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Don't Be Sad, Bill
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A Numbers Game
Potpourri
100
collectively, the first 10 Amendments are called this
What is the Bill of Rights?
100

laws first start out as proposals called _____

What are bills?

100

future generations

What is posterity?

100
the number of senators in the United States Senate
What is 100?
100
this group demanded that a Bill of Rights be added to the Constitution before they would ratify it
What is the Antifederalists?
200
two of the freedoms protected by the 1st Amendment
What is freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly?
200

bills are first discussed here in each house of Congress

What is in committee?

200
the well-being of all the citizens of a nation
What is general welfare?
200
the year the Constitution was written and became the supreme law of the land
What is 1787?
200
under our system of federalism, the power to conduct elections belongs to this
What is state governments?
300
the right to bear arms is protected by this amendment
What is the 2nd Amendment?
300

if a bill passes both houses of Congress, this is the next step

What is it is sent to the President?

300
to remove an individual from an elected position
What is impeach?
300
the number of justices on the United States Supreme Court
What is 9?
300
this branch has the power to impeach
What is the Legislative branch?
400
amendments 5-8 protect the rights of individuals in this situation
What is accused of a crime (on trial)?
400

Congress can _____ a president's veto

What is override?

400
to give evidence against - the 5th amendment protects individuals from doing this to themselves
What is incriminate?
400
how the number of votes each state gets in the electoral college is determined
What is adding the state's two senators and its number of representatives in the House of Representatives?
400
it is safe to say that he had the most lasting and greatest impact of any delegate to the Constitutional Convention
Who is James Madison?
500
the 10th Amendment states that all powers not specifically given to the federal government in the Constitution are reserved (given) to this
What is state governments?
500

the judicial branch has this check over laws passed by Congress

What is to declare laws unconstitutional?

500

the "naturalization process" is this

What is how an immigrant follows the procedure to become a citizen of the United States?

500
the number of members in the House of Representatives
What is 435?
500
this branch's only powers are checks
What is the Judicial branch?