Founding Documents
The name of the break up letter sent from the colonists to King George III
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This is a change made to the Constitution
What is an amendment?
Voltaire had the idea that people's individual rights like free speech and religion needed to be protected, therefore the Founding Fathers protected with this amendment
What is the first?
The first branch of government listed in the Constitution creates this branched designed to create laws
What is the legislative branch?
The first amendment protects the right to freedom of what? Give me one of the numerous answers
What is speech, religion, press, and assemble?
This document was included into another famous document because the Anti-federalists thought individuals needed to be protected
What is the Bill of Rights?
This word means to approve or consent a change to an important governing document
What is ratify?
Rousseau popularized the idea of popular sovereignty encapsulated in this opening phrase of the Constitution
What is We The People?
This branch of government is headed by nine justices of the Supreme Court
What is the Judicial branch?
In order to keep the country safe from a tyrannical government, the second amendment gives citizens the right to do this
What is bear arms?
This document is the ultimate law of the land in the United States and explains the formation and regulation of its government
What is the Constitution?
This is another word for the right to vote
What is Suffrage?
John Locke proclaimed that all people are born with these three natural rights
What are life, liberty and property?
The head of this branch of government is the President
What is the Executive Branch?
Unless shown a search warrant, the fourth amendment protects people from these actions by law enforcement
What are search and seizure?
This was the original founding document of the United States, but its failure to create a strong enough central government led to it being replaced
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This is what states had to do when arguing about how many representatives each state should have in government and if slaves should count in that number
What is compromise?
To avoid the potential formation of a tyrannical government, Montesquieu argued for a this of powers
What is Separation?
This person decides how long a justice stays on the Supreme Court
Who is themselves?
Originally the Constitution only contained 10 amendments. Since this time, this many have been added
What is 17?
These documents were written by numerous people in support of a strong central government, although Alexander Hamilton wrote for the other side
What are the Federalist Papers?
This gives someone the right to rule on something
What is jurisdiction?
Montesquieu, Rousseau, Voltaire and Locke were thinker from this period known for leaving traditional methods of thinking in exchange for thinking based on logic and reason
What is the Enlightenment?
This word is used to describe the legislative branch having two separately functioning chambers
What is bicameral?
The third amendment is totally useless to us today as it protects us from sheltering these people
What are soldiers?