Creating a Constitution
Name of the first constitution
What are Articles of Confederation?
The 2 chambers of Congress.
What are the Senate & House of Representatives?
This person is the head of the Executive Branch.
Who is the President?
Their job is to interpret the Constitution and federal laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
This amendment protects our freedom of speech.
This level of government had all the power under the Articles of Confederation
What are the states?
This half of Congress made small states happy b/c each state gets 2 members.
What is the Senate?
The job of the FBI, CIA, Post Office, EPA, ICE, etc.
To enforce federal law in the Executive Branch.
What is life (on good behavior)?
The Court decided in Tinker that the students were allowed to wear black armbands to school because the armbands were not ______.
What is disruptive?
This is the highest law in the country.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
Membership in this half of Congress is based on a state's population.
What is the House of Representatives?
How long a President's term is and how many times they can be elected.
What are 4 years & 2 times?
Definition of Amend/Amendment
What is to add something to the Constitution in order change the Constitution?
These are rights people have when they are accused of a crime.
What are due process rights?
This is when the government is divided into different levels: federal, state, local
What is Federalism?
This is the core job of the Legislative Branch.
What is to write & pass federal laws?
This is what it's called when the President refuses to sign a bill passed by the Legislature.
What is a veto?
These amendments were added to the Constitution after the Civil War to address the rights of previously enslaved persons.
What are 13th, 14th, 15th?
To search someone's home, the police need one of these, as set forth in the ____ Amendment.
What is a warrant, listed in the 4th Amendment?
These are ways that each branch can LIMIT the power of the other branches
What are checks & balances?
Members of the ____ are elected for 6 years and members of ____ are elected for 2 years.
What are the Senate (6 yrs) and House (2 yrs)?
What is the Electoral College?
What are the 19th and 26th?
Before the gov. can interrogate someone, they must remind them of these two rights.
What are right to remain silent and right to an attorney?