What is the 1st amendment?
Freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.
What percentage of the constitution is Article l?
50%
What is Article ll about?
The Presidency (ex: term, qualification, duties, and powers)
What is Article V about?
How the constitution may be amended (proposed by 2/3 both houses or states; ratified by 3/4 states.)
What is the 2nd amendment?
The right to own and bear arms.
What is the 3rd amendment?
Quartering of Soldiers.
Bicameralism.
What is Article lll about?
The creation of the judicial system and the supreme court. (ex: qualifications, jurisdictions, powers) Also establishes trial by jury.
What is Article Vl about?
What is the 4th amendment?
Protection of citizens against illegal search and seizure of private property.
What is the 5th amendment?
Freedom from self-incrimination, double jeopardy, right to due process.
What is disscussed in Sections 2 and 3 of Article l?
House and Senate Details.
What is Article lV about?
The sanctity of the individual states: full faith and credit clause; rights of citizens, relationship between the states, admission of new states, and protection from the government.
What is Article Vlll about?
Original requirements for ratification (9 states)
What is the 6th amendment?
Criminal trials: right to a speedy trial with witnesses, right to a lawyer.
What is the 7th amendment?
Right to trial by jury in a civil case.
What is discussed in Section 7 of Article 1?
How a bill becomes a law.
How does the Judicial branch and Executive branch work together?
How many states were originally required for ratification? (seen in Article Vll)
9 states.
What is the 8th amendment?
Protection against excessive fines, cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the 9th amendment?
Constitution is not an exclusive list of rights.
Section 8 and 9 of Article l both discuss two different types of powers what are they?
Sect. 8: Enumerated (expressed) Powers. (also includes commerce clause and elastic clause)
Sect. 9: Denied Powers
What is the full faith and credit clause?
State courts have to respect the laws and judgments of courts from other states.
What is the supremacy clause in simple terms?
(Answers may vary) The Constitution takes priority over any state laws.
What is the 10th amendment?
States retain all privileges not given to the Federal Government.