Overview of the Constitution
What is the Preamble of the Constitution?
How many amendment have been added to the constitution?
What is 27 amendments?
What is a system of government in which a written constitution divides the powers of the government on a territorial basis between a central government and several regional governments?
What is federalism?
What is another term for republican form of government?
What is a representative government?
Who wrote the Virginia declaration of rights?
Who is George Mason?
How old is the constitution?
What is 200 years old?
The first 10 Amendments are known as the?
What are the Bill of Rights?
What is the concept of having granted powers?
What is delegated powers?
Which branch of government is the only one allowed to admit a new state into the union?
What is legislative branch/Congress?
What natural rights did the Virginia Declaration of Rights guarantee?
What are life and liberty?
What is article V (5) of the Constitution?
Which founding father refused the ratify the new constitution if it did not include a Bill of Rights?
What are the 3 delegated powers?
What are Expressed, Implied, and Inherent Powers?
What condition did congress place on Utah before admitting them to the Union?
What is Utah had to get rid of polygamy?
How was the IX right in the Virginia declaration of rights similar to the 8th amendment?
What is there will be no cruel and unusual punishment?
What are the 6 basic principles of the Constitution?
What are Checks and balances, popular sovereignty, limited government, separation of powers, Judicial Review, Federalism?
Which amendment guarantees due process of the law?
What is the 5th Amendment?
Which amendment reserves rights to states not mention in the constitution?
What is the 10th Amendment?
What are the three main types of federal grants to states?
What are Block, Categorical and Project grants?
What concept of government was Mason writing about in Article 3 of the Virginia Declaration of rights?
What is consent of the governed through popular sovereignty?
The concept in which powers of the national government are shared among the executive, judicial and legislative and no branch can have more power than the other is known as?
What is checks and balances?
What 5 freedoms are guaranteed by the 1st Amendment?
What are freedom of religion, speech, press, assemble and petition the government?
Power that can only be exercised by the National government and cannot be exercised by any state is known as?
What are exclusive powers?
What is the process of removing one criminal from one state to another?
What is extradition?
Who was a neighbor of George Mason in Virginia?
Who is George Washington?