Branches of Government
This term means to literally separate the government into 3 different parts which work together with different roles.
What is separation of powers?
The Bill of Rights includes these Amendments.
What are the first ten Amendments?
These three Amendments are referred to the Reconstruction Amendments because they were passed and ratified in the period immediately following the American Civil War.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
This term means to place limits on the governments scope and power to ensure that it does not become too powerful.
What is limited government?
This is how many judges are in the Ohio Supreme court.
7.....not 6.
This branch of government is responsible for enforcing the law and is best represented by the President at the Federal level.
What is the executive branch?
This Amendment within the Bill of Rights includes the five foundational freedoms of speech, right to petition the government, assembly, press and religion.
What is the 1st Amendment?
This Amendment established the right to vote for women.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This has happened 4 times in U.S. history where President's overstep their boundaries and could possibly be removed from office.
What is impeachment?
These types of powers are the powers clearly written in the US Constitution that only the Federal government holds.
What are expressed powers?
What is the Supreme Court?
This Bill of Rights Amendment includes five different protections that relate to the time between between arrest and trial such as the right of due process and protection against self-incrimination.
What is the 5th Amendment?
This Amendment changed the voting age from 21 to 18 across the U.S.
What is the 26th Amendment?
This principle of the founding fathers means that the power of the government SHOULD be coming from the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
What are implied powers?
This concept provides equal powers to all the branches of government and each branch can counteract or cancel out another branch of government.
What is the system of checks and balances?
This group wanted the inclusion of the Bill of Rights in the US Constitution to protect individuals from a powerful Federal government.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
This Amendment abolished the institution of slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This principle of the Founding Fathers means that each branch of government should have a way to monitor and check the power of other branches.
What is checks and balances?
This Amendment means that whatever wasn't specifically written in the U.S. Constitution falls back to the states.
What is the 10th Amendment?
These can be written by U.S. Presidents to make big or small changes in society and are equal in power to laws.
What are executive orders?
This Bill of Rights Amendment provides protections related to the process of searches and seizures.
This Amendment provided the right to vote to all men regardless of color, race, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This principle of the Founding Fathers means that the state and federal government have to work together. In other words, power is shared between the two.
What is federalism?
This person/position is 3rd in line to the Presidency.
Who is Speaker of the House?