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3 Branches
Checks and Balances
Bill of Rights
First Amendment
Grab Bag
100
These are the three branches of the government.
What are the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branches?
100
The House of Representatives can do this to the President if they have broken the law of the land.
What is impeach?
100
This is what Police need to search your home.
What is a warrant?
100
The First Amendment grants you the right to _____ assemble.
What is peaceably/peacefully?
100
While representation in the House of Representatives is based on population, in the Senate each State receives this number of Senators.
What is two?
200
This is the head of the Executive Branch?
Who is the President?
200
This is what the President can do if they do not approve of a law.
What is veto?
200
This is the Amendment that grants law abiding US Citizens the right to bear arms.
What is the Second Amendment?
200
This is the portion (or freedom) of the First Amendment that grants the freedom to burn the flag?
What is Freedom of Speech?
200
This is the Supreme Law of the Land.
What is the Constitution?
300
The number of Supreme Court Members.
What is 9?
300
Checks the Judicial Branch has all revolve around their ability to declare an act of the other two branches this.
What is Unconstitutional?
300
A Public Defender is called when the Sixth Amendment right to this is needed but cannot be afforded.
What is an attorney/lawyer?
300
Free speech does not give you the right to commit this in person or over social media.
What is harassment?
300
This paragraph describes the goals of the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
400
This branch of the government contains the Senate.
What is the legislative branch?
400
Only this branch can declare war, even though the President is Commander-in-Chief.
What is the Legislative Branch?
400
Torture is illegal because of this Amendment.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
400
This is intentionally hurting a person's reputation by printing false facts.
What is libel?
400
Best defined as future generations.
What is posterity?
500
This group meets in the chamber opposite of the Senate in the Capitol Building.
What is the House of Representatives?
500
This is a term for when a President excuses the crimes of an individual.
What is pardon?
500
This is a term that insures that everyone who is convicted of a crime must be treated the same and given the same procedures.
What is due process?
500
These are the two clauses present in the First Amendment regarding freedom of religion.
What are the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause?
500
A stain on our Constitution, this provision allowed slaves to be counted partially in population for the purpose of representation.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?