Bill of Rights
This amendment protects your right to free speech, religion, and expression.
What is the First Amendment
These are the two Houses of Congress
This person writes a bill and introduces it to their house of Congress.
Who is a Congressman (or Representative/Senator)
The Constitution is called this type of document because it can change
What is a "living document"
Joe Biden spent approximately this much money on his 2020 Presidential campaign
What is $1.6 billion
This amendment protects your to bear arms
What is the Second Amendment
This is the number of senators each state elects to the Senate.
What is 2
This is the first step in the lawmaking process after a bill is introduced.
What is committee hearings and amendments
This amendment gives all powers not specifically given to the federal government to the states and people.
What is the Tenth Amendment
This is the current limit on how much money a person or business can donate to a politician's campaign.
What is no defined limit
This amendment protects you from cruel and unusual punishments.
What is the Eighth Amendment
States with this characteristic receive the most representatives in Congress.
What is the highest population?
This person schedules bills for debate in the House of Representatives.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
This amendment protects you from unreasonable and unwarranted searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment
These are people hired to influence politicians and lobby for specific causes or interests.
Who are lobbyists
This amendment ensures you cannot be charged with the same crime twice or be forced to testify against yourself.
What is the Fifth Amendment
This branch of government has the power to declare war.
What is the Legislative branch
This fraction of Congress is needed to override a Presidential veto.
What is two-thirds (⅔)
This amendment ensures your right to a speedy trial and to be informed of charges if arrested.
What is the Sixth Amendment
This is the practice of redrawing electoral district boundaries to favor one political party
What is gerrymandering
This amendment states that you have more rights than just the ones listed in the Bill of Rights.
What is the Ninth Amendment
What is the requirement for an Amendment to be past in congress?
In lawmaking, this person is called the sponsor of the bill.
Who is the person who wrote the bill
This amendment prohibited slavery in the United States.
What is the thirteenth Amendment?
The act of political spending where the source of funds do not have to be disclosed.
What is Dark Money?