Amendments
The first ten Amendments.
What is the Bill of Rights?
These are the names of the three branches of government.
What is the legislative, executive, and judicial branch?
The idea that the people are the source of power in a government is known as this.
What is popular sovereignty?
These are currently the two major political parties in the United Sates.
What are democrats and republicans?
This was the first constitution of the United States.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Freedom of speech, press, religion, petition, and assembly
What is the First Amendment?
Congress is this, meaning it is divided into two chambers - the Senate and the House of Representatives.
What is a bicameral legislature?
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind - it also was the theme of this set of laws.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
Interesting... The goal of this group of people is to sway public opinion to support (or oppose) a certain candidate or issue.
What is an interest group?
Some people were in favor of creating a new constitution... these people were NOT!
Who are Anti-Federalists?
No excessive bail or cruel and unusual punishment
What is the 8th Amendment?
This is the main responsibility of the judicial branch.
What is to interpret laws?
John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Baron de Montesquieu, and Jean Jacques Rousseau were philosophers in this movement.
What is the Enlightenment?
Testimonials, Card Stacking, and Glittering Generalities are all examples of this, meant to promote a political cause.
What is propaganda?
The Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan were combined to make this.
What is the Great Compromise?
The right to this is guaranteed by the 5th Amendment.
What is the right to due process?
When the President is leading the nation's armed forces and shaping the defense policy, they are referred to by this title.
What is Commander in Chief?
The Magna Carta established that King John was subject to the law of the land - which was an early example of this principle of democracy.
What is rule of law?
This body of representatives are responsible for formally electing the next President of the United States.
What is the Electoral College?
The uprising that would eventually lead to the Constitutional Convention.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
Both the 15th and the 19th Amendment protects these kinds of rights.
What are voting rights?
This landmark case gave the Supreme Court the power of Judicial Review.
This document was significant in many ways - including being an example of self-government and a kind of social contract.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
In a Primary, party members vote for the best candidate to represent them in the General Election. In this other meeting, party members choose the best candidate through a series of discussions.
What is a caucus?
These were three of the main topics of debate at the Constitutional Convention.
What are individual rights, representation, and slavery?