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Amendments
Amendments
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100
What is states that US citizens have the right to bare arms?
Amendment 2
100
What Amendment is freedom of speech, religion, press, petition, and protest?
Amendment 1
100
You start a petition to have video games banned from stores.
Amendment 1
100

The branch of government having the power to make laws 

Legislative Branch

100

The branch of government having the power to interpret laws 

Judicial Branch

200

What amendment states" freedom from housing or quartering troops"

Amendment 3

200
What amendment is "people have the right to a fair trial"?
Amendment 5
200
The police pull you over and demand to search your car. They search every part of the car and take some of your personal items.
Amendment 4
200

The branch of government having the power to enforce  laws 

Executive Branch

200
A set of electors who are selected to elect a candidate to a particular office 

Electoral College

300
What amendment states that people have the right to a speedy trial?
Amendment 6
300
What amendment is "can not sure a persons property without a warrant"?
Amendment 4
300
A man is arrested for breaking into her friend's house and stealing something. She is sent to jail and told she won't be going to trail for at least 3 years.
Amendment 6
300

Three-fifths of the enumerated population of slaves would be counted for representation purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the U.S House of Representatives 

Three-fifths Compromise 

300

An uprising led by a former militia officer(Daniel Shay) which broke out in Western Massachusetts in 1786.Shay's followers protested the foreclosures of farms for debt and briefly succeeded in shutting down the court system.

Shays Rebellion

400
What amendment states that accused people can remain out of jail until their trail if they pay bail?
Amendment 8
400

What amendment states that people who have a disagreement over more than $2,000 can have a trial by jury?

Amendment 7

400
You are fined $5,000 for stealing a candy bar.
Amendment 8
400

Under this system, the state is divided into branches. Each with separate and independent powers and areas of responsibility so that no branch has more power than the other 

Checks and Balances 

400

American Revolutionary leader who signed the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution 

Roger Sherman 

500
What amendment states that people have rights outside of those stated in the Constitution?
Amendment 9
500
What amendment states that any powers not stated in the Constitution belong to state?
Amendment 10
500
Your neighbor looks in your mailbox to see what kind of mail you get. You decided to contact the police because it violates your right to privacy.
Amendment 9
500
A series of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution 

The Federalist Papers 

500

4th President of the United States; member of the Continental Congress who helped frame the Bill of Rights 

James Madison