Constitution #1
These important people are at the head of each level of government.
Who is the President?
Five Freedoms: Speech, Religion, Press, Assembly, Petition.
What is the 1st Amendment?
This system of government assures power is not centralized in one person or agency.
What is Separation of Powers?
The first 10 amendments of the Constitution are called...
What is the Bill of Rights?
The type of government used in the United States.
What is Representative Government?
Sets up & defines the government and protects the rights of Americans
What is the function of the Constitution?
This constitution has this many amendments.
What is 27?
What are the qualifications to be in the House of Representatives?
What is 25, live in the state they represent, and be a citizen for 7 years.
Why is 1787 important?
What is the year the Constitution is ratified?
The right to bear arms.
What is the 2nd amendment?
This person has the authority to veto bills passed in Congress.
Who is the President?
This source of power uses intimidation to control people.
What is Physical Force?
You have to be this age to vote in the United States.
What is 18?
A change or an addition to the Constitution?
What is an Amendment?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Federalism
What is power between State and Federal Government?
This source of power uses money to control people.
What is Wealth?
This amendment guarantees the rights of criminal defendants, including the right to a public trial without unnecessary delay, the right to a lawyer, the right to an impartial jury, and the right to know who your accusers are and the nature of the charges and evidence against you.
What is the 6th amendment?
What are the qualifications to be President?
What is 35, born in the US, and citizen for 14 years?
What are the qualifications to be in the Senate?
What is 30 years old, live in the state that they represent, and be a citizen for 9 years.
Can make the laws
What is Legislative Branch?
Carries out the laws
What is Executive?
Can interpret laws
What is Judicial?
What is a group that has similar political goals and seeks to elected people with the same like mindedness called?
What are political parties?
What group of people work for the President that they nominate?
What is the Cabinet?
This protects you from "cruel or unusual punishment" if convicted of a crime.
What is the 8th Amendment?
This amendment requires the police to have the warrant to search your person or property.
What is the 4th Amendment?
This part of the Judicial System is the last stop. They rule on Constitutional issues.
What is the Supreme Court?