Articles
This article creates the law-making branch of government.
What is Article I?
The idea that government gets its power from the people.
What is consent of the governed / popular sovereignty?
This amendment protects freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the First Amendment?
This level of government controls education and marriage laws.
What is state government?
Federal funds given to states to support programs like schools or highways.
What is federal aid?
The President and Vice President get their powers from this article.
What is Article II?
This principle keeps any one branch from becoming too powerful.
What is checks and balances?
These amendments guarantee due process protections.
What are the 4th through 7th Amendments?
Coining money and declaring war are examples of these powers.
What are national (delegated) powers?
Rules the national government requires states to follow, sometimes without funding.
What are mandates?
This article establishes the Supreme Court and the federal court system.
What is Article III?
The idea that the government can only do what the Constitution allows.
What is limited government?
These amendments abolished slavery, granted citizenship, and protected African American voting rights.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
These are powers shared by national and state governments.
What are concurrent powers?
When federal law overrides or replaces state or local law.
What is preemption?
The branch described in Article I is made up of these two houses.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
Life, liberty, and property are examples of these.
What are natural rights?
This amendment limits the President to two terms.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
These are powers that neither the national nor state governments may exercise.
What are denied powers?
Congress must pass this act to allow a territory to write a state constitution.
What is an enabling act?
This article gives Congress the power to make all laws “necessary and proper.”
What is Article I (Elastic Clause)?
The principle that lets courts strike down unconstitutional laws.
What is judicial review?
This amendment outlines presidential succession and what happens if the president becomes disabled.
What is the 25th Amendment?
This clause makes the Constitution the highest law of the land.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
Shifts in this phenomenon influence whether sthe government favor stronger state or national power.
What are political parties?