Number of methods to formally amend the Constitution?
What is 4?
100
Right to bear arms
What is the 2nd Amendment?
200
A formal agreement between two or more sovereign states.
What is a treaty?
200
Age requirement for US Senator.
What is 30 years old?
200
Term length for Supreme Court Justice.
What is there is none/life?
200
Two ways formal amendments can be proposed.
What are Congress and national conventions?
200
Freedom of speech, religion, press, and right to assemble peacefully and petition the gov..
What is the 1st Amendment?
300
System of overlapping the powers of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches to permit each branch to check the actions of the others.
What is checks and balances?
300
2 powers of Congress.
What are collect taxes, borrow money, regulate commerce and interstate trade, make money, establish post offices, create lower federal courts, declare war, and make all necessary and proper laws?
300
Overall power of judicial branch.
What is interpret the laws/deem laws & actions unconstitutional?
300
Two ways formal amendments can be ratified?
What are state legislatures and state conventions?
300
You do not have to house soldiers during times of peace.
What is the 3rd Amendment?
400
Group of persons chosen in each State and DC every four years who make a formal selection of the President and Vice President.
What is the electoral college?
400
Vice President's role (2).
What is President of the Senate and becomes president if president dies?
400
Qualifications for US Supreme Court Justices.
What is there are no specific qualifications?
400
Main criticism of formal amendment process?
What is state legislature do not truly represent the people's ideas?
400
No unreasonable searches or seizures.
What is the 4th Amendment?
500
System of government in which a written constitution divides power between a central, or national, government and several regional governments.
What is federalism?
500
3 Qualifications to be United States President.
What are naturalized US citizen, 35 years old, and live in US for 14 years?
500
Name 2 state powers.
What are extradition, full faith and credit for other state's laws, create and enforce own laws, protect their citizens, and have a representative gov.?
500
Reason why proposed amendments are not sent to the President.
What is you're only changing the law not creating a new law?
500
All powers not given to the federal gov. are given to the states or the people.