Fundamental Principles
The Constitution
The Constitution 2
Bill of Rights
Important Documents
100
This principle states that the government is not all powerful and may do only those things people give it the power to do.
What is Limited Government?
100
The number of Amendments currently in the Constitution
What is 27?
100
The 3 branches of the Federal government
What are the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branches?
100
These rights are protected by the 1st Amendment.
What are speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition?
100
The Magna Carta demonstrates this fundamental principle.
What is Rule of Law?
200
This principle says that the government and those who govern are bound by the law.
What is Rule of Law?
200
To amend the Constitution, this fraction needs to ratify the amendment.
What is 3/4?
200
Article I describes the powers of this branch of the federal government.
What is the Legislative Branch?
200
This amendment protect citizens against unlawful search and seizure.
What is the fourth amendment?
200
The Virginia Declaration of Rights demonstrates this fundamental principle.
What is Limited Government/Democracy?
300
This principle states that in a democratic system of government, the people rule.
What is Democracy?
300
This group can propose an amendment to the Constitution.
What is Congress?
300
Article V of the Constitution describes this process.
What is the amendment process?
300
The amendment protects citizens against the involuntary quartering of soldiers during peacetime.
What is the 3rd Amendment?
300
This document created the first U.S. national government.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
400
A system in which people elect public officeholders to make laws and conduct government on their behalf.
What is a Representative Government?
400
Article II of the Constitution explains the organization of this branch of the government of the U.S.
What is the Executive Branch?
400
The words, "We the People" in the Preamble demonstrate this fundamental principle.
What is Democracy?
400
This amendment guarantees due process, no double jeopardy, and no requirement to testify against yourself.
What is the 5th Amendment?
400
These are the unalienable rights listed in the Declaration of Independence.
What are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?
500
This principle states that people are the source of any and all government power.
What is Consent of the Governed?
500
Recite the words to the Preamble.
"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
500
List the 4 purposes of the Constitution (PAGE).
P- Protects Freedoms A- Affirms individual worth and Dignity G- Guarantees equality under the law E- Establishes structure of the government
500
These are the restrictions put in place by the 8th Amendment.
What are no excessive bails or fines; no cruel and unusual punishment?
500
The main weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What is not enough federal power/too much power given to the states?
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