Responsibility of the Citizen
This civic duty requires eligible citizens to select representatives and decide ballot measures.
What is voting?
The First Amendment protects freedom of religion, press, assembly, and this right.
What is speech?
This branch, made up of the House of Representatives and Senate, writes federal laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
The chief executive of a state is usually called this.
What is the Governor?
This document, adopted in 1776, announced that the colonies were independent from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Citizens may be required to perform this duty, in which they help decide the facts of a court case.
What is jury duty?
The Second Amendment addresses the right to keep and bear these.
What are arms?
The president leads this branch, which carries out and enforces federal laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
This level of government commonly provides services such as police and fire protection, zoning, and garbage collection.
What is local government?
The first U.S. president, who set precedents such as serving only two terms, was this Virginia revolutionary leader.
Who was George Washington?
Paying this helps fund public services such as roads, schools, courts, and national defense.
What are taxes?
This amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures and generally requires warrants to be based on probable cause.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This branch interprets laws and includes the Supreme Court.
What is the Judicial Branch?
Counties are often governed by an elected body with a name such as a ___________.
What is a county board/commission?
This 1787 agreement created a Congress with a House based on population and a Senate with equal state representation.
What is the Great Compromise?
The First Amendment protects a citizen’s right to contact officials or organize for this purpose.
What is petitioning the government?
The Fifth Amendment protects a person from being tried twice for the same crime, a principle called this.
What is double jeopardy?
The Constitution gives this body the power to convict a president of impeachable crimes, approve treaties, and confirm presidential appointments.
What is the Senate?
Under this principle, powers are divided between the national government and the governments of the states.
What is Federalism?
This series of essays, written by figures including Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, argued for ratification of the Constitution.
What are The Federalist Papers?
This civic obligation requires many men ages 18–25 to register so the government could conduct a military draft if Congress authorized one.
What is Selective Service Registration?
This amendment reserves powers not delegated to the federal government to the states or to the people.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
When the president rejects a bill passed by Congress, Congress may still enact it with a two-thirds vote in both chambers through this process.
What is overriding a presidential veto?
A form of local democracy in which citizens elect representatives to serve different wards of a town or city and vote on issues in discussion with the mayor, often a member themselves.
What is a city council?
This Supreme Court decision established the principle that federal courts may declare laws unconstitutional, strengthening judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?