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Bill of Rights
What is the first ten amendments of the U.S. Constitution?
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says that all powers that are not delegated to the national government by the Constitution are reserved to the states.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
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What amendment says that the Bill of Rights does not list all the rights a person has?
The ninth amendment
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Which amendment outlawed slavery?
thirteenth amendment
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Which amendment gave African American men the right to vote?
fifteenth amendment
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an ex post facto law
What is the term for a law that makes an act a crime after the act has been committed?
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Where all laws dealing with taxes must originate..
What is the U.S. House of Representatives?
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powers that are shared by the federal and state governments
What are concurrent powers?
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Which amendment guarantees you a speedy and public trial?
sixth
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Which amendments all relate to the election of the president?
12th, 22nd, 23rd
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Gave citizenship to all people born in the United States.
What is the fourteenth amendment?
300
What is the only way a president can serve more than 8 years since the passage of the twenty-second amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
If he served two years or less of another person's term.
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which amendment gave women the right to vote?
nineteenth amendment
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Who chooses the president if no one receives majority of the electoral vote?
House of Representatives
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Whose approval is needed to override a presidential veto?
both houses of Congress
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The U.S. Constitution gives the president the power to make treaties with approval from them.
What is the Senate?
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To become president, a candidate must receive a majority of..
the electoral vote
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Which amendment, which was ratified in 1971, granted the right to vote to all citizens 18 years and older?
twenty-sixth amendment
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allows congress the power to act as needed to meet changing conditions
What is the elastic clause?
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Who is president of the legislative branch?
vice-president
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Powers that belong only to the federal government
What are enumerated powers?
500
The first amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees...
Freedom of speech, assembly, press
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American system of limited government in which the people are the ultimate source of governmental power.
What is a republic?
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What does the president do in his role as legislative leader?
proposes laws to Congress
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The number of representatives each state has in the US House of Reps is based on what?
State's population
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