A More Perfect Union
The original ratio of this position was set to "not exceed one for every thirty Thousand". Today each one from Ohio today represents roughly 710,000 constituents.
What is a U.S. House Representative?
"Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn't be that women are the exception." - R. G.
Who is Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
The Supreme Law of the Land
What is the Constitution?
The only President who did not represent a political party.
Who is George Washington? (believing that political parties would divide and destroy the young United States)
"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This US State had the largest representation in the first US House of Representatives.
What is Virginia (10)?
"Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less" - S. A.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
This stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful.
What is "Checks and Balances" or "Separation of Powers"?
What is the Republican Party?
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union"
What is the Constitution?
The only one of these complaints to NOT be in the Declaration of Independence:
1. "He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance."
2. "For protecting [Armed Forces], by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States"
3. "for that purpose advancing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; approving to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and improving the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands."
4. "He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers."
What is "advancing (not obstructing) the Laws of Naturalization of Foreigners..."
“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.” - M. W.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
The person, should both the President and the Vice President no longer be able to serve, that becomes President.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
After the 1832 election, opponents of Democratic Populist Andrew Jackson—primarily National Republicans, Anti-Masons, and others—coalesced into this Party led by Henry Clay.
What is the Whig Party?
"Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled.”
What are the Articles of Confederation? - Benjamin Franklin
The number of articles in the U.S. Constitution.
What is seven?
“We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them” – A. A.
Who is Abigail Adams?
Who also said "Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands" and "If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation."
Under the Constitution, one of the Powers of the Federal Government...
What is...
▪ to print money?
▪ to declare war?
▪ to create an army?
▪ to make treaties?
The first two opposition parties in the United States.
What are the Democratic Republican and Federalist Parties?
“[A]ccumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands … may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
What are the Federalist Papers? (this one from James Madison)
This northern state was identified as "plantations" in Article I of the Constitution.
What is Rhode Island? (The "Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations" had one representative in the inaugural House of Representatives)
"I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life." - S. S.
Who is Justice Sonya Sotomayor?
Under the Constitution, one of the Power of the State...
What is...
▪ provide schooling and education?
▪ provide protection (police)?
▪ provide safety (fire departments)?
▪ give a driver’s license?
▪ approve zoning and land use?
This progressive party was formed by a former Republican President, Theodore Roosevelt.
What is the Bull Moose Party?
"Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinction. The first is a patron, the last a punisher."
What is "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine?