Constitution Basics
This document is the supreme law of the land
What is the Constitution?
This branch makes laws
What is the Legislative Branch?
The first group of people to represent the original colonies
What is the Continental Congress?
Citizens vote for leaders in this process
What are elections?
A person who lives in a country and has rights and responsibilities there
What is a citizen?
The first 10 amendments are called this
What is the Bill of Rights?
This branch enforces laws
What is the Executive Branch?
Being in favor of a big federal government
The minimum voting age in the U.S.
What is 18?
One example of a responsibility of citizens
What is... voting, obeying the law, etc.
“We the People” appears at the beginning of the Constitution and is called this
What is the Preamble?
This branch interprets laws
What is the Judicial Branch?
Being in favor of limited federal government
What is anti-federalist?
We vote for a President every ______ years
What is every 4 years?
This is an example of a citizen's right
What is to vote, petition, peacefully assembly, etc.?
The Constitution replaced these bylaws adopted by the Continental Congress in 1777 & ratified in 1781
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This branch includes Congress
What is the Legislative Branch?
These essays were sent anonymously to the news papers to try get people to side with the Federalists
What are the Federalist Papers
This many electoral votes wins the Presidency
What is 270 votes
We show loyalty to this when we say the Pledge of Allegiance
What is the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic.
This amendment gives the right to free speech
What is the 1st Amendment?
This branch includes the Supreme Court
What is the Judicial Branch?
To approve, authorize, and affirm into law. It starts with an 'r'
Ratify
There are ________ electors in the Electoral College
What are 538 (one for each member of Congress and 3 to Washington DC)
Paying money to the government to support services
What are taxes?