Amendments
This is the definition of Amendment
What is a change, edit, alteration, fix, etc.
This is what Articles I, II, and III each establish.
Article I: Legislative Branch
A2: Executive
A3: Judicial
"We the people"
This quote is the beginning of this document.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
This is the idea that each branch of government should have its own distinct powers.
What is Separation of Powers?
What is desegregation/integration?
Which Amendment made slavery illegal in the United States?
What is the 13th Amendment?
This is usually the final step in the lawmaking process.
What is Presidential/Executive Approval?
This was the main contribution of the Athenians (Greeks) to US Government.
What is Democracy?
This is who is most limited by a Constitution?
What is the government?
The case Mapp v. Ohio mostly relied on this amendment
What is the Fourth Amendment?
What is due process, double jeopardy, eminent domain, freedom from self incrimination
These are the minimum age requirements to be in the House, Senate, and Presidency. (You must say each)
What is H25, S30, P35?
This document was an agreement between the King of England and his subjects, and was the first written document saying that the king was not above the law. (1215)
What is the Magna Carta?
James Madison describes this principle in Federalist 51, when he says that "Ambition must be made to check Ambition."
What is Checks and Balances?
In Engel v. Vitale, school prayer was ruled a violation of this part of the First Amendment
What is the religious establishment clause of the First Amendment?
The First Amendment protects these five rights
What is freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and to petition the government.
RAPPS
Found in Article VI, this clause tells us which law will be most powerful in the United States.
What is the Supremacy Clause/Constitutional Supremacy
This was the purpose of the Federalist Papers
What is to persuade the American public to ratify the Constitution?
What is to defend the Constitution to the American public?
This is one way that the Executive Branch checks the Legislative Branch
What is Veto power, Commander in chief power, etc.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This amendment says that STATES must protect the life, liberty, and property of citizens. States must guarantee Due Process of all citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This clause of Article I gives Congress the power to make any law as long as it is reasonably connected to one of its enumerated powers.
What is the necessary and proper clause/elastic clause?
This document was the first constitution signed in the new world, and said that the people would come together to form a civil body politic.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This is one way that the Legislative Branch checks the power of the Executive Branch.
What is impeachment/investigation, power of the purse, etc.
This is the relationship between Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board.
Plessy approved/allowed segregation, Brown overturned it.