The Constitution
This is document that sets up the government for our nation.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
Voting is a right, responsibility, or both?
What is both?
This is the branch that enforces laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
Who is the longest serving South Carolina Senator?
Lindsey Graham
The name of the current U.S. President.
What is Joseph R. Biden?
The first three words of the Constitution.
What is "We the People"?
When you protest an unfair law, you are using this right.
What is Freedom of Speech?
The branch that decides if laws are good or bad.
What is the Judicial branch?
Who is the Governor of South Carolina?
Henry McMaster
The age a U.S. citizen must be to vote in an election.
What is 18 years old?
The five rights or freedoms given to people in the First Amendment.
What are freedom of Religion, Assembly, Press, Petition, and Speech?
If you gather with others at church/temple services or join a club, you are exercising this right.
What is Freedom of Assembly?
The power a President has to say no to a bill proposed by Congress.
What is VETO?
Who is the junior state Senator of South Carolina?
Tim Scott
The name given to the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
What the first 3 Articles of the Constitution do.
What is to set up the branches of Government?
True or false: the Constitution protects only people born in the U.S.A.
False; it protects all residents.
Two-word phrase for why 3 branches is better than 2.
What is "tie-breaker" or "checks & balances"?
When did South Carolina ratify the constituioin?
May 23rd, 1788
The year that the U.S. Constitution was written.
What is 1787?
The first part, or introduction to the U.S. Constitution, that tells why the Founding Fathers created it.
What is the Preamble?
Following laws is one of these: A right, a responsibility, or both.
What is a responsibility?
The name of the group that makes up the Legislative Branch at the National level.
What is the U.S. Congress?
Columbia SC is in South Carolina District #2. Who is the South Carolina State Senator who represents this district?
Joe Wilson
What "democracy" means in Latin.
What is "people rule"? .