Founding Documents
This 1776 document asserts rights such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This amendment guarantees freedom of speech, religion, the press, assembly, and petition
What is the First Amendment?
This is a governmental system in which citizens elect representatives to decide issues.
What is a Republic?
This constitutional requirement ensures fundamental fairness in the legal and court system.
What is Due Process of Law?
This is the name for the law intended to govern the use of computers in e-commerce and the internet.
What is Cyberlaw?
This was a loose form of charter for a common government adopted by the thirteen colonies before the U.S. Constitution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This amendment protects the right of the people to keep and bear arm
What is the Second Amendment?
This branch of government has the power to create or make laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This amendment abolished slavery and negated earlier parts of the Constitution, like the 3/5ths compromise.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This characteristic of the internet makes exercising legal control over it nearly impossible.
What is decentralization?
These are the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
This amendment protects citizens against unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This branch of government is responsible for enforcing laws and includes the President.
What is the Executive Branch?
These are implied rights not explicitly listed in the Constitution, such as the right to privacy.
What are Peripheral Rights?
These are the two primary constitutional issues involved in the use of electronic communication.
What are Freedom of Speech and the Right of Privacy?
Under the Articles of Confederation, the 13 colonies were described as being almost like 13 separate what?
What are separate nations (or countries)
This amendment lowered the voting age for all elections to 18 in 1971.
What is the 26th Amendment?
This branch of government interprets laws and can declare a law unconstitutional
What is the Judicial Branch?
This 1966 Supreme Court case established that citizens must be informed of their basic arrest rights to prevent tyranny
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
In this case, the court stripped 1st Amendment protections from obscene material if it has no redeeming social importance
What is Roth v. United States?
This document is the highest law of the land and provides a workable framework for our federal government.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
These three English documents helped form the basis for the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
What are the Magna Carta, Petition of Right, and English Bill of Rights?
This system ensures no one branch becomes too powerful by giving each branch distinct powers to limit the others.
What is the System of Checks and Balances?
According to this amendment, powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved to the states or the people.
What is the 10th Amendment?
These are state laws that allow a court to hear a case involving a non-resident defendant if they had sufficient contact with the state.
What are long-arm statutes?