Bill of Rights
The 5th Amendment grants the government this right, provided they pay you for the land they take, and they demonstrate that it is for public use.
What is eminent domain?
Double Jeopardy
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This Amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Double Jeopardy
Washington D.C.
An Amendment grants the right to a lawyer and jury in a civil case?
What is the 7th Amendment?
This Amendment granted the government the right to tax incomes directly.
What is the 16th?
This Amendment banned the sale and consumption of alcohol in the United States, except in medicinal cases.
What is the 18th Amendment?
The 24th Amendment banned this, which is a fee you pay when you vote.
What are poll taxes?
This Article of the Constitution specifies that the document will become ratified, if 9 of the 13 states vote yes.
What is Article 7?
The government cannot punish people cruelly or this other adjective, contained within the 8th Amendment.
What is unusually?
This Amendment granted citizenship to freed slaves, but also all other people naturally born within the United States.
What is the 14th?
Alcohol was unbanned due to this Amendment.
What is the 21st?
The 25th Amendment specifies that this group of people can remove the president from office, if they feel he is unfit for the job.
What is the cabinet?
This is the amount of states that must agree to a proposed Constitutional Amendment, for it to be ratified.
What is 75%?
There are other rights according to this, that people have, other than those listed in the Constitution.
What is the 9th Amendment?
The president and vice president are voted on separately, and because of this Amendment, the Vice President is no longer the runner up in the electoral college.
What is the 12th Amendment?
This period of time, after the election but before the president takes office, was shortened by the 20th Amendment.
What is the lame duck period?
Washington D.C. has this many electoral college votes, equal to Wyoming, the least populous state.
What is 3?
The president has the power to stop a law from being ratified, by doing this action, described in the 2nd Article of the Constitution.
What is the veto?
This group is restricted from exercising any power or ability, not specifically granted, written, and described within the Constitution itself; this is part of the 10th Amendment.
What is the 10th Amendment?
This Supreme Court Cases caused the 11th Amendment to be passed, making it illegal to sue a state.
What is Chisolm vs Georgia?
This crime lord ran the Chicago area liquor market during prohibition, leading to rampant and rising crime, and eventually the undoing of the 18th Amendment.
Who is Al Capone?
When congress increases their own pay through legislation, that pay increase cannot begin until this has happened.
What is a new election?
Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution grants congress power to make laws about many things. It also allows congress power to do anything else that is necessary or proper to do those things.
What is the elastic clause?