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Article I
President/Vice President
Judicial Branch
Bill of Rights
Other Amendments
100
unlimited debate in the Senate
What are filibusters?
100
provides the exact wording of the oath taken by the President
What is the Constitution? Article II, Section 1
100
Article that provided for a national legal system.
What is the Article III of the Constitution?
100
"Congress shall make no law ....abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press."
What is the First Amendment?
100
Gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
200
Votes in the Senate to break a tie
Who is the vice-president?
200
provides that when the vice presidency is vacant, the President can appoint a new vice president subject to confirmation by a majority of the Senate and the House.
What is the 25th Amendment?
200
Can hold their offices for life or until they choose to retire
What are federal judges?
200
Protection against unreasonable search and seizure.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
200
provided for the prohibition of the production, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages.
What is the 18th Amendment?
300
protects anything members of Congress might say to uphold the right of Congress to engage freely in debate.
What is the "speech and debate" clause?
300
provided that the electors would vote separately for Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidates
What is the 12th Amendment?
300
Only Federal Court created by the Constitution.
What is the Supreme Court?
300
The right to an attorney, even at the government's expense if the defendant cannot afford to pay an attorney for himself.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
300
Prohibits the denial of the right of US citizens, eighteen years of age or older, to vote on account of age.
What is the 26th Amendment?
400
laws that are passed to make an action retroactively illegal after it has been carried out.
What are ex post facto laws?
400
Gives the President the right to make treaties, subject to the approval by a two-thirds vote of the Senate
What is Article II of the US Constitution?
400
review by the US Supreme Court of the constitutional validity of a legislative act
What is judicial review?
400
The right to keep and bear arms
What is The Second Amendment?
400
Limits the number of times that a person can be elected president: a person cannot be elected president more than twice, and a person who has served more than two years of a term to which someone else was elected cannot be elected more than once.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
500
Gives Congress the right to regulate commerce between states
What is the commerce clause?
500
An indirect veto of a legislative bill by the president by retaining the bill unsigned until it is too late for it to be dealt with during the legislative session.
What is a pocket veto?
500
Declares that the Constitution and the laws and treaties of the federal government rank highest.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
500
The right to a jury trial in a civil case.
What is the Seventh Amendment?
500
The Civil War Amendments
What are the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments?