Amendments
This is the amendment that guarantees the right to bear arms.
What is the Second Amendment?
Federalism is the division of power between these entities.
What are national and state governments?
This branch of government is responsible for interpreting the laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
This is what the 13th Amendment accomplished.
What is abolishing slavery?
These are the rights protected under the first amendment.
What are freedom of speech, freedom to protest, and freedom of religion?
This is the purpose of the Fourth Amendment.
What is to protect against unreasonable searches and seizures?
This type of federalism involves clear divisions of power between the state and federal government and favors the power of state government.
What is dual federalism?
This person has the power to veto a bill passed by Congress.
Who is the President (Joe Biden/ Executive Branch)?
This is the time after Presidential Reconstruction focused on enforcing the 13th, 14th and 15th amendment in the South to ensure greater equality for formerly enslaved people.
What is Radical Reconstruction?
This is how the Voting Rights Act of 1965 supported the 15th Amendment.
What is eliminating discriminatory voting practices and enforcing the voting rights of African Americans?
This amendment addresses powers reserved to the states?
What is the Tenth Amendment?
This is how cooperative federalism differs from dual federalism.
It allows the national (federal government) and state government to work together and favors the power of the national government.
This is the role the legislative branch plays in checks and balances.
What is overriding a presidential veto with a two-thirds majority in both houses?
This is what the 15th amendment called for which wasn't enforced in the South between 1877 and 1965.
What is granting African American men the right to vote?
This is the Constitutional Principle and idea that the power of the government comes from the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
This amendment ensures that individuals cannot be forced to testify against themselves in criminal cases (no self-incrimination).
What is the Fifth Amendment?
These events AND president shifted power to the federal government and ushered in Cooperative Federalism.
What are the Great Depression and New Deal? Who is FDR?
This is how the judicial branch can check the powers of the legislative branch.
What is declaring laws unconstitutional through judicial review
This is how white southerners restricted the rights guaranteed to black Americans under the 15th amendment.
What are discriminatory practices like literacy tests and poll taxes (to restrict voting rights)?
This is HOW the Bill of Rights helped satisfy the Anti-Federalists, convincing them to ratify the Constitution.
What is ensuring protections of individual freedoms from government overreach (Civil Liberties)?
This Reconstruction amendment ensured equal protection under the law for all citizens, particularly newly freed slaves.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This is how the concepts of dual federalism and cooperative federalism align with conservative and liberal ideologies.
What is conservatives often supporting dual federalism for limited federal intervention, while liberals favor cooperative federalism for greater federal involvement in state affairs?
This is the purpose of separation of powers in the U.S. government.
What is to prevent any one branch from gaining too much power by dividing governmental responsibilities?
This is what the 14th Amendment sought to accomplish.
What is extending citizenship and equal protection to formerly enslaved people, laying the foundation for future civil rights advancements?
These are the potential constitutional violations that could arise from the use of facial recognition technology in policing. Your answer should include the Amendment and the corresponding right being violated.
What are potential violations of the Fourth Amendment (unreasonable searches) and the Fourteenth Amendment (equal protection, due to biases)