Amendments
The number of amendments found in the U.S. Constitution.
What is 27?
True or False? The government and citizens should not lie.
What is truth?
This document was ratified on September 17, 1787.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
This man was the oldest man at the convention.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The three branches of government.
What are Legislative, Executive, and Judicial?
The first 10 amendments are called this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Citizens should work together for the good of all. The government should make laws that are good for everyone.
What is the common good?
What are the 3 parts of the Constitution?
What are the preamble, the 7 Articles and the 27 amendments?
This eventual Secretary of the Treasury thought we needed a strong, central government and he fixed the nation's troubled finances.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This is in place to make sure that no branch of government is more powerful than another.
What are checks and balances?
The 1st amendment.
What is freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and the right to petition the Government?
Each citizen has the right to the protection of this.
What is their life?
How can the Constitution be changed?
What is by amendments?
He was the master builder of the Constitution and believed the federal government should control trade and protect people's rights.
Who is James Madison
The judicial department is made up of these.
What are judges?
The 19th amendment gave women the right to do this.
What is the vote in federal elections?
A devotion to our country and the core democratic values in word and deed.
What is patriotism?
How long did it take to write the Constitution?
What is 4 months?
He was the leader of the Constitutional Convention and the first president under the new government.
Who is George Washington?
These roles make up the executive branch.
Who are the president and cabinet members?
The 13th amendment made this illegal.
What is slavery?
Name the first three Core Democratic Values found in the Declaration of Independence.
What is life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
The Constitutional Convention took place to write a document to replace this existing document.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This man was called "the wisest man in America".
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
What are the two chambers in our bicameral legislative branch?
What are the Senate & House of Representatives?