Category 1
The first ten amendments to the constitution, which guarantee fundamental liberties, are known as the _________ ___ ________.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This amendment protects freedom of expression.
What is the first amendment?
This amendment protects the right to bear arms.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
The judicial branch is known as the ___________ __________.
What is the Supreme Court?
This is the supreme law of the land in the United States.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
These are the two major parties in the United States.
What are Democratic and Republican?
What is the House of Representatives?
Every state gets two representatives in this chamber of Congress.
What is the Senate?
The U.S. president is not directly elected by the people, but rather by the __________ __________.
What is the Electoral College?
This is the learning process that leads to acquiring political beliefs.
What is political socialization?
This amendment allows for people to not have to be witnesses against themselves in a trial.
What is the fifth amendment?
"You have the right to remain silent, anything you say...You have the right to an attorney, if you cannot afford one..."
What is the Miranda Warning/Rights?
These are the three branches of government.
What are the executive, legislative, and the judicial?
This amendment protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the 4th amendment?
Which Amendment provides for legal counsel for defendants before and during a trial?
What is the Sixth Amendment?
This is the system that ensures that no one branch of the government is more powerful than the others.
What is checks and balances?
This is the small number of individuals who are interviewed to measure the opinion of a population.
What is a sample?
These are elements such as family and the media that impact people's political beliefs through interactions.
What are agents of socialization?
The theme of "equality" in the Declaration of Independence was influenced by this philosophical movement.
What is the Enlightnment?
This was the name of the government of the United States before the U.S. Constitution.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
This is a government program that provides health insurance to low-income individuals.
What is medicaid?
This government program by Franklin Roosevelt expanded the role of the federal government during the Great Depression.
What was the New Deal?
This amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
This is applied to decrease the potential bias in poll participants.
What is random selection?
He was the main writer of the U.S. Constitution.
Who was James Madison?
This Supreme Court chief justice was crucial in implementing judicial review - declaring laws unconstitutional.
Who was John Marshall?
This prohibits the use of evidence obtained by unconstitutional means.
What is the exclusionary rule?
These were a series of essays by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay arguing in favor of ratification.
What are the Federalist Papers?
These are powers directly granted to the national government by the U.S. Constitution.
What are enumerated/expressed powers?
This court case ended segregation in public spaces in the United States.
What is Brown v. Board?