Amendments
US Government
Documents
Vocabulary
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100

This amendment deals with freedom of speech.

What is the 1st amendment?

100

The constitution added this to the US government

What is the Executive and Judicial Branch?

100

This document stated all the wrong doings of the British King

What is the Declaration of Independence?

100

A change to the constitution 

What is an amendment?

100

The 3/5 Compromise gave this person part of a vote

What is a slave?

200

This is part of the 4th amendment.

What is search and seizure?

200

This branch enforces laws

What is the executive branch?

200

This document set rules and procedures for the US government

What is the US Constitution? 

200

Supreme court can declare laws/actions unconstitutional

What is judicial review?

200

This person said people have a right to rebel if their life, liberty, and property are threatened

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

300

The right to bear arms is apart of the...

What is the 2nd Amendment?

300

These 3 terms best describe the US Government

Democrat, Federal, and Republic.

300

This is apart of the constitution that guarantees rights for individuals

What is the Bill of Rights?

300

This is a word for the "rule of the people"

What is popular sovereignty?

300

This was the main reason colonists were angry about taxes

What is taxation without representation?

400

What amendment gives right to a double jeopardy?

What is the 5th Amendment?

400

This level of government only has powers that were expressed in the Constitution 

Federal

400

This document was what led to the Constitution and it had many weaknesses

What is the Articles of Confederation?

400

Congress has rights to make laws if they are necessary/proper

What is elastic clause?

400

This gives reporters some protection about information/sources in state courts

What is shield laws?

500

The 3rd Amendment does not allow this

What is quartering of soldiers in homes? 

500

This branch has the right to declare laws unconstitutional 

What is the Judicial Branch?

500

These documents were written so Americans would support the Constitution. 

What is the Federalist Papers and/or Common Sense.

500

The United States "shall be the supreme law of the land"

What is the supremacy clause?

500

To ratify an amendment, you must have this amount of a vote.

What is a 3/4 vote?