Government
This branch of government makes the laws.
What is the legislative branch?
I(you) will register at the age of 18 and cast a ballot each election cycle.
What is voting?
The First Amendment protects these.
What are Religion, Assembly, Petition, Press and Speech (RAPPS).
This Amendment abolished slavery.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment.
Congress's two houses.
What are the senate and the house of representatives?
This branch of government enforces, or carries out, laws.
What is the executive branch?
The people are the source of government power.
What is popular sovereignty?
Ex:voting on a specific issue
The second amendment protects this.
What is the right to bear arms/own guns?
This Amendment provided women the right to vote.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
The number of Articles of the Constitution.
What is seven?
This branch of government interprets the law.
What is the judicial branch?
When power is shared between state and federal government.
What is federalism?
The Fourth amendment protects you from this.
What is unreasonable search and seizure?
This Amendment protects the voting rights of all citizens regardless of race, color, or prior servitude.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
The "Father of the Constitution".
The division of government into three branches in order to limit the power of any one person or body.
What is the separation of powers?
The act of formally accusing a public official (like the President) of a crime, which results in removal from office.
What is impeachment?
The Fifth Amendment protections.
What are: Grand Jury; Double Jeopardy; self-incrimination; due process of law; no taking without just compensation.
This Amendment changed the voting age from 21 to 18 years of age.
The Twenty-Sixth Amendment.
The first Constitution of the United States.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
A system of restrictions placed on individual branches of government to maintain a balance of power.
What is the system of checks and balances?
A change to the Constitution, which requires a 2/3 majority of Congress or a 3/4 majority of states to ratify/approve.
What is an amendment?
The Ninth and Tenth Amendment provisions.
What are: not all rights of citizens are listed in the Constitution; powers not listed for the federal government belong to the state; powers not listed for government belong to the citizens.
This Amendment was the only amendment made by a convention of the states.
What is the Twenty-First Amendment.
(repealed the Eighteenth Amendment's prohibition of alcohol).
The process of State approval of the Constitution.
What is ratification?