Branches of Government
Also known as the highest court in our country.
What is the Supreme Court?
These are the first three words of the Preamble.
What are "We the People..."?
It states: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
What is the First Amendment?
This is the number of amendments in the Bill of Rights.
What is 10?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
The individual who holds this office is the commander-in-chief of the military.
Who is the President?
An addition to the Constitution. The first 10 of these are known as the Bill of Rights.
What is a Constitutional amendment?
This refers to the freedom to worship any god or God of your choosing.
What is the freedom of religion?
This right is guaranteed by the second amendment.
What is the right to own a gun?
This amendment gave women the right to vote in elections.
What is the 19th amendment?
These two houses aren't lived in. Together, they make up Congress.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
This is the number of Articles in the U.S. Constitution.
What is 7?
This first amendment freedom allows newspapers and other media to publish what they choose.
What is the freedom of the press?
This amendment ensures that you will not be forced to house a soldier without your permission.
What is the 3rd amendment?
This amendment prohibited the sale and production of alcohol nationwide.
What is the 18th amendment?
This is the Constitutional system that is designed to prevent one branch of the government from gaining power over the other two.
What is the system of checks and balances?
The Constitution was written to set up this kind of government.
What is a representative democracy?
This right has several exceptions including perjury and threatening the president.
What is freedom of speech?
This states that one cannot be tried for the same crime twice.
What is double jeopardy?
This amendment places limits on how long a president may serve. It states that a president may only serve 2 four-year terms.
What is the 22nd amendment?
These three terms from the Constitution describe the three branches of the U.S. government, also known as the Presidency, Congress, and the Supreme Court.
What are Executive, Legislative, and Judicial?
Popular Sovereignty gives people the right to these two things.
What are the rights to vote and to elect their government officials?
These guarantee citizens the right to lobby government officials as well as the right to come together to promote their collective political ideas.
What are the rights to protest and assembly?
This amendment protects against cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the 8th amendment?
This amendment prohibits members of congress from giving themselves raises.
What is the 27th amendment?