Amendments
All About That Article
Constitution
Flags
Branches of Government
100
How many amendments there are in the Constitution
What is 27?
100
States the goals and purposes of the Constitution as it's opening paragraph
What is the preamble
100
The three parts of the Constitution
What is the preamble, 7 Articles, and 27 Amendments?
100
The stars and stripes represent this
What are the 50 states and the original 13 colonies?
100
These are the three branches of government
What are legislative, executive, and judicial?
200
The first 10 amendments are called this
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
This title of Article VI says that national law trumps state law
What is National Supremacy?
200
This is how the Constitution can be changed
What are the amendments?
200
The blue rectangle that contains the stars is called this
What is the union?
200
The two houses that make up Congress, the legislative branch
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
300
The basic rights covered by the 1st Amendment
What is freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition?
300
This article says states must respect the laws of the other states
What is Article IV Relations Among States?
300
The Constitution replaced this document that failed because the states had stronger governments than the central government and weren't united
What is the Articles of Confederation?
300
Where the U.S. flag must be hung when alongside other countrys' or states' flags
What is all the way to the right and at the same level?
300
The judicial branch has this many Supreme Court justices
What is 9?
400
Gave women suffrage
What is the 19th Amendment?
400
Article V says that an amendment may be PROPOSED by a 2/3 vote of these
What is BOTH houses of Congress?
400
They serve as President of the Senate (one only when needed to break a tie)
Who are the Vice President and the President of the Senate Pro Tempore?
400
If I am the speaker and the flag is hung flat on the wall behind me, this is what side the union is on
What is the right?
400
This is the process of a bill becoming a law
Starts as idea, must go through the house and senate, and president must sign it. If he vetoes it, congress can override it with a 2/3 vote and it becomes law
500
Reduced the voting age to 18 years old
What is the 26th Amendment?
500
Article VII states the process that 3/4 of the states need to vote to change the Constitution
What is Ratification?
500
538 is the total number of votes availabel and 270 is the total number of votes needed to win
What is the the Electoral College?
500
This is how a flag should be hung from a pole
What is the union must be all the way to the top of the staff?
500
Qualifications for... President (age, resident length, term lenghts) Senator (age, res. length, term lengths) Representative (age, res. length, term lengths) Judicial branch (age, term lengths)
35, 14 years, 4 years 30, 9 years, 6 years 25, 7 years, 2 years 18, for life
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