General Constitutional Knowledge
The first 10 amendments of the Constitution are called this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The President of the Senate.
What is the Vice President?
This is the qualification that is forbidden when holding any public office.
What is a religious test?
The right to bear arms is stated in this amendment.
What is the 2nd amendment?
The 10th amendment talks about reserving rights to the states or the people. This is an example of this Constitutional Principle.
What is Limited Goverment?
The delegates met in this city to ratify the Constitution.
What is Philadelphia?
This group sets the salary of Congress.
This decides how many federal courts we have.
What is Congress?
This amendment ended slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
In Articles 1-3 it shows the powers each branch has over another and the powers they each have individually. This is an example of this Constitutional Principle.
What is Checks and Balances or Seperation of Powers?
The state’s agreement to count each slave as three-fifths of a person to decide how many House of Representatives each state has.
This body of Congress must approve a treaty that the President has negotiated. There must be at least two thirds voting for the treaty to be approved.
What is the Senate?
This is necessary to convict someone of treason.
What is the testimony of two witnesses or a confession?
In the 20th amendment, the Constitution states that this date is the day that the new President shall be inaugurated.
What is January 20th?
The 10th amendment talks about reserving rights to the states or the people. This is an example of this Constitutional Principle.
What is Federalism?
William Paterson made this plan, which proposed a single-house Congress and was favored by smaller states.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
This happens to a bill that is NOT returned from the President in 10 days.
What is becomes a law?
Name one of the main topics of the fourth article.
What are states, citizenship, or new states?
This amendment extended the voting age to 18-years-old.
What is the 26th amendment?
The 17th Amendment talks about the POPULAR election of Senators. This is an example of this Constitutional Principle.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
The first EIGHT amendments were requested by the states and protected this.
What are personal liberties?
This is one of the six things that section EIGHT of the Constitution that enumerates the powers of Congress.
What is to borrow money, to regulate commerce with foreign nations, make laws, provide and maintain an army/navy, coin/print money, or establish post offices?
The limitation put on admitting new states to a union.
What is the consent of Congress?
Name one of the five basic civil liberties that are guaranteed in the First Amendment.
What is Speech, Religion, Press, Assembly, or Petition?
In Article 4 section 4, it states that the United States shall protect each of the states against Invasion. This is an example of this Constitutional Principle.
What is Republicanism?