Amendments 1
This Amendment protects the people's right to keep and bear arms.
What is the 2nd.
This Amendment allows for freedom of speech, the press, religion, and gatherings that are peaceful.
What is the 1st?
This branch of government includes the President and his cabinet.
What is the Executive Branch?
This document created a government that was so weak it could not even properly fund itself or defend the people.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This was the year the Constitution was written (exactly 200 years before Mr. Brose was born!)
What is 1787?
This Amendment bans the government from forcing people to house soldiers against their will.
What is the 3rd?
This Amendment protects the people from self incrimination by making it illegal to force them to testify against themselves.
What is the 5th?
This branch of government includes the House of Representatives, the Senate and their associated offices/committees.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This city held the Constitutional Convention; where the Constitution was written and adopted.
What is Philadelphia?
Alexander Hamilton was the first US treasurer and oversaw the creation of this institution; which allows states and people to take loans out from the government.
What is the National Bank?
This amendment protects people accused of crimes against cruel and unusual punishment and excessive bail.
What is the 8th?
This Amendment does not allow the government to search your property without a warrant.
What is the 4th?
This member of the Executive Branch has only two major roles: to cast the tie breaking vote in the Senate and to SURVIVE.
Who is the Vice President?
This person was unanimously elected by his fellow delegates to oversee and moderate the Constitutional Convention.
Who is George Washington?
This first Vice President was often times left out of meetings with the executive branch and lamented that his station was basically powerless.
Who is John Adams
This amendment guarantees the right to a speedy trial with a jury and representation by a lawyer.
What is the 6th?
This Amendment states that a civil trial may include a jury if the amount in question is $20 or more.
What is the 7th?
Each state gets two senators; but they get a number of House Representatives based on this factor.
What is state population?
This man is credited with writing the Constitution and is often referred to as its father.
Who is James Madison?
This clause in the Constitution (which has since been removed) stated that one slave was worth 60% of a white man population wise for representative reasons.
What is the 3/5 clause?
This Amendment states that any rights not addressed in the Constitution are reserved for the people.
What is the 9th?
This amendment states that all of the rights belong to all of the people.
What is the 10th?
The President is not elected by a direct popular vote; but by THIS institution which uses special officials called electors who represent their districts.
What is the Electoral College?
This political ideal grants state and local governments powers that the federal government does not have.
What is Dual Sovreigntiy?
The first Ten Amendments are collectively known as this.
What is the Bill of Rights?