Branches of Government
Spreading out the power of the federal government is the reason we have three branches of government.
What is separation of powers?
The Bill of Rights includes these Amendments.
What are the first ten Amendments?
These three Amendments are referred to the Reconstruction Amendments because they were passed and ratified in the period immediately following the American Civil War.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
This is the time period that followed Reconstruction and spanned from about 1890-1920.
What is the Progressive Era?
This concept refers to the system of shared and specific powers across several levels of government; federal, state, and local!
What is federalism?
This branch of government is responsible for enforcing the law and is best represented by the President at the Federal level.
What is the executive branch?
This Amendment within the Bill of Rights includes the five foundational freedoms we sometimes have referred to as PRAPS.
What is the 1st Amendment?
In addition to provisions addressing the insurrection which caused the Civil War, this was the 14th Amendments main function.
What is birth right citizenship?
This Progressive Era Amendment gave women the right to vote!
What is the 19th Amendment?
These types of powers are the powers written in the US Constitution that only the Federal government holds.
What are the express or implied powers?
What is the Supreme Court?
This Bill of Rights Amendment includes five different protections that relate to the time between between arrest and trial such as the right of due process and protection against self-incrimination.
What is the 5th Amendment?
These two clause are included in the 14th Amendment and ensure that all citizens of the United States are afforded equal application of the law and the proper procedure should liberty, freedom, or property be taken away by the government.
What are the Equal Protection Clause and the Due Process Clause?
This Progressive Era Amendment allowed Americans to vote directly for their Senators for the first time in history.
What is the 17th Amendment?
Both the Federal and State levels of government are able to exercise these types of powers.
What are concurrent or shared powers?
This concept provides equal powers to all the branches of government and each branch can counteract or cancel out another branch of government.
What is the system of checks and balances?
This group wanted the inclusion of the Bill of Rights in the US Constitution to protect individuals from a powerful Federal government.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
This Amendment abolished the institution of slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
These four Amendments make up the Progressive Era Amendments.
What are the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments?
This Bill of Rights Amendment forms the basis of federalism in the United States.
What is the 10th Amendment?
The legislative branch, Congress at the Federal level, is responsible for doing this.
This Bill of Rights Amendment provides protections related to the process of searches and seizures.
This Amendment provided the right to vote to all men regardless of color, race, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This Progressive Era Amendment prohibited or outlawed the production and sale of alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
These types of powers are left to only the states as they are not listed in the US Constitution.
What are the Reserved Powers?