Constitution.
What is the elastic clause?
Two Supreme Court Justices that you know.
Who are John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett?
According to the Preamble of the Constitution, the Constitution does this for Americans.
What is protect our rights?
What are state legislatures?
According to the 10th Amendment, anything not given to the national government is left to this.
Who are the states?
When the president vetoes a bill passed by Congress is an example of this.
What are checks and balances?
These two senators represent our great state of Missouri.
Who are Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt?