Constitution Terms
Bill of Rights
11-27
Things like Stuff
The Rest
100
Voting rights
What is Suffrage
100
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed
What is Amendment 2
100
This Amendment made it illegal for one person to have another person as a slave
What is Amendment 13
100
Responsible for proposing bills and passing them into law
What is The Legislative Branch
100
A formal statement of the fundamental rights of the people of the United States incorporated in the constitution as Amendments 1-10, and in all state constitutions
What is Bill of Rights
200
A special tax that a person had to pay in order to vote
What is Poll tax
200
We don't have to let soldiers live in our homes if we don't want them there
What is Amendment 3
200
This Amendment gave 18 year olds the right to vote
What is Amendment 26
200
Some form of property deposited or pledged to a court to persuade it to release a suspect from jail
What is Bail
200
Giving testimony in a trial or other legal proceeding that could subject one to criminal prosecution
What is Self-Incrimination
300
An order issued by Abraham Lincoln freeing the slaves in areas rebelling against the union
What is Emancipation Proclamation
300
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people
What is Amendment 10
300
No law, varying the compensation for the services of senators and representatives, shall take effect, until an election of representatives shall have intervened.
What is Amendment 27
300
Refers to the division of Government responsibilities into distinct branches to limit any one branch from exercising the core function of another.
What is Separation of Powers
300
A group of persons gathered for a common reason, as for a legislative, religious, educational, or social purpose
What is Assembly
400
An official approval
What is Ratification
400
There are other rights, often called natural rights that people have. Some would argue that the right to privacy comes from this Amendment
What is Amendment 9
400
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
What is Amendment 24
400
The rights belonging to an individual by virtue of citizenship, especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and by subsequent acts of Congress, including civil liberties, due process, equal protection of the laws, and freedom from discrimination.
What is Civil Rights
400
A published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation
What is Libel
500
Collection of items that is a complete, ordered listing of all items in that collection
What is Enumeration
500
A person is found guilty of armed robbery. The courts decide to try him again. What Amendment doesn't allow this?
What is Amendment 5
500
The terms of the President and the Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
What is Amendment 20
500
A right of a government to take private property for public use
What is Eminent Domain
500
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislatures
What is Amendment 17
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