Articles
Principals
Bill of Rights
Exceptions
Further Amendments
100
This is the number of articles in the constitution
What is seven?
100
This is the division of power between the state and national governments
What is Federalism?
100
The only amendment in the bill of rights that has never been the primary basis of a Supreme Court decision
What is the 3rd Amendment?
100
The most common exception to your right against searches and seizures is this, a legal document allowing one.
What is a Warrant?
100
This is the number of amendments in the constitution
What is 27?
200
This is the responsibility one state to transfer a suspected or convicted criminal to another state
What is Extradition?
200
This power allows members of the supreme court to determine the constitutionality of laws
What is Judicial Review?
200
The amount you must sue over to qualify for a jury trial according to the 7th amendment
What is $20?
200
This is formal term for lying in the press
What is Libel?
200
This is the current federal voting age
What is 18
300
This is the highest ranking member of the House
What is the Speaker of the House?
300
The idea that the people rule
What is popular sovereignty?
300
This 5th amendment right forbids a defendant from being tried again on the same charges following a legitimate acquittal or conviction.
What is Double Jeopardy?
300
This principal states that the government may not prevent material from being printed (except in wartime) but may punish a person for what they have printed afterwards
What is Prior Restraint?
300
This is the maximum number of terms a person can serve as president
What is 2?
400
Under article 1 this member of the executive serves as formal leader of the senate
Who is the Vice President?
400
This basic american principle is not well-treated by the constitution, which separated people from power.
What is Democracy?
400
The first amendment guarantees Freedom of Speech, Assembly Religion, the Press and this.
What is Petition?
400
Prison workhouses frequently make use of the criminal exception to this amendment
What is the 13th Amendment?
400
This is the only amendment to directly expand government power without also increasing rights
What is the 16th amendment?
500
This Article set the process by which new states enter the union
What is Article 4?
500
According to Gideon v. Wainwright, the 14th amendment created this, forcing the states to apply all aspects of the bill of rights
What is Incorporation?
500
This was the topic of the ORIGINAL first amendment, passed by the first congress in 1789
What is Congressional Apportionment/Representation?
500
This exception to the first amendment has never been formally defined, making it difficult to use
What is Obscenity?
500
The 12th Amendment covers this
What are Presidential Elections/Tickets?
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