Bill of Rights
This amendment provides citizens the freedom of speech, religion, to assemble, and the right to a free press.
What is the First Amendment?
James Madison
Who is considered the Father of the Constitution.
To amend the Articles of Confederation.
What is all 13 states had to approve?
The branch that makes the laws and raises taxes.
What does the Legislative Branch do?
The opening paragraph of the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
This amendment protects you from testifying against yourself.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
George Washington
Who was the President of the Constitutional Convention?
The person in charge of the country, under the Articles of Confederation.
Who is no one?
The highest court in the country.
What is the Supreme Court?
The changes to the Constitutions.
What are amendments?
Congress cannot do anything other that what the Constitution says it can do - everything else is left up to the states or to people.
What does the Tenth Amendment mean?
Although he wrote the Declaration of Independence, he did not attend the Constitutional Convention, as he was an ambassador to France at the time.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
What are taxes?
The Head of the Executive Branch.
What is the President?
The legislative branch.
What is Congress?
Americans remembered when the British were quartered in homes during colonial times, and ensured this would never happen again with this amendment.
What is the Third Amendment?
He proposed a two-house legislature at the Constitutional Convention, with one house based on population (the House of Representatives) and the other giving each state equal representation (the Senate).
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Under the Articles of Confederation, each state had only one of these.
What is vote?
This house is determined by population.
What is the House of Representatives?
Power is spread out between the three branches so no one branch is stronger than the other, and one branch can stop another branch.
What are checks and balances?
This is a protection in the Fourth Amendment.
What is prevents police and government from searching you or your home, unless they have convinced a judge that there is good reason to believe you have committed a crime.
He wrote the Federalist Papers along with John Jay and James Madison.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
The Articles of Confederations didn't represent the people, it represented these.
What are the States?
Congress is divided into these 2 parts.
What is House of Representatives and the Senate?
Each branch has its own separate duties and powers.
What is separation of powers?