Constitutional Government
What are the first 10 Amendments called?
Bill of Rights
The president (who enforces laws) is the head of this branch of government.
What is the Executive Branch?
Freedom of speech, the press, religion, petition, and peacefully assemble are the rights in the Amendment.
What is the First Amendment?
The two dominating political parties.
What are Republican and Democratic?
He was the King of England during the Revolutionary War.
Who is King George?
What are the first 3 words of the Constitution?
"We the People"
The Supreme Court (which decides if laws are fair or constitutional) is the head of this branch of government.
What is the Judicial Branch?
What are the first 10 amendments called?
(Do you know how many Amendments there are currently?)
Bill of Rights
(27)
The purpose of political parties in the United States government.
What is to choose candidates for election that share similar ideas and goals for the country?
It is the continent that we currently live on.
What is North America?
When and where was the Constitution written?
1787 in Philedelphia
Congress, which makes laws, is the head of this branch of government
(Can you name the two bodies of Congress??)
What is the Legislative Branch?
This Amendment protect citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
A way of governing that depends on the will of the people.
What is democracy?
These are the countries that boarder the United States - north and south.
What are Canada and Mexico?
What is that the Constitution itself did not clearly define citizen's rights.
Why were Amendments added to the Constitution?
The three branches of government kept separate and have checks on each other.
What is to stop one branch from having all of the power?
Rarely used, this Amendment was last used in 1982 by New York prison guards.
What is the Third Amendment?
(preventing military from taking over home to house soldiers)
This Act or law took away legal barriers preventing African Americans from exercising their right to vote.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
These are the three ways government can ask you to serve your country.
What are
1. on jury
2. with a subpoena (testifying in court)
2. Selective Service (the draft to serve in the military)?
The introduction section of the Constitution is called this.
What is the preamble?
What are the 3 branches of government and what do they do?
What Amendment protects your rights in criminal cases?
The 5th Amendment.
"I plea the 5th!"
This amendment made it so all men, black and white could vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
What is the amount of the GED that is on Civics and Government?
50%