History
This British Document Established the Rule of Law as a basic principle of governance.
What is Magna Carta?
What is 2?
This is the minimum age of anyone wishing to be president.
What is 35?
This is the name of the top court in the land?
What is the US Supreme Court.
This is the number of amendments to the US constitution.
What is 27?
This amendment states that americans have the right to freedom of speech, press, assembly, petition, and religion.
What is the first amendment?
What is the right to vote.
This is the term of service for members of the house.
This is the length of the term each senator serves?
What is 6 years?
This is how many terms each president may serve.
What is 2?
This amendment outlawed slavery except as punishment for a crime.
What is the 13th amendment?
This often debated amendment gives americans the right to keep and bear arms.
Thomas Paine wrote this very popular pamphlet encouraging colonists to separate entirely from Great Britain in 1776.
What is Common Sense
This is the minimum age of anyone wishing to serve as a representative.
What is 25 years of age.
This is the minimum age to serve in the Senate?
What is 30?
This is the title of the person who takes control if the president is unable to remain president.
What is the vice-president?
This is how many people serve on the US Supreme Court right now.
What is 9?
This amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
This amendment guarantees freedom from excessive bail and cruel & unusual punishment.
What is the Articles of Confederation.
This is the title of the leader of this house.
What is the Speaker of the House?
What is 2/3 of senators?
The president and vice president are formally elected by this body.
What is the Electoral College?
What is Marbury vs. Madison?
This amendment limited the president to 2 terms in office.
What is the 22nd amendment?
This amendment guarantees anyone accused in criminal court the right to a speedy trial by jury as well as legal counsel.
What is the 6th amendment?
The Revolutionary War was ended by this treaty, signed September 3, 1783.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This is the kind of bills that may only originate from this representative body.
What are spending bills?
Who is the Vice President of the United States?
This is how long you must have been a citizen to serve as president or vice president?
What is Natural Born Citizen, or for their entire life?
Federal courts below the US Supreme court are known as this.
What are Appellate courts.
What is the 26th amendment?
This amendment guarantees you the right to a warrant before anything of yours is searched or seized.
What is the 4th amendment?
This philosopher believed in a limited government as a form of social contract.
Who was John Locke?
Bills are first sent to these smaller bodies for deliberation.
What are committees?
This person acts as the presiding officer of the senate and can fulfill all roles of the president of the senate, except for casting tie breaking votes.
Who is the Senate President Pro Tempe?
The president may issue one of these to make rapid changes that are already funded, do not need congressional approval, and need quick action.
What is an executive order?
This case declared that Separate but equal was constitutionally appropriate.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
This is the only amendment to be cancelled out by another one.
What is the 18th amendment, prohibition of alcohol
This amendment guarantees you don't have to testify against yourself in criminal court.
What is the 5th amendment?
This convention was originally meant to only modify the articles of confederation.
What was the Philadelphia Convention.
This is a bill charging a member of the executive or judicial branch with high crimes or misdemeanors. It is tried in the senate.
What is a bill of impeachment?
This is how long you must have been a citizen to serve in the senate.
What is 9 years?
Congress establishes, funds, and entrusts laws to these entities that are in the executive branch.
What are executive agencies?
This case declared that separate was never equal, abolishing segregation in the US for good.
What is Brown vs. The Topeka Board of Education
This amendment changed the vice president from the second place winner to a candidate selected to run as vice president by the presidential candidate.
What is the 12th amendment.
This amendment explains what powers are reserved for the states.
What is the 10th amendment?
This right to know what you're being accused of and why you're being held was suspended for colonists by the British.
What is a writ of habeus corpus?
This is how long you must have been a citizen to serve as a representative.
7 years
Both houses of congress must override a presidential veto by this majority to pass a bill anyway.
What is a 2/3 majority?
What is the US Constitution.
This was the first African American Supreme court justice.
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
This amendment contains the equal protection clause?
What is the 14th amendment?
This man wrote the Bill of Rights
Who was James Madison?
This person wrote the preamble to the constitution.
Who is Governeur Morris?
Every state is guaranteed a minimum of how many members of the house?
What is one?
This is how many federal offices any member of congress can hold at one time.
What is one?
What are cabinet secretaries?
This case declared that laws banning interracial marriage were against the constitution.
What is Loving vs. Virginia?
This amendment allowed congress to collect income tax.
What is the 16th amendment?
This is the year the bill of rights was passed.
What is 1791?