Unit 1
This keeps all areas of the government from being too powerful
What is Checks and Balances?
The first 10 amendments of the constitution
What are the bill of rights?
Chief law enforcement officer
What is the sheriff?
This supreme court case now requires police to read you your "Miranda Rights"
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
CDC stands for this
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?
Define Federalism
What is power is divided between national and state governments?
The reason for constitutional conventions
What is to discuss the creation of the Constitution?
All state legislatures are this
What is bicameral?
What is the protection against unlawful imprisonment?
WHO stands for this
What is the World Health Organization?
The American, federalist that was a founding father, known for being "The Father of the Constitution"
What is James Madison?
The Articles of Confederation were replaced by this document
What is the U.S. Constitution?
The model of state constitutions
What is the US constitution?
This amendment gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th amendment?
A one way commitment with no requirement to participate
Define Republicanism
What is the belief that government should be based on the consent of the people?
This person said "The tree of liberty"
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
NAFTA stands for this
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement?
These 3 amendments are known as the civil rights aendments
What are the 13, 14, and 15 amendments?
These people are considered stakeholders
What are elected officials, business owners, the media, and nonprofits?
The rights that God gave you and cannot be taken away
What is unalienable rights?
Describe the great compromise
What is the house of representatives would be based on population, senate will be equal?
What are powers given to the state and Congress?
This allows a person to be punished for something that was not against the law when the crime was committed
What is the ex post facto?
Define vigilant justice
What is taking the law into your own hands as a citizen?