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Amendments
Vocabulary
Misc
100
No poll tax
What is the 24th amendment?
100
A detailed written plan for government
What is the Constitution?
100
The committee was headed by him when they decided the government will have 2 houses.
Who is Roger Sherman?
200
Abolition of slavery
What is the 13th amendment?
200
A group of people named by each sate legislature to select the president and vice president
What is Electoral College?
200
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
Right to vote at age 18.
What is the 26th amendment?
300
A system in which each branch of government is able to check, or restrain, the power of others.
What is checks and balances?
300
This was the year the Constition took effect?
What is 1788?
400
Due process, double jeopardy, self-incrimination
What is the 5th amendment?
400
Power shared by the sates and federal government.
What is concurrent powers?
500
Lawsuits against a state.
What is the 11th amendment?
500
A clause stating that the Constitution and other laws and treaties made by the national government are "the supreme Law of the land."
What is supremacy clause?