Background
The country the United States had to fight for independence.
What is Great Britain?
The number of branches of government in the United States.
What is three?
The 22nd Amendment limits the President to this many terms.
What is two?
The 1st Amendment guarantees freedom of the press, religion, petition, assembly, and this.
What is speech?
This compromise gave us the Senate and the House of Representatives.
What is the Great Compromise?
The number of colonies at the time of the Constitutional Convention.
What are thirteen?
The branch of government responsible for writing laws.
What is the legislative?
The 26th Amendment lowered the voting age to this.
What is 18?
The reason for the 3rd Amendment, which states "No soldier shall... be quartered in a house."
What is the British forced colonists to house troops?
The city where the Constitutional Convention was held.
What is Philadelphia?
The branch of government responsible for interpreting the laws and deciding if they are constitutional.
What is the judicial?
The amendment that gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Per the 4th Amendment, law enforcement need this to search your home.
What is a warrant?
What is the census?
The United States' first version of a written Constitution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The branch of government responsible for enforcing the laws.
The 18th Amendment, commonly referred to as this, was the only amendment to be repealed.
What is prohibition?
The 8th Amendment ensures that inmates are treated humanely, thanks to this phrase.
What is cruel and unusual punishment?
The President is not chosen by popular vote, but rather by this.
What is the Electoral College?
The weakness of the Articles of Confederation that Shays' Rebellion highlighted.
What is the federal government's lack of an army?
The name for the system of ensuring equal power among the branches of government.
The number of states needed to approve a proposed amendments.
What is 38, or 3/4?
Founder known as the "Father of the Bill of Rights" because he drafted them.
Who is James Madison?
The minimum age to be President.
What is 35?