The U.S. Constitution
The Declaration of Independence
The Enlightenment
CSPAN Student Cam
100
This city hosted the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
What is Philadelphia?
100
The Declaration of Independence includes grievances against this individual.
Who is King George III?
100
An intellectual movement in the 17th and 18th century that advocated the use of reason to reconsider the accepted ideas and the social institution of the time.
What is the Enlightenment?
100
The 2026 StudentCam theme encourages students to explore the enduring impact of this foundational American document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
200
Article I Section 8 gives Congress powers including collecting taxes, regulating commerce, and declaring this.
What is war?
200
The Declaration of Independence argues that whenever governments fail to protect the Natural Rights of its citizens, it is the citizens right and duty to do this.
What is overthrow the government and replace it?
200
Mary Wollstonecraft argued that this group of people were also born with unalienable rights.
Who are women?
200
Entrants must include clips from this type of programming in their documentaries.
What is C-SPAN programming?
300
The Three-Fifths compromise counted this group of people as three-fifths of a person for purposes of representation and taxation.
Who are enslaved African-Americans?
300
Complete the sentence, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are ___, ____, and the ___ __ _____."
What are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness?
300
This Enlightenment thinker popularized the idea of humans being born with the Natural Rights of Life, Liberty, and Property.
Who is John Locke?
300
The Grand Prize Winner of the 2025 competition focused on this issue.
What is the Fentanyl Overdose Crisis?
400
According to Article V, this fraction of both houses of Congress must agree to propose an amendment to the Constitution.
What is two-thirds?
400
Thomas Jefferson argues that all men are given Natural, unalienable rights, by this.
Who is their Creator?
400
Jean-Jacque Rousseau wrote a book called this, in which he argued that at the bottom of the things, the power to govern was in the hands of the people.
What is The Social Contract?
400
This is the final deadline for submitting entries to the 2026 StudentCam competition.
What is January 20, 2026?
500
The Constitution created a national government with these three interdependent branches.
What are the legislative, executive, and judicial branches?
500
Complete the phrase, "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their powers from the _____ of the governed."
What is consent?
500
This French term, meaning “let do” or “let it be” in English, describes a form of capitalism in which the government takes a hands-off approach and allows businesses to operate with minimal regulation.
What is laissez-faire?
500
The CSPAN West Division includes these 14 U.S. States.
What are Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Alaska, and Hawaii?
