Bill of Rights
The right of the people to keep and bear arms.
This branch of government is responsible for interpreting the laws.
What is the judicial branch?
The number of Amendments in the Bill of Rights.
What is 10?
The clauses in this theme prevent the government from becoming too powerful or tyrannical.
What is Limited Government?
What is Common Sense?
This Amendment ensures due process.
What is the 5th Amendment?
This level and branch of government has the ability to declare war.
What is the federal legislative (Congress)?
The number of Supreme Court Justices
What is 9?
The Constitution attempts to prevent any one person or part of the government from gaining too much power by including ways for each branch of government to limit the others.
What are Checks & Balances?
This agreement allowed states to count their enslaved population as a fraction of a person for representation purposes
What is the 3/5 compromise?
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
What is the 10th Amendment?
This branch of government has the "power of the purse."
What is the legislative branch?
The number of Senators each state gets.
The Constitution does not comprehensively address every aspect of government, thus the Supreme Court established the power to review laws in 1803.
What is a Framework Open to Interpretation?
This 1676 revolt against rich white landowners helped to codify race as a social construct
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
What is the 9th Amendment?
This person leads the New York State executive branch.
Who is Kathy Hochul?
The number of years a Senator serves
What is 6?
The Constitution assigns different roles to the different branches to prevent any one person or part of the government from gaining too much power.
What are the Separation of Powers?
This failed 1781 government framework established a weak central government that lacked the ability to tax or enforce foreign policy
What are the Articles of Confederation?
These are the 5 freedoms enumerated in the 1st Amendment.
What are freedom of religion, speech, press, peaceful assembly, and petition the government?
Other than the President and VP, these 2 things are also part of the Federal Executive branch.
What are the Cabinet and Federal Agencies/Departments?
This war, named after its duration, led to colonist resentment over new taxes to pay off war debt, and prompted restrictive British policies that limited westward expansion.
What is the Seven Years War?
The Constitution gives limited power to the people, so that the government will be representative of the people’s wishes (but also insulated from the people’s whims.)
What is Limited Democracy?
This unpopular 1765 British law imposed a direct tax on the American colonies for various printed materials, aiming to help pay for the costs of the French and Indian War.
What is the Stamp Act?