Check Mate
Real World
GUILTY!
Building Blocks
Under the Influence
100
Anti-Federalist that wanted the national government small so that it would not aggrandize themselves and infringe on individual rights
Who is George Mason?
100
Allows you to criticize the government
What is Freedom of Speech (1st Amendment)?
100
Right to a local, speedy and public trial with a jury of your peers - also right to a lawyer
What is the 6th Amendment?
100
Created the post office
What is a strength of the Articles of Confederation?
100
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
What are Unalienable Rights/Individual Rights?
200
Protection in publishing critical newspaper articles about the federal government
What is the Freedom of Press? (1st Amendment)?
200
Keeping soldiers from being quartered in our homes.
What is no quartering of troops (3rd Amendment)?
200
Right to a jury in a civil case.
What is the 7th Amendment?
200
Believes the Constitution protects your individual rights without the need for a Bill of Rights
What is a Federalist?
200
Influenced the Constitution
What are the Mayflower Compact, Virginia House of Burgesses, other colonial implementation of self-government?
300
Presidential Veto
What is an example of Checks and Balances?
300
- part of your 1st Amendment rights
What are Freedom of RELIGION, ASSEMBLY, PETITION, PRESS or SPEECH?
300
Protection from unreasonable searches and seizures of personal property
What is the 4th Amendment?
300
Bicameral legislature consisting of a House and Senate
What is part of the Great Compromise?
300
Anti-Federalist goal in adding the Bill of Rights to the Constitution
What is protecting individual rights?
400
To prevent one branch from taking control of the government
What are Checks and Balances?
400
Power reserved for the States in the 10th Amendment
What is Federalism?
400
Right to refuse testimony against yourself.
What is the 5th Amendment?
400
Gave the Southern states an advantage in representation in the House
What is the 3/5th Compromise?
400
Father of the Constitution
Who is James Madison?
500
Comes from the Magna Carta in 1215 and is part of the 5th Amendment
What is due process?
500
Judicial Review from the Supreme Court falls under this Principle of the Constitution.
What is Checks and Balances?
500
Protects you from cruel and unusual punishment or excessive fines.
What is the 8th Amendment?
500
What is the process of amending the Constitution?
500
Idea in the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution stating that the States and Federal government both have power
What is Federalism?