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This is the percentage of Congress needed to override a presidential veto.
What is a 2/3s vote?
These three amendments were the result of the Civil War.
What are amendments 13, 14, 15?
He wrote the Bill of Rights.
Who is James Madison?
This article of the constitution is about Full Faith and Credit.
What is Article IV?
This was the year of the first constitutional convention.
What is 1787?
This is how the Constitution creates a separation of powers.
What are the three branches (executive, judicial, and legislative)?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
The reason the bill of rights was added to the constitution.
What is to appease the Anti-Federalists?
This article of the Constitution established the judicial branch.
What is Article III?
This was the original purpose of the first constitutional convention.
What is to revise the Articles of Confederation?
This system allows the division of powers between the state and federal government.
What is federalism?
This Supreme Court case was overturned by the 13th and 14th amendments.
What is Dred Scott v Sandford?
This Bill of Rights amendment gives state governments powers not delegated to the federal government or prohibited to them by the Constitution.
What is the 10th amendment?
This clause establishes the constitution as the “supreme law of the land”.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
This was the resolution to the issue of counting slaves as part of the population of states.
What is the 3/5ths compromise?
This allows the different branches of government to limit the power of other branches.
What is the system of checks and balances?
This was the protection originally in the Constitution without the Bill of Rights that prevented people from being jailed without being told the reason why.
What is the writ of habeas corpus?
This is the number of amendments in total in the Bill of Rights.
What is a total of 10 amendments?
This part of Article II allows Congress to regulate interstate commerce.
What is the Commerce Clause?
This resolved the representation issues between small and large states.
What is The Great Compromise that established the bicameral legislature?
This is what the Constitution put in place to protect America from tyranny.
What are regular elections (especially for the presidency)?
These protections are guaranteed to citizens under the first amendment.
What is freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and right to petition the government?
This is guaranteed by the 7th amendment.
What is the right to a jury in federal civil cases worth more than $20?
This article of the constitution describes how to make changes to the constitution.
What is Article V?
This is the number of states it took to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
What is nine states?