1-5 Amendments
11-15 Amendments
6-10 Amendments
16-20 Amendments
21-27 Amendments
100
Martha is 24 and she lives alone feels like she needs protection she gets a licence for a gun and goes and buys one.
A. Citizenship Rights, Equal Protection, Apportionment, Civil War Debt
B. Non-Enumerated Rights Retained by People
C. Right to bear arms
C. (2nd Amendment) Right to bear arms
100
The 14th Amendment Citizenship Rights, Equal Protection, Apportionment, Civil War Debt, says all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States.
True or False?
True
100
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The 7th Amendment says "In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by ____ shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law."
Jury
100
What Amendment caused secret bars called speakeasies?
The 18th Amendment Prohibition of Liquor.
100
What did the 21st Amendment, Repeal of Prohibition do?
The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed. Liquor is Legal.
200
What Amendment protects you from the police randomly coming in your house and seaching it?
A. Amendment Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition
B. Quartering of Soldiers
C. Search and Seizure
D. Excessive Fines, Cruel and Unusual Punishment
C. (4th Amendment) Search and Seizure
200
The 15th Amendment gives Women's Right to vote
True or False? If believed to be false explain.
False
Right to vote not denied by race
200
What Amendment is this?
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
The 9th, Non-Enumerated Rights Retained by People
200
What Amendment gave women the right to vote?
The 19th Amendment.
200
___ Amendment, Right to vote at age 18.
26th Amendment.
300
True or False? If believed to be false explain. What Amendment is it?
People are protected from random and unreasonable searches and sizures, they can only be searched with probable cause.
True and it is the 4th Amendment Search and Seizure
300
What Amendment says
"The Vice-President shall act as President, as in case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President."
The 12th Election of President and Vice President
300
True or False? If believed to be False explain.
The 8th Amendment Citizenship Rights, Equal Protection, Apportionment, Civil War Debt, protects you from Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
False, The 8th Amendment Excessive Fines, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, protects you from Cruel and Unusual Punishments.
300
Define the 16th Amendment. What is it called? What does it do?
Name- Income Tax
Definition -(along the lines of...) "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
300
What Amend ent is this?
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay poll tax or other tax.
24th Amendment.
400
Correct what is wrong with the statment below.
The 5th Amendment Quartering Soldiers, says that if a soldiers need somhwere to stay you have no choce but to let them stay there.
The 3rd Amendment Quartering Soldier, no solider shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
400
What Amendment Abolished Slavery?
The 13th Amendment.
400
What Amendment does this fall under?
Jack was caught shoplifting he has the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed.
The 6th, Right to Speedy Trial by Jury, Witnesses, Counsel
400
True or False? If belived to be false explain.
The 20th Amendment Presidential Term and Succession, Assembly of Congress- After the president servs a term the Vice President takes their place for the next term.
False. Answer along the lines of, "The terms of the President and the Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin."
400
(2 questions in one) Fill in the blankes.
1. ___ Amendment, Presidential Disability and Success, In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
2. ___ Amendment, Congressional Compensation, No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.
25th Amendment.
27th Amendment.
500
Name all 5 freedoms of the 1st Amendment.
Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition
500
What is the 11th Amendment. Explain the purpose.
Suits Against States
The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.
500
Explain the 10th Amendment Rights Reserved to States or People
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
500
Fill in the blank.
The ____ Amendment, ___________, says that, "The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures."
The 17th Amendment. Popular Election of Senators.
500
Define both the 22nd Amendment and the 23rd Amendment.
22nd Amendment, Two-Term Limit on Presidency, No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term.
23nd Amendment, "Presidential Vote for D.C., The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as Congress may direct:
A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State."