"We the people, in order to form a more perfect union", begins this section of the Constitution
What is the Preamble?
100
The number of amendments contained in the Bill of Rights.
What is ten?
100
This date celebrates the completion of the Declaration of Independence.
What is July 4, 1776?
100
The term used to describe the system which keeps any one branch from becoming too powerful.
What is checks and balances? or separation of powers?
100
This amendment ended slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
200
The term meaning 'changes' to the Constitution.
What is amendments?
200
The First Amendment projects a citizen's rights to these five basic freedoms.
What are religion, assembly, petition, press and speech?
200
The writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
Some of the jobs of this branch are making laws and approving Presidential appointments to the Supreme Court and Cabinet.
What is the legislative branch?
200
Whether or not a proposed law, also known as a bill, is constitutional is decided by this judicial group.
What is the Supreme Court?
300
The organizational plan for our government is described in this section of the Constitution.
What are the articles?
300
This amendment protects a person's right to own weapons.
What is the 2nd amendment?
300
The main reason for the Declaration of Independence.
What is 'the colonists wanted to be free from England'?
300
The federal executive branch is made up of these three members.
What is the President, Vice-President, and Cabinet?
300
A person not born in the United States who becomes a citizen.
What is a naturalized citizen?
400
The name given to the combination of the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan where each side accepted part of the other's plan.
What is the Great Compromise?
400
A person's right to due process of law including a fair and speedy trial and freedom from testifying against themself is protected in these amendments.
What are amendments 5 - 8?
400
This king was unkind and unfair to the colonists.
Who is King George III?
400
Similar to Congress, this is the Tennessee legislative branch.
What is the General Assembly?
400
The number of electoral college votes that WA current has?
What is 12?
500
The first plan of government later replaced by the Constitution.
What is Articles of Confederation?
500
The year the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution.
What is 1791?
500
The number of men who joined John Hancock in signing the Declaration of Independence.
What is 55?
500
Johnson City is governed by this group of individuals.
What is the city commission?
500
These two (or more) responsibilities come with the right of U.S. citizenship.
What is voting, jury duty, paying taxes, volunteering?