Evaluating Political Candidates
The president is limited to 2 terms. How many years is each term?
What is 4 years?
What term refers to the right of women to vote, which was granted by the 19th Amendment in 1920?
Women's suffrage
What system of government divides powers between central and regional authorities?
Federalism
Finish the phrase:
We the People of the U.S.A in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish ____________,
WHAT IS JUSTICE!
What is the highest court in the United States?
The Supreme Court
At least how old do you have to be to be Representative?
What is 25 years old?
What amendment, ratified on February 3, 1870, prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude?
15th Amendment
What term is used to describe powers that the Constitution does not delegate to the national government and are thus held by the states and the people? Like the power to issue drivers' licenses.
Reserved Powers
Finish the phrase:
Insure domestic tranquility,
Provide for the __________ ___________
Promote the general ____________
What is common defense and welfare?
Which article of the United States Constitution describes the structure, functions, and processes of the judicial branch?
Article III
At least how old do you have to be to be a Senator?
What is 30 years old?
This amendment, ratified on July 9, 1868, ensures that all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens and are entitled to EQUAL PROTECTION of the laws.
14th Amendment
Which powers are shared between state and federal governments, including the ability to collect taxes and make laws?
Concurrent Powers
Finish the phrase:
And Secure the Blessings of ________ to ourselves and our ___________
Do Ordain and Establish this Constitution of the USA!
What is Liberty and Posterity?
What did Montesquieu believe the government should do to avoid tyranny?
What is separation of the powers?
Where must U.S. Senators and Representatives reside at the time of the election?
What is must reside in the state they wish to represent?
Which amendment, effective from January 23, 1964, eliminated the poll tax as a prerequisite for voting in federal elections?
24th Amendment
What level of government handles issues like police, water, building permits?
Local government
What does 'posterity' mean?
What does future generation mean?
The Magna Carta influenced the ideas of limited government and rule of law to the colonists.
What idea was influenced to the Colonists from the Mayflower Compact?
What is self-government?
One of the 3 requirements to be President is that you must have been a resident (live in) of the U.S. for 14 years.
What are the other two requirements? The age and born where?
What is 35 years old and a natural born citizen of the United States?
How did the passage of the Twenty-sixth Amendment affect the U.S. political process?
A Women were guaranteed the right to vote in all states.
B Citizens from 18-20 years of age were given the right to vote.
C Poll taxes were no longer permitted for voting in federal elections.
D The federal government took over the regulation of statewide elections.
B. Citizens from 18-20 years of age were given the right to vote
What are the three ways you can call Powers that are expressly listed/outlined in the U.S. Constitution and are powers of the federal government? Like the approval of presidential appointments and coining of money.
Delegated/Expressed/Enumerated
In the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution, what is the meaning of the phrase "We the people"?
A) The people express their will through political parties
B)The people express their will by directly creating laws.
C) Government receives taxes from the people and exists to support them.
D) Government receives it's power from the people and exists to serve them.
What is D) Government receives it's power from the people and exists to serve them?
2. The statement below is an excerpt from Magna Carta (1215).
“No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land.”
Which right was guaranteed in this excerpt from Magna Carta?
A. no taxation without representation
B. trial by jury
C. freedom of the press
D. freedom of religion
trial by jury?