Types of Law
This type of law is about money
What is Civil Law
A member of a community who gets protection from it
What is a citizen
This person wrote the Declaration of Independence
Who was Thomas Jefferson
These are the first words of the Constitution
What are "We the People"
The Mayflower Compact
What is 1620
This type of law involves harm to someone.
What is criminal law
This is the right to vote
What is suffrage
This is our Independence Day
What is July 4, 1776
Article 1 of the Constitution lays out
What is the Legislative Branch
The English Bill of Rights
What is 1689
This type of law is only for people in the the armed forces
What is military law
To be born on or in the United States
Law of Soil
From the Stamp Act to the Intolerable Acts this list is called
What is grievances
Article 2 lays out the
What is the Executive Branch
The Magna Carta
What is 1215
This type of law is bound by the Constitution.
What is Constitutional law.
The president vetoes a law made by Congress
What is checks and balances
The purpose of the Declaration of Independence was to
What is declare independence from England
Article 3 is for
Articles of Confederation
What is 1781
In Nixon v the US this president believed he didn't have to give information to opposing legal counsel because he was president.
What is Rule of law.
Group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president
What is the electoral college
One of the signers of the Declaration of Independence or a saying when you sign your name to something
What is John Hancock
To approve is to
What is ratify
Marbury v Madison
What is 1803