The Right to Bear Arms
What is the 2nd amendment
The President is in this branch of government
What is the Executive Branch
When these students wanted to protest the Vietnam war, their black armbands created a Supreme Court case
What is Tinker v Des Moines
Two from every state, elected every six years, creates this government body
what is the senate
There are 9 of these
what are Supreme Court Justices
Only this person has veto power
The President
The first 10 amendments in the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights
This is the month we vote for President
What is November
The current Vice President of the United States
Who is James David Vance (JD Vance)
Its the number of amendments in the constitution
what is 27
This is the Article that establishes the Judicial Branch.
What is Article III
The process of rights not named in the Constitution being given to the States to determine
What is Federalism
The supreme law of the land
What is the constitution
There are always 435 of these, although population determines how many each state will get
What are Representatives (House of Reps)
Bicameral
What is Congress
Its what the Declaration of Independence did.
Declared us free from Great Britain
The Commander in Chief of the military
Who is the President
The only one who gets a lifetime term
What is a Supreme Court Justice
A change or addition to the constitution
What is an amendment?
These are the two safeguards that prevent one branch of the government from becoming too powerful.
- checks and balances
- separation of powers
The year the constitution was written
1787
The idea of self-government that is in the first three words of the Constitution.
What is "We the People"
The amendments in the constitution that protect voting rights for all citizens protect these four things
What is
▪ Citizens eighteen (18) and older (can vote).
▪ You don’t have to pay (a poll tax) to vote.
▪ Any citizen can vote. (Women and men can vote.)
▪ A male citizen of any race (can vote).
All men must register for the Selective Service by this age
18 years
The three Rights listed in the Declaration of Independence
▪ life
▪ liberty
▪ pursuit of happiness