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Amendments 1-5
Amendments 6-10
Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Vocabulary 3
100
The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be interfered with.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
100
A fair and speedy trial for the accused is guaranteed in criminal cases.
What is the 6th Amendment?
100
A written plan of government.
What is the constitution?
100
An authority that acts on behalf of a group of people.
What is government?
100
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
The people are protected against search and seizure without a warrant.
What is the 4th Amendment?
200
A jury trial is provided for in civil suits exceeding $20.
What is the 7th Amendment?
200
A form of government in which all the people meet together at one place to make laws and decide what actions to take.
What is direct democracy?
200
A system of government in which the powers of government are divided between the national government and the state government.
What is federalsim?
200
A power shared by the federal government and the states.
What are concurrent powers?
300
No solider in time of peace shall be assigned to live in a private home without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war except in a lawful manner.
What is the 3rd Amendment?
300
All powers not given by the Constitution to the U.S. nor forbidden to the states are reserved to the states or to the people.
What is the 10th Amendment?
300
Powers of government are balanced among different branches so that each branch can check, or limit the power of the other branches.
What are checks and balances?
300
The basic rights to which all people are entitled as human beings.
What are human rights?
300
A form of government in which the people elect representatives to carry on the work of government for them
What is a representative democracy / republic
400
A grand jury is provided for in serious crimes. Persons are protected from being tried twice for the same offense, or from having to testify in criminal cases against themselves, or from being deprived of life, liberty, or property without lawful means.
What is the 5th Amendment?
400
Very high bail, stiff fines, or cruel punishment are forbidden.
What is 8th Amendment?
400
a power given to the federal government by the Constitution
What are delegated / enumerated powers?
400
government by the consent of the people
What is popular sovereignty?
400
a power set aside by the Constitution for the states or for the people
What are reserved powers?
500
Congress is forbidden to pass any law setting up a religion or interfering with religious freedom or with free speech or with the right of people to get together peacefully and petition the government to have their grievances looked into.
What is the 1st Amendment?
500
Just because certain rights of the people have been stated in the Constitution does not mean that they do not have still others not mentioned there.
What is the 9th Amendment?
500
an official count of the number of people in a country
What is a census?
500
The right to vote
What is suffrage?
500
consisting of two houses, as in a lawmaking body
What is bicameral?