This amendment abolished slavery or involuntary servitude except as a punishment for a crime.
What is the thirteenth amendment?
100
Document that created an alliance of states while still guaranteeing each state its "sovereignty, freedom and independence", but it weakened the national government.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
100
This branch of government has the power to impeach the President.
What is the House of Representatives?
100
This is the term for any change made to the Constitution.
What is an amendment?
200
The year that the Bill of Rights was ratified.
What is 1791?
200
This amendment extended the right to vote to women.
What is the nineteenth amendment?
200
This Compromise stated that Congress could regulate interstate and foreign trade, but could not ban the slave trade until 1808.
What is the Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise?
200
This Article of the Constitution explains how the Constitution can be changed.
What is Article Five?
200
Any written or published statement intended to damage a person's reputation.
What is libel?
300
The five types of speech that are protected by the first amendment.
What is talking, writing, gestures, writing on person and symbolism by deed?
300
The "Civil War" amendments (there are three of them).
What is the 13th, 14th and 15th amendment?
300
The two individuals currently representing Alaska in the Senate.
Who are Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan?
300
The length of a Senate term.
What is six years?
300
The collection of individuals who formally vote for the President and Vice President.
What is the Electoral College?
400
The tenth amendment reinforces this concept.
What is federalism?
400
The twenty fourth amendment prohibits the state from levying these.
What is poll taxes?
400
The maximum number of years that an individual may serve as President.
What is ten years?
400
The number of individuals currently serving in the House of Representatives.
What is 435?
400
The term for the seven main divisions of the Constitution.
What is the Articles?
500
The eight amendment prohibits these two things from happening.
What is excessive fines and bail and cruel and unusual punishment?
500
This amendment allows congress to levy taxes BEFORE citizens receive their pay checks.
What is the sixteenth amendment?
500
This states that the US Constitution, laws passed by Congress and treaties of the US Government overrule state laws and local ordinances.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
500
The rule that 1/3 of the Senate is elected every two years.
What are staggered elections?
500
Trial for a second time for a crime of which the accused was acquitted in the first trial?