This article of the United States Constitution establishes the Legislative branch of government
What is Article I?
100
This amendment provides United States citizens with the right to keep and bear arms
What is the Second (2nd) Amendment?
100
The Unites States House of Representatives is known by this term because there has never been a member appointed, only by election of the people
What is "The Peoples House"?
100
This amendment provides for a jury trial under common law or civil cases
What is the Seventh (7th) Amendment?
100
The first ten amendents in the United States Constitution are better known as
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
This article of the U.S. Constitution gives full faith and credit to other states public acts, records, and judicial proceedings
What is Article IV?
200
This amendment provides for the establishment of religious freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right to peaceably assemble, and the right to petition the government
What is the First (1st) Amendment
200
Another term used to give power to the the United States Congress to appropriate federal funds
What is "The Power of the Purse"?
200
This amendment provides for an indictment through a Grand Jury System, protects against "Double Jeopardy" and Self Incrimination or the "Right to Remain Silent"
What is the Fifth (5th) Amendment
200
This state was formed in violation of the United States Constitution Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1, which states that no state shall be formed from another state or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state
What is the State of West Virginia?
300
This article of the United States Constitution deals with the establishment of the Executive Branch and vest the power of this branch in the President of the United States
What is Article II?
300
This amendment provides that states shall not deprive anyone of life, liberty, or property without due process of law and guarantees citizens equal protection under the law
What is the Fourteenth (14th) Amendment?
300
This law declares that when federal law is in conflict with state law federal law prevails
What is the "Supremacy Law"?
300
Under this amendment "eminant domain" and "just compensation" are addressed
What is the Fifth (5th) Amendment?
300
Of the fifty (50) states the amount that must vote to ratify an amendment before it can become part of the United States Constitution
What is 3/4 or 38 states?
400
This article of the United States Constitution establishes a trial by jury and states that the trial shall be held in the state where the crime shall have been committed
What is Article III?
Also establishes the Judicial Branch of Government
400
This amendment provides for a speedy trial, public trial, impartial jury, the right to face an accuser, the right to know what they are charged with, and the right to an attorney
What is the Sixth (6th) Amendment?
400
This clause allows the the United States Congress to address new problems as they arise
What is the "Elastic Clause"?
400
According to the United States Constitution this amendment prohibits excessive bail and fines, and cruel and unusual punishments
What is the Eighth (8th) Amendment
400
Changed by the Thirteenth (13th) and Fourteenth (14th) Amendments this did not count slaves as whole persons for the purposes of state representation and taxation
What is the "three-fifths compromise"?
500
In this article the United States Constitution states that while states rule on state law, the federal courts can step in and order changes if the state law is in conflict with federal law. Federal Law is the supreme law of the land.
What is Article VI?
500
This amendment provides for the right of the people to be secure in their property against unreasonable search and seizures and provides that the police must obtain a warrant upon oath or affirmation before conducting such searches
What is the Fourth (4th) Amendment?
500
This is used when a vacancy occurs in the United States House of Representatives, also found under the Seventeenth (17th) Amendment for the Senate this is what the executive authority of the representives home state calls for
What is a "Writ of Election"?
500
The amendments that provide for due process in the federal and state systems
What is the Fifth (5th) and Fourteenth (14th) Amendments
500
DAILY DOUBLE
In this famous 1803 U.S. Supreme Court Case headed by Chief Justice John Marshall it was ruled that the U.S. Supreme Court is the final interpreting body of the United States Constitution, and all federal laws, also maintaining the power to make state and federal officials comply with these rulings