A political group who supported the passage of the new Constitution and its stronger government.
What are Federalists?
100
A process that describes sending prisoners back to the state where the crime was comitted to have a trial.
What is extradition?
100
No illegal searches or seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
100
System designed to have the separate parts of the government watch over each other.
What are Checks and Balances?
100
Establishes a two term limit for the President.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
200
A political group who opposed the new Constitution and thought it lacked a specific list of people's rights.
What are the Anti-Federalist?
200
Describes the legal relationship between states.
What is the Full Faith and Credit Clause?
200
Right to use a jury in a lawsuit that is over $20.
What is the Seventh Amendment?
200
Powers that are shared by the different levels of the government.
What are Concurrent Powers?
200
Establishes the direct selection of Senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
300
An agreement made at the convention of 1787 that slaves would count as 3/5 a person for the census to determine the population of each state.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
300
Describes the process of being removed from office for illegal actions.
What is Impeachment?
300
No excessive bails and fines, and no cruel and unusual punishments.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
300
The right of the people to rule themselves by voting.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
300
Changes the beginning of Presidential and Congressional terms. Inauguration moved from March to January.
What is the 20th Amendment?
400
An agreement at the convention of 1787 that Congress would not tax exports and slave trading would be banned in 20 years.
What is the Slave Trade Compromise?
400
Going against your country.(The only crime defined in the constitution.)
What is Treason?
400
The Right to a speedy and public trial.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
400
Philosophy that the best government is one where the functions of governing are divided.
What is the Separation of Powers?
400
Abolishes the use of poll taxes in voting.
What is the 24th Amendment?
500
An agreement made at the Convention of 1787 that created a two house legislature with one house based on population and the other based on state equality.
What is the Great Compromise?
500
Powers given to the Congress, such as taxation, coin money, establishing the military, commerce, war, and borrowing money.
What are Enumerated Powers?
500
The rights of the accused such as due process, the right to remian silent, no double jeopardy, eminent domain, and a grand jury.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
500
System of two or more governments that operate together and share powers over citizens.(Federal, State, Local).
What is Federalism?
500
Gives the residents of Washington D.C. the right to vote in national elections.