General Questions
Meaning of an amendment to the Constitution.
What is a change to the Constitution approved by the states and Congress?
1st Amendment.
What is grants rights to religion, speech, press, assembly, petition?
20th Amendment.
What is states the term of the president will begin on January 20th?
15th Amendment.
What is states that the right of citizens to vote will not be denied based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude?
4th Amendment.
What is protection from unreasonable search and seizures?
Reason the 1st amendment is important.
What is it gives us the right to speak and write what we want?
5th Amendment.
What is right to a grand jury, no double jeopardy, right to not self-incriminate, and right to due process?
10th Amendment.
What is rights reserved to states?
23rd Amendment.
What is allowed electors from the District of Columbia?
3rd Amendment.
What is prevention of quartering of soldiers?
Process through which amendments are removed.
What is amendments can only be removed by ratification of other amendments?
18th Amendment.
What is prohibition of the production, sale, and transportation of alcohol?
16th Amendment.
What is gives Congress the power to tax incomes?
2nd Amendment.
What is the right to bear arms?
8th Amendment.
What is protections against excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment?
"Father of the Constitution"
Who is James Madison?
13th Amendment.
What is abolition of slavery and involuntary servitude?
6th Amendment.
What is the rights of those accused in criminal prosecutions, rights to jury trial, to confront opposing witnesses and to counsel?
19th Amendment.
What is states that the right of citizens to vote will not be denied on account of gender?
26th Amendment.
What is lowered the voting age to 18?
Importance of the 1st amendment.
What is it protects the expression of our individual values?
14th Amendment.
What is states that all people born on U.S. territory or naturalized are citizens?
25th Amendment.
What is states that in the event that the president becomes unable to lead, the vice president will do so?
24th Amendment.
What is states that the right of citizens to vote shall not be denied on the basis of failure to pay a poll tax?
7th Amendment.
What is the right to a trial by jury?