Amendments
Name the Amendment: Quartering Troops
What is Amendment 3?
Which of the following is among the purposes of government outlined in the Preamble to the Constitution?
a. defending the nation against foreign enemies
b. insuring order and domestic tranquility
c. promoting the general welfare of the citizens
d. all of the above
What is the answer D?
A loose union of independent states.
What is a confederacy?
What is the Legislative Branch?
The Federalist papers were written to...
What is urging the ratification of the Constitution?
What amendment gave women the right to vote?
What is the 19th Amendmet?
The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution to meet the demands for whom?
What are Anti-Federalists?
What type of government has division of power between central and local governments and the central government has authority over the state and local governments?
What is Federalism?
Which branch contains the president, vice president, the Cabinet, executive departments, independent agencies, and other boards, commissions, and committees?
What is the Executive Branch?
Who was in favor of continuing the Articles of Confederation because they worried that the government would have too much power?
Who are Anti-Federalists?
What amendment prevents from unlawful search and seizure?
What is the 4th Amendment?
The Supremacy Clause states that which form of law stands ABOVE all other forms of law in the United States?
What is the U.S. Constitution?
The American Declaration of Independence announced that America was breaking from which European power?
What is Great Britain?
Concurrent powers are those that are...
a. exercised simultaneously by the National and the State governments.
b. exercised by State governments alone.
c. exercised by the National Government alone.
d. denied to both the National and the State governments.
What is the answer A?
Who is the "Father of the Constitution"?
Who is James Madison?
What amendment gave all men the right to vote regardless of race or color or whether they had been slaves.
What is the 15th amendment?
What best describes the general contents of the Constitution’s Articles?
What is the framework for the Constitution?
Who wrote the Spirit of Laws that promoted separation of powers?
Who is Montesquieu?
This is NOT an example of a congressional enumerated power.
a. to issue search warrants c. to establish post offices
b. to declare war d. to coin money
What is the answer A?
Who wrote 51 of the 85 Federalists papers?
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Which amendment repealed the 18th amendment?
What is the 21st amendment?
A document that serves as the fundamental law of the country.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
Who wrote Leviathan that argued for a strong centralized authority?
Who is Hobbes?
Which principle grants the president the authority to appoint federal judges?
What is the separation of powers?
Who was unhappy with parts but said that he, “doubted anyone could make a better Constitution.”?
Who is Benjamin Franklin?