The Preamble
What are the first three words of the Preamble?
Answer: What is “We the People”?
How many amendments are in the Bill of Rights?
Answer: What are 10 amendments?
What is the division of power between the national and state governments called?
Answer: What is federalism?
Who wrote Federalist No. 51?
Answer: Who is James Madison?
Which amendment protects the right to a speedy and public criminal trial?
Answer: What is the Sixth Amendment?
What document begins with the Preamble?
Answer: What is the U.S. Constitution?
Which amendment protects freedom of speech and religion?
Answer: What is the First Amendment?
What divides government power among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches?
Answer: What is separation of powers?
What did Madison mean when he wrote, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary”?
Answer: What is that people are imperfect and government is needed to maintain order?
What is it called when a person is tried twice for the same offense after jeopardy has attached?
Answer: What is double jeopardy?
Name one purpose of the U.S. government listed in the Preamble.
Answer: What is to establish justice, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, or secure liberty?
Which amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms?
Answer: What is the Second Amendment?
What allows each branch of government to limit the power of the other branches?
Answer: What are checks and balances?
Why does government need safeguards?
Answer: What is to prevent people or branches of government from abusing their power?
What is it called when a person is forced to provide evidence against themselves?
Answer: What is self-incrimination?
What does “We the People” mean?
Answer: What is that the government gets its power from the people?
Which amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures?
Answer: What is the Fourth Amendment?
What type of government allows citizens to elect representatives to make laws for them?
Answer: What is representative democracy?
How many votes in each house of Congress are needed to propose a constitutional amendment?
Answer: What is a two-thirds vote in both houses?
Which amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment?
Answer: What is the Eighth Amendment?
What does “establish Justice” mean?
Answer: What is creating a fair system of laws?
Which amendment says that powers not given to the federal government are reserved to the states or the people?
Answer: What is the Tenth Amendment?
What principle means that government officials must follow the law and cannot have unlimited power?
Answer: What is limited government?
What fraction of the states must ratify a constitutional amendment?
Answer: What is three-fourths of the states?
What does it mean to ratify an amendment?
Answer: What is to formally approve it?