A document added to the Constitution to protect your rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
100
The power of the people in government.
What is democracy?
100
Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, John Hancock and John Adams
Who are the signers of the Declaration of Independence?
100
The process where people of a state, who are registered, vote for a presidential candidate.
What is popular vote?
100
Executive
Legislative
Judicial
What are the 3 branches of government?
200
This amendment protects your rights to freedom of:
Religion
Speech
Press
Petition
What is the 1st amendment?
200
Signed the Declaration of Independence and went on to become the 2nd President of the United States.
Who was John Adams?
200
The process of the President rejecting a proposed law.
What is a veto?
200
If a Presidential candidate receives 270 of these, he/she will win the election.
What are electors?
200
Enforces Laws
Commander in Chief (in charge of the Armed Forces)
Makes treaties with other countries
What are the powers of the Executive Branch?
300
This amendment protects from unreasonable search and seizure.
What is the 4th amendment?
300
This begins the Constitution and states its purpose to establish justice, defend and promote the general welfare (or care for) the people of the United States.
What is the Preamble?
300
Declare war
Coin money
Foreign relations
Control state and foreign trade
What are the powers of federal government?
300
The candidate who gets the electors for a state is determined by this.
What is the popular vote?
300
Passes laws
Approves spending & taxes
Declares war
Makes laws
What are the powers of the Legislative Branch?
400
Double Jeopardy according to the 5th amendment
What is the right to not be tried for the same crime twice?
400
This document amended the Constitution with the rights of the people.
What is the Bill of Rights?
400
The correct order of the following events:
Treaty of Paris
American Revolution Begins
Declaration of Independence
What is American Revolution Begins, Declaration of Independence, Treaty of Paris?
400
The Electoral College was created within this document.
What is the US Constitution?
400
Explains laws
Protects your rights
Declares laws unconstitutional
What are the powers of the Judicial Branch?
500
The total number of years a president can serve in a typical presidency.
What is eight years or two 4 year terms?
500
The father of the Constitution.
Who was James Madison?
500
The document that representatives from the colonies created, which gave power to the government and allowed them to make treaties with foreign governments.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
500
1. 2 Senators for each state
PLUS
2. The number of Representatives the state has in the House which is determined based on that state's population.
What is how electors are calculated for each state?
500
The system which gives each branch of the government the power to limit the actions of the other two branches.