Vocab
One who owes allegiance to a state and is entitled to its protection
What is a citizen?
Double jeopardy and self-incrimination
One similarity between the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.
What is the importance of individual liberty?
Outlawed slavery
What is the thirteenth amendment?
When you spend over your budget and add to your total debt.
What is deficit spending?
Basic principle of the American system of government; that government is limited in what it may do, and each individual has certain rights that government cannot take away.
What is limited government?
Reserved powers for the states.
What is the tenth amendment?
The reason the amendment process was added to the Constitution.
What is "Allow government to meet the changing needs of society?"
This topic has been the focus of most amendments we discussed (after the Bill of Rights).
What is voting?
How does the government manage the economy through fiscal policy?
What is "taxes and spending?"
A group of individual state governments that band together for a common purpose
What is a confederation?
5 freedoms of the first amendment.
What are the freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition?
The most significant change from the Articles of Confederation to the United States Constitution.
What is "Strengthening the power of the Federal Government?"
The 24th Amendment expands upon the 15th. How?
What is the removal of poll taxes?
Why does the government place tariffs on imports?
What is "to protect domestic industry?"
Form of government in which all of the powers of the government are held by a single agency, as in Great Britain; local governments are completely subordinate to and have only those powers given to them by the central government
What is unitary government?
Unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the fourth amendment?
Thomas Jefferson said, “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free… it expects what never was and never will be.” What does this statement say about being a citizen?
What is "Citizens need to be informed about what their government is doing?"
This amendment gave citizenship to everyone born or naturalized in the US.
What is the fourteenth amendment?
What must the majority always do in a system of majority rights?
Form of government with governmental powers divided between a central government and several regional governments; this geographically based division of powers is made by an authority superior to both the central and the regional governments.
What is federal government?
Quartering of soldiers
What is the third amendment?
The principle was most fundamental to the authors of the United States Constitution
What is "A government of limited powers?"
The passage of the Civil War amendments showed that...
What is "that the federal government can expand their powers when needed?"
What is the main purpose of taxes?
What is "to provide for the common good?"