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Articles IV
Articles V, VI, VII
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Branch of government that carries out the laws.
What is executive?
100
Group of amendments that protects specific citizens' rights.
What are amendments 1, 2, and 3?
100
Number of amendment allowing the right to own weapons.
What is 2?
100
Institution that establishes rules for statehood of territories.
What is Congress?
100
Term for approving the Constitution.
What is ratify or ratification?
200
Branch of government that interprets the laws.
What is judicial?
200
Group of amendments that protects the rights of accused persons.
What are amendments 4 through 8?
200
Year Bill of Rights was passed.
What is 1791?
200
Form of government guaranteed to all states.
What is Republican?
200
Number of states needed originally to approve the Constitution.
What is 9?
300
System allowing one branch of government to have authority over another and vice versa.
What are checks and balances?
300
Term meaning one cannot be retried for a crime of which he or she was found not guilty.
What is double jeopardy?
300
Amendment that requires reasonable punishment for crimes.
What is 8?
300
People referred to as persons of service and labour in section of Constitution now stricken out.
Who are slaves?
300
A change to the Constitution.
What is an amendment?
400
System of dividing and sharing of federal and state powers.
What is federalism?
400
Phrase referring to the prospect that the government may take one's property and compensate for it to benefit the greater society.
What is eminent domain?
400
Amendment requiring a warrant to search personal property.
What is 4?
400
Each state's records, acts, and court proceedings are respected by others with full faith and...
What is credit?
400
Current number of states needed to change the Constitution.
What is 38?
500
Terms for federal, state, and shared powers.
What are delegated, reserved, and concurrent?
500
Amendment that separates church from state.
What is 1?
500
Amendments that ultimately protect the rights of people and the states.
What are 9 and 10?
500
Term meaning states will send back to another state those who break state laws.
What is extradition?
500
Phrase indicating that federal laws override all other laws.
What is supremacy clause?