DTQ 1: The Preamble
Identify the document section that lists the reasons the Constitution was written.
What is The Preamble?
Identify the system that divides power between national, state, and local governments.
What is federalism?
Name the amendment that protects freedom of speech.
What is the First Amendment?
Name the term for putting forth a proposed amendment.
What is proposal?
Name the opening phrase that says government power comes from the people.
What is “We the People”?
Define the Preamble.
What is the Preamble, the Constitution’s introduction that states its purposes?
Name the phrase that establishes government power comes from the people.
What is “We the People”?
Identify the government level responsible for foreign policy.
What is the national government?
Name the amendment that protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
Name the body that may propose an amendment with support from two-thirds of both houses.
What is Congress?
Name the clause that makes the Constitution and federal laws supreme over conflicting state laws.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
Define commerce and foreign policy.
What are commerce, the buying and selling of goods, and foreign policy, a nation’s relations with other countries?
Identify the purpose of government connected to keeping peace within the country.
What is ensuring domestic tranquility?
Name the term for powers shared by national and state governments.
What are concurrent powers?
Name the amendment that guarantees a speedy, public trial by an impartial jury.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
Identify the state-based method for proposing an amendment
What is a convention called by two-thirds of the states?
Name the amendment that reserves undelegated powers to the states, and identify the type of powers it reserves.
What is the Tenth Amendment and the reserved powers of the states?
Contrast proposal and ratification; define federalism, delegated powers, and concurrent powers.
What are proposal, the act of putting forward a constitutional change, and ratification, its formal approval; federalism, shared power between national and state governments; delegated powers, those assigned to the national government; and concurrent powers, those shared by national and state governments?
Identify the purpose connected to armed forces and national defense.
What is providing for the common defense?
Name the amendment that reserves powers not delegated to the national government to the states.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
Name the amendment that guarantees equal protection of the laws.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
State the share of states required to ratify an amendment.
What are three-fourths of the states?
Explain how the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments protect due process, and identify the additional Fourteenth Amendment protection.
What are the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments; equal protection of the laws?
Connect the Fourteenth Amendment to equal protection, and identify the Supremacy Clause and federal law.
What are the Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees equal protection, and the Supremacy Clause, which makes the Constitution and federal laws supreme over conflicting state laws?
State all six purposes of the Constitution listed in the Preamble.
What are forming a more perfect union, establishing justice, ensuring domestic tranquility, providing for the common defense, promoting the general welfare, and securing the blessings of liberty?
Identify the national government’s constitutional status and name two responsibilities of state governments.
What is supremacy under the Supremacy Clause; state responsibilities include promoting public health, safety, education, and welfare?
Explain how the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments protect due process, and name the additional protection the Fourteenth Amendment
What are the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments; equal protection of the laws?
Describe both proposal methods and the ratification requirement for changing the Constitution.
What is proposal by two-thirds of both houses of Congress or by a convention called by two-thirds of the states, followed by ratification by three-fourths of the states?
The Constitution has 27 amendments. Describe both ways an amendment can be proposed and the threshold for ratification.
What are proposal by two-thirds of both houses of Congress or by a convention called by two-thirds of the states, followed by ratification by three-fourths of the states?
Define convention, due process, and republicanism; identify the Bill of Rights and the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments.
What are a convention, a meeting called by states to propose amendments; due process, fair legal procedures; and republicanism, government by representatives elected by the people? The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments: the First protects freedoms including speech and religion; the Fourth protects against unreasonable searches and seizures; the Fifth protects due process; and the Sixth guarantees rights in criminal trials.