FOUND. OF GOV'T
A social group that shares a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, traits, background, allegiance, or associations.
What is a ethnicity?
Name the 3 branches of the US Federal government
What is the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
The number of Senators in the Senate.
What is 100?
The first ten amendments.
What are the Bill of Rights.
The total number of amendments.
What is 27?
Powers divided between a strong centralized government and multiple local/state governments.
What is federalism?
The "power of the purse" lies with this body.
What is House of Representatives.
This elected official is elected every six years.
Who is a senator?
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
What is the 4th Amendment?
The 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments are called.
What are the "Reconstruction Amendments"?
These are the four essential features of a State.
What is territory, sovereignty, population and government?
Name the two houses or chambers of the legislative branch.
What is Senate and House of Representatives
The number of representatives in the House of Representatives.
What is 435?
This guarantees forbids “double jeopardy” and protects against self-incrimination.
What is the 5th Amendment?
This amendment gave black men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment.
A political unit that has sovereignty over an area of territory and the people within it.
What is a State?
Make laws, fund the government, and impeach federal office holders are all powers of this branch of government.
What is the legislative branch?
The number of members from the House of Representatives from the State of South Carolina
What is 7?
These two amendments combined to make the Miranda Rights.
What is the 5th & 6th Amendments?
This amendment prohibited the possession, manufacturing and transportation of alcohol.
What is 18th Amendment?
Consists of a distinct population of people that are bound together by a common culture, history and tradition who are typically concentrated within a specific geographic region?
What is the Nation?
The House and the Senate can bypass the President's refusal to sign a bill into law by having a 2/3rd's supermajority in each chamber, forcing the bill into law without the President's approval.
What is a Veto Override?
The number of electoral votes to win the presidency.
What is 270?
The five rights enshrined by the 1st Amendment.
What is Freedom of Religion, Freedom of the Press, Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Peacefully Assembly and the Freedom to Petition?
This article outlines the process to amend the Constitution.
What is Article V?