Theory
American Government
Constitution
Bill of Rights
First Amendment
100
The right to life, liberty, and property
What are Natural Rights?
100
Type of government that Founding Fathers did NOT want to have in the new United States
What is a monarchy?
100
The number of Articles in the U.S. Constitution
What is seven?
100
The number of Amendments in the Bill of Rights
What is ten?
100
Court case that addressed students' rights to freedom of speech
What is Tinker vs Des Moines School District?
200
The three philosophers of government theory that we have studied in this class.
Who are Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau?
200
The meeting at which the Founding Fathers decided to make a new type of government for the new United States
What is the Constitutional Convention?
200
The Article of the Constitution that lists the responsibilities of the Legislative Branch
What is Article I?
200
Amendment that protects a citizen's right to bear arms
What is the 2nd Amendment?
200
People can group together on public property
What is assembly?
300
A type of government that is ruled by the people
What is democracy?
300
The name of the compromise at the Constitutional Convention which addressed the population of slaves
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
300
The Article of the Constitution that lists the responsibilities of the Judicial Branch
What is Article III?
300
Being tried twice for the same crime
What is double jeopardy?
300
Newspapers, radio, television, magazines, Internet
What is press?
400
Type of government in which the people are ruled by religious leaders and religious law
What is a theocracy?
400
The plan proposed at the Constitutional Constitution that would have made the large states more powerful than the small states
What is the Virginia Plan?
400
The Article of the Constitution that lists the responsibilities of the Executive Branch
What is Article II?
400
The idea that religion and government must be kept separate
What is the separation of church and state?
400
The "rules" that govern the application of the First Amendment
What are First Principles?
500
Protects individual rights and preserves the common good
What is the Rule of Law?
500
The original constitution of the United States, which created a weak federal government.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
500
The name of the beginning to the United States to the Constitution
What is the Preamble?
500
The Amendment that protects citizens from cruel and unusual punishment
What is the 8th Amendment?
500
All five parts of the First Amendment
What are freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of press, freedom of petition, and freedom of assembly?
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