The Amendments
This amendment protects the rights of Americans to own arms and weapons
What is the 2nd Amendment?
This is the house of Congress that is chosen by selecting two individuals from each state
What is the Senate?
This number is the total number of years in a presidential term.
What is 4?
This Supreme Court case focused on the issue of whether burning the flag was a protection of your 1st amendment rights or not.
What is Texas v. Johnson?
This term refers to the ability each branch has to keep any other branch from becoming too powerful.
What is checks and balances?
This amendment protects Americans from illegal searches and seizures and requires that an officer conducting a search obtain a warrant before doing so.
What is the 4th Amendment?
This is the article of the Constitution that helps establish the rules, procedures, and eligibility requirements for Congress.
What is Article I?
This number is the number of amendments that make up the Bill of Rights.
What is 10?
This case focused on whether students could wear armbands in protest of the Vietnam War. The Supreme Court ultimately sided with the students, noting that the armbands in this case did not disrupt the educational process.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
This term refers to an absence of government. It often leads to lawlessness and a lack of control without the presence of a leader.
What is anarchy?
This constitutional amendment recently celebrated its 100th anniversary and provided women the right to vote
What is the 19th amendment?
This is the age you must be in order to run for the House of Representatives.
What is 25?
This number is the total number of representatives in the House of Representatives.
What is 435?
Mapp v. Ohio was a supreme court case involving which constitutional amendment?
What is the 4th Amendment?
Before the Constitution, the United States first had this government document to provide it structure. It was later replaced with the Constitution because it lacked a strong, central government.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This constitutional amendment protects Americans from "cruel and unusual punishment"
What is the 8th Amendment?
This term refers to the "survey" given every ten years (including this year) to help us determine if we need to change the numbers of representatives from a certain state. As population increases, so too does the total number of representatives from a state.
What is the census?
This number is the total number of representatives our state, Tennessee, has in the House of Representatives.
What is 9?
Plessy v. Ferguson was later overturned by this court case in 1954. This case forced the beginnings of school desegregation.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This Enlightenment political thinker believed people are naturally good and therefore they do not need a strong, central government to keep them from doing bad things.
Who is John Locke?
These are the 5 rights and freedoms that are guaranteed to Americans under the 1st Amendment.
What are: speech, religion, press, petition, and assembly?
This term means to redraw congressional districts in a way to block, limit, or suppress the votes of a certain group of people. It is illegal but still sometimes happens.
What is gerrymandering?
This number is the total number of advisors who make up the president's cabinet. On this day in class, we hypothetically assigned people from your life (i.e. family, friends, etc.) to the various cabinet positions.
What is 15?
This Supreme Court case began after an older man was forced to represent himself in court because he could not afford an attorney. The Supreme Court ultimately ruled that the 6th Amendment requires an attorney be appointed for you if you cannot afford one yourself.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
During the constitutional convention, the Virginia Plan was proposed as a way of making government representatives based on population. The ______ (state) Plan instead argued that representation should be the same for every state, no matter how big or small. Ultimately, the constitution adopted a combination of both.
What is New Jersey?