Declaration
The main author of the Declaration of Independence
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
The number of branches of government laid out in the Articles of Confederation?
What is one?
This amendment protects the right to bear arms.
What is the 2nd amendment?
These are the branches of our federal government according to the US Constitution
What are the executive, legislative, and judicial branches?
Amendment 13 was ratified in 1865 and made this illegal.
What is slavery?
This king had charges of tyranny laid upon him by the Declaration of Independence
Who is George III?
The number of representatives per state according to the Articles of Confederation
What is two to seven?
This amendment protects the freedom of speech.
What is the first amendment?
The term length for a senator
What is six years?
Amendment 18 was repealed thirteen years after it was ratified, allowing once again the people to do this.
What is manufacture, buy and sell intoxicating liquor?
These truths are held to be self-evident in the Declaration of Independence
What are All men are created equal and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights?
Unlike in the US Constitution, the states had the power to do this in the Articles of Confederation
What is coin money?
This amendment protects the right to remain silent.
What is the 5th amendment?
These are the powers of the Legislative Branch (you must name two)
What is making laws, declaring war, impeaching the president, and giving consent of judicial nominees?
Amendment 22 limited the presidential terms to two after this president had won his 4th election.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The purpose of the government according to the writers of the Declaration of Independence
What is to protect the rights of the people?
This "nation" would be admitted into and entitled to all the advantages of the Union if they agreed to the confederation.
What is Canada?
This amendment protects the people from unreasonable search and seizure.
What is the fourth amendment?
These are the powers of the Executive Branch
What is vetoing bills and nominating justices for the supreme court?
This amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920.
What is Amendment 19?
This word completes this phrase in the Declaration of Independence: But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their ________, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.
What is Duty?
This man chaired the committee of men, including Samuel Adams, that wrote the Articles of Confederation in 1776.
This amendment protects against excessive fines and punishment.
What is the eighth amendment?
These are the three qualifications for the US president
What is he must be a natural-born citizen, 35 years of age, and 14 years as a US resident?
This event may have motivated the writing and ratification of the 26th amendment in 1971 which moved the voting age from 21 to 18.
What is the military draft for the Vietnam war?