Before the Constitution
The first Plan of Government
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Number of Amendments in the Bill of Rights
What is 10?
The main power of Congress with regards to the law
What is " make the laws"?
Branch that enforces the law.
What is the Executive Branch?
Freedoms listed in the 1st Amendment?
What is Freedom of speech, religion, the press, assembly, and to petition
Branch interprets the laws
What is the Supreme Court?
10th Amendment
What is Power to the States?
Which amendment gives women the right to vote?
What is the 19th?
Name 2 weaknesses of the AOC
What is could not levy taxes, settled domesticate disputed, or enforce laws. Had no judicial or executive branches.
The military is a branch of government (True/False)
False
The 3 parts of the Constitution
What is the Preamble, Articles, and Amendments?
Minimum age to be a member of the senate
What is 30?
Minimum age to be president
What is 35?
Their position is for life
What is the Supreme Court?
The 9th amendment
What is Power to the People?
Which amendment abolishes slavery
What is the 13th
What did the Declaration of Independence do?
What is declare independence from England/Great Britain?
Number of years of each Presidential election
What is 4 years?
What is ratify?
What is to approve or validate.
What are the Articles that define the 3 branches of government?
What are Articles I-III?
The total number of Amendments in the Constitution
What is 27?
What is Congress?
The 2 parts of the Legislative Branch is called
The 13th Amendment
What is abolishes slavery?
Which amendment bans unlawful searches and seizures
What is the 4th
Who wrote the Declaration of independence?
Who is Thomas Jefferson
Determines the number of representatives a state has in the House of Representatives
What is population?
What is the 3rd Amendment?
No Quartering of soldiers
A check of the Executive Branch to deny a bill/decision from the Legislative Branch from becoming law.
What is a veto?
Prohibits unreasonable searches of a person's property
What is the 4th Amendment?
This official can be born only in the U.S while other government officials can be born anywhere else in the world
Who is the President?
The 18th Amendment
What is Prohibition?
Has the power to impeach the president.
What is congress?
What was the year of the Constitutional Convention
What is 1787
Explains why the Constitution was written - sets goals.
What is the Preamble?
Who is the Head of State and Commander in Chief?
The President
What is check and balances?
No branch of government can be too powerful
Compromise between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists that finished the debate over the constitution?
What is the Bill of Rights?
The 5th Amendment
What is right to remain silent if being accused of a crime?
System of sharing of powers invented by Benjamin Franklin
What is Federalism?
Which amendment is the only amendment to repeal another amendment
What is the 21st?