Amendments
What is the 21st amendment?
What is the branch that can declare laws unconstitutional?
What is the judicial branch?
What is a legislative check on the judicial branch?
An amendment.
What is one of the additions to the Constitution added after the Constitutional Convention called?
How the Constitution is to be ratified.
What is described in the 7th article of the Constitution?
1865
In what year was the 13th amendment signed?
The sum of the number of Supreme Court justices, the president, and the number of Congressmen.
What is 545?
The branch that proposes the budget.
What is the executive branch?
An article.
What is a portion of the Constitution detailing things such as the basic organization of our three branches called?
The Father of the Constitution.
What is a nickname of James Madison?
States cannot be sued by citizens of other states.
What does the 11th amendment state, paraphrased?
Theodore Roosevelt placed it there.
Who placed the executive branch above the legislative branch in importance in the public eye?
Veto and Override
What is an executive check on the legislative, and how can it be removed in an inverse check?
Republicanism
What is support for a republic called?
The House of Lords.
Which house of Parliament was a partial model for the House of Representatives?
12 and the 27th.
How many amendments were originally proposed for the bill of rights and when one was ratified in 1992, which amendment did it become?
The branch of the US government containing a group whose name comes from the latin word for "old man."
Judicial Review.
What judicial check isn't listed explicitly in the Constitution?
A state in which government cannot act as a force limiting the actions of a populace, resulting in chaos.
What is anarchy?
The sum of the number of words in the Constitution's preamble, the number of articles in the Constitution, and the number of amendments to the Constitution.
What is 86?
The amendment that speaks of both oaths and debts.
What is Yitro?
The title both awarded to a famous writer and one who destroyed a system of checks and balances.
What is Pater Pateriae?
The pieces of writing published in favor of greater centralization and the lack of a Bill of Rights.
What are the Federalist Papers?
It began because a guy got a C on his paper.
Why did the campaign that led to the 27th amendment being ratified begin?