Bill of Rights
This Amendment protects against self-incrimination and double jeopardy.
What is the 5th?
According to Fed. 51, if men were this, there would be no need for government.
What are angels?
This is the number of Electoral College votes need to win the Presidency.
What is 270?
That is a system of government where power is distributed between national and state governments.
Who is federalism?
2/3 vote of this group is required to remove a federal official that has been impeached.
What is the Senate.
This amendment protects us from unreasonable search and seizures.
What is the 4th Amendment?
In Fed. 70, Hamilton argues that promptitude is good for the executive branch but not for this.
What is the Legislative branch (Congress)?
This group has the power to impeach (charge) a President or federal judges.
What is the House of Representatives?
This means the powers of the three branches of government are expressly written/listed in the Constitution.
What is enumerated powers?
The number of votes needed in both chambers of Congress or state legislatures to propose a Constitutional amendment.
What is the 2/3rds?
This Amendment guarantees the right to a jury for a civil trial.
What is the 7th Amendment?
In Fed. 70, Hamilton argues that this place, historically, has shown us that republics can easily become dictatoroships.
What are Rome?
The 23rd amendment gave this place 3 electoral college votes even though it is not a state.
What is Washington D.C.?
Those are unconstitutional laws that determine a person guilty of a crime without trial.
What is the bills of attainder?
A President can do 3 things when it comes to receiving a bill from Congress, sign it, veto it or this?
What is ignore?
This amendment explains that people have rights that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution.
What is the 9th amendment?
It is the check that the Supreme Court has when ruling acts of the other two branches of government as unconstitutional (Fed. 78).
What is the judicial review?
This is the punishment if an official is found guilty during a trial of impeachment.
What the removal from office?
That means that both the states and the federal government have those powers, such as taxing or enforcing laws.
What are concurrent powers?
According to Article II, you must be at least 35 years old and have lived in the country for the last 14 years before you can run for this office.
What is the President?
The first Amendment states that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free excersise thereof, or inhibiting the free exercise of speech, or of the press or the right to peacefully assemble or this.
What is the right to petition the government?
Concerning checks and balances, Fed. 51 felt that this was the greatest check on government power.
What is the people?
The number of these two groups determine how the Electoral College is apportioned among the states.
What is the House and Senate?
This clause requires that states are obligated to honor other states' public acts, records, and court decisions
What is the full faith and credit clause?
The origination clause states that all bills concerning taxes must start here.
What is the House of Representatives?