Amendments
The first amendment
What is freedom of speech, expression, and religion?
Number of senate members
What is 100?
Branch that interprets laws
What is the judicial branch?
Writer of Enlightenment
Who is Montesquieu?
The study of the rights and duties of citizens
What is civics?
The fourth amendment
What is prohibiting unreasonable searches and seizures?
Number of house of representative members
What is 435?
Branch that makes laws
What is the legislative branch?
a writer of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The notion that power lies with the people
What is popular sovereignty?
The twelfth amendment
What is providing the procedure for electing president and vice president?
Number of Congress members
What is 535?
Branch that carries out laws
What is the executive branch?
A writer of the constitution
Who is james Madison?
movement that spread the idea that reason and science could improve society
What is enlightenment?
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is The 15th amendment?
Number of jurors on a jury
what is 12?
Branch that has the most power
What is each branch is equal?
Writer of Common Sense
Who is Thomas Paine
the first ten amendments to the US Constitution
What is bill of rights?
Prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States who are at least eighteen years old
What is the twenty sixth amendment?
Number of members in the judicial branch
What is nine?
System that makes sure each branch is equal
What is checks and balances?
Who signed the civil rights act of 1964 into place?
Who is Lyndon Johnson?
An article added to the Us Constitution
What is an amendment?