Representation
This chamber of Congress gives each state two members, regardless of population.
What is the Senate?
This amendment guarantees that citizens 18 and older cannot be denied the right to vote based on age.
What is the 26th Amendment?
This chamber of Congress must ratify treaties by a two‑thirds vote.
What is the Senate?
This amendment protects freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the First Amendment?
This chamber’s seats are apportioned based on population, recalculated every ten years.
What is the House of Representatives?
This amendment prohibits denying the right to vote on account of race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This branch of government has the power to negotiate treaties.
What is the Executive Branch?
This amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This 1787 compromise created a bicameral legislature balancing large and small states.
What is the Great Compromise?
This amendment secured women’s suffrage nationwide in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This constitutional clause makes treaties part of the “supreme Law of the Land.”
What is the Supremacy Clause?
This amendment guarantees the right to remain silent and protection against self‑incrimination.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
This constitutional process determines how many House seats each state receives.
What is apportionment?
This amendment bans poll taxes in federal elections.
What is the 24th Amendment?
This power allows the president to receive ambassadors and conduct diplomacy.
What are the president’s foreign affairs powers?
This amendment ensures the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury.
What is the Ninth Amendment?
This clause originally counted enslaved persons as three‑fifths of a person for representation and taxation.
What is the Three‑Fifths Compromise?
This constitutional principle allows states to administer elections but requires them to follow federal protections.
What is federalism?
This congressional power authorizes the use of military force, even though the president is Commander in Chief.
What is the power to declare war?
This amendment states that rights not listed in the Constitution are still retained by the people.
What is the Ninth Amendment?