Constitution #1
These people make up the executive branch…
Who is the President, Vice President and Cabinet
Five Freedoms: Speech, Religion, Press, Assembly, Petition.
What is the 1st Amendment?
This system of government assures power is not centralized in one person or agency.
What is Separation of Powers?
The first 10 amendments of the Constitution are called...
What is the Bill of Rights?
Name 2 state (reserved) powers
Establish schools, assume powers NOT delegated to the federal government, ratify amendments, Regulate intrastate commerce, establish county and municipal governments
Sets up & defines the government and protects the rights of Americans
What is the function of the Constitution?
This constitution has this many amendments.
What is 27?
Can Enforce laws
Executive Branch
Name 2 federal (delegated) powers
Declare war, establish post offices, print money, regulate interstate commerce, treaties with foreign governments, conduct diplomacy, admit new states
The right to bear arms.
What is the 2nd amendment?
What is impeachment?
To bring charges against the people that administer the law
This person has the authority to veto bills passed in Congress.
Who is the President?
Amendment that gave women the right to vote
19th
You CAN be this age to vote in the United States AND because of this amendment
What is 18? 26th
A change or an addition to the Constitution?
What is an Amendment?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Can Judge or Interpret laws
Judicial branch
What is the Supremacy Clause
Federal laws come before/overrule state laws
This amendment guarantees the rights of criminal defendants, including the right to a public trial without unnecessary delay, the right to a lawyer, the right to an impartial jury, and the right to know who your accusers are and the nature of the charges and evidence against you.
What is the 6th amendment?
A system that divides the power between the central/national and state governments?
federalism
In order for an amendment to be ratified to the US Constitution it needs _ members of Congress and _ number of states to pass.
2/3 Congress
3/4 States
Can make the Laws
What is Legislative Branch?
This is a check that the executive branch has over the judicial branch
Can nominate/appoint judges
This amendment makes it illegal to make a citizen pay a voting fee or take a reading test to vote
24th
Article that ratified the Constitution
Article 7
The branch that declares laws unconstitutional
Judicial Branch
This protects you from "cruel or unusual punishment" if convicted of a crime.
What is the 8th Amendment?
This amendment requires the police to have the warrant to search your person or property.
What is the 4th Amendment?
What does bicameral mean?
2 houses of Congress