U.S. Constitution
This is considered the supreme law of the U.S.
This Supreme Court case established the practice of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison.
This is what the Declaration of Independence did.
What is formally broke ties with the British?
What is established that all people are created equal?
What is identifies inherent rights and individual freedoms?
This term describes the form of government in the United States
What is a republic? also acceptable are:
What is a Constitution-based federal republic?
What is a representative democracy
This is what the Bill of Rights does.
Similar responses are correct:
What is guarantees basic rights?
These are the principle things that the U.S. Constitution does (name 3 of the 4).
What is forms a government, defines powers of government, defines the parts of government, protects the rights of people?
This Supreme Court Case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson which stated that racial separation was acceptable as long as it was equal.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This term refers to the idea that everyone, even leaders, must obey the law.
What is "the rule of law?"
There are X number of amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
This is what "We the People" means.
What is self-government, popular sovereignty, consent of the governed, people should govern themselves, an example of a social contract.
(any of these answers is acceptable)
What is Roe v. Wade?
These important ideas came from the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution (name 2).
What are equality, liberty, natural rights, social contract, limited government, self-government?
So that not one branch of government would be more powerful than the other, this was established.
What is (any acceptable) the 3 branches of government or separation of powers, or checks and balances?
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteed the right to vote to citizens who are 18 years old or older?
What is amendment 26?
This refers to how to add to or change the Constitution.
What is amend or the amendment process?
This famous Supreme Court case concluded that students' free speech could not be limited as long as there was no disruption to the learning environment.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines, Iowa independent School District.
This document was signed before the Pilgrims reached land and stated that when a society was established that all would follow the laws.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
the legislative, executive, and the judicial.
What are the 3 branches of government?
These 5 rights are expressly guaranteed in the 1st amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
What are the right to free speech, the right to assemble, the right of the free press, freedom of religion, and the right to petition the government?
This part of the Constitution established the Judicial branch.
What is Article III?
This landmark Supreme Court Case resulted in the police having to read those accused/arrested of a crime their rights.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
This Founding document reflected the struggle for individual liberties against royal absolutism, emphasizing the rights of Parliament, fair trials, and freedom from cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the English Bill of Rights
This part of the federal government writes laws.
What is Congress or the U.S. legislature, or the legislative branch?
This amendment established the 2 term limit of the Presidency.
What is the 22nd amendment?