The current President of the United States.
Who is Donald Trump?
This chamber of Congress has 435 members.
What is the House of Representatives?
This is the highest law of the land.
What is the Constitution?
This chamber of Congress has 100 members.
What is the Senate?
He is the Vice-President of the United States.
Who is Mike Pence?
The President leads the military and has this title.
What is Commander-in-Chief?
This is how many justices sit on the Supreme Court.
What is nine?
This is like the introduction paragraph of the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
This is the highest court in the nation.
What is the Supreme Court?
What fraction of the vote do both the Senate and the House need to ratify an amendment?
What is 2/3?
These prevent any one branch of the government from becoming too powerful.
What are checks and balances?
This is the branch of the government that includes the Supreme Court.
What is the judicial branch?
This is how many amendments are currently in the Constitution.
What is 27?
This is the branch of the government that includes Congress.
What is the legislative branch?
This is the branch of the government that includes the President, Vice-President and the cabinet.
What is the executive branch?
What fraction of the states need to ratify an amendment for it to become law?
What is 3/4?
This amendment states that people have the right to keep a weapon and to use it to protect themselves.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
This amendment states that the government cannot arrest a person or search their property unless there is "probable cause" that a crime has been committed.
What is the 4th Amendment?
This amendment was ratified in 1865, during the administration of Abraham Lincoln just before his assassination, ending slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This amendment was ratified in 1920, during the administration of Woodrow Wilson, guaranteeing women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This amendment was ratified in 1964, during the administration of Lyndon Johnson, making it illegal to make anyone pay a tax to have the right to vote.
What is the 24th Amendment?
This amendment was ratified in 1933, during the administration of FDR, repealing Prohibition, the ban on alcohol that had been in force since 1920 under the 18th Amendment.
What is the 21st Amendment?
This amendment was ratified in 1971, during the administration of Richard Nixon, giving 18-year-olds the right to vote.
What is the 26th Amendment?
This amendment was ratified in 1870, during the administration of Ulysses Grant, stating that a citizen's right to vote cannot be taken away because of race, the color of their skin, or because they were previously slaves.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This amendment was ratified in 1868, during the administration of Andrew Johnson, stating that every person born in the US is a citizen.
What is the 14th Amendment?