Foundations of Government
A system where the people rule through elected representatives.
What is a republic?
Name the two houses of Congress.
What are the Senate and House of Representatives?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
A person born in the U.S. is this.
What is a citizen?
Type of law involving disputes between individuals.
What is civil law?
The Enlightenment thinker who believed in natural rights: life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
Name the levels of the federal court system.
What are the district court, appellate court, and supreme court?
The introduction to the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
The process of becoming a citizen.
What is naturalization?
A serious crime like murder or robbery.
What is a felony?
The document that established the first U.S. government after independence.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This principle allows the Judicial Branch to declare actions of the other branches unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
The number of amendments in the Constitution.
What is 27?
Civic duty that requires citizens to serve if called.
What is jury duty?
A minor breaking the law is handled in this system.
What is juvenile justice?
A government that has total control over all aspects of life.
What is a dictatorship?
This is the only court specifically created by the Constitution.
What is the Supreme Court?
The system that prevents one branch from becoming too powerful.
What is checks and balances?
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
A law that applies to everyone equally.
What is the rule of law?
The idea that the government's power comes from the people. (one of the 7 principles of the Constitution)
What is popular sovereignty?
Congress can check the President and Supreme Court by doing this.
What is impeachment / removing officials from office?
The clause that allows Congress to make laws it needs to carry out its powers.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause / Elastic Clause?
The five freedoms protected by the First Amendment.
What are speech, religion, press, assembly, petition?
The principle that someone is innocent until proven guilty.
What is due process?