Amendments
There have been 27 of these.
What are amendments to the Constitution?
Age a person must be to be elected president.
What is 35?
Relations among the states
What is the topic of Article IV?
This man was the oldest man at the convention.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
Federal body that has two representatives from each state.
What is the Senate?
The first 10 amendments of the Constitution.
What are the The Bill of Rights?
Reason a president can be impeached.
What are treason, bribery, high crimes, and misdemeanors?
The number of articles in the Constitution.
What is 7?
He was the leader of the Constitutional Convention and the first president of the United States.
Who was George Washington?
The legislative body from which all bills concerning taxes and revenue must originate.
What is the House of Representatives?
These are guaranteed in the 1st amendment.
What are freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly and the right to petition the Government?
The President's power to "check" legislation passed by Congress.
What is veto?
The number of states that had to ratify the Constitution before it became law.
What is 9?
Master builder of the Constitution, and fought to secure the passage of the Bill of Rights.
Who was James Madison?
Officiates when the president is tried for impeachment.
Who is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
The 19th Amendment secured this right for women.
What is vote?
Required to approve a treaty or nomination.
What is 2/3rds vote by Congress?
The only limitation in the Constitution as to what could be the basis of an Amendment.
What is the slave trade before 1808?
Favored a strong, central government and joined James Madison and John Jay in writing the Federalist Papers
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
Gives Congress the most general, non-specific powers.
What is the Elastic or Necessary and Proper Clause?
The 13th Amendment made this illegal in the United States.
What is slavery?
During times when Congress is not in session.
When can the president temporarily appoint officials to fill vacancies?
Each state's citizens receive equal treatment in all states.
What are privileges and immunities?
Emerged as one of the leading figures at the Constitutional Convention and spoke more frequently than anyone else.
Who was Gouverneur Morris?
May be suspended in times of war.
What is writ of habeas corpus?