What does the 27th amendment establish? ALD?

• Congress cannot give itself a pay raise during its current session

• Accountability

• Limited Government

How can the Legislative Branch check the Judicial Branch?

• Can change size of federal court system and the number of Supreme Court justices

• Can propose constitutional amendments

• Can reject Supreme Court nominees• Can impeach and remove federal

judges

What is the second article of the Constitution about?

• Executive Branch

What rights are protected by the 8th amendment? ALD?

• No excessive bail or fines, and no cruel and unusual punishment

• Limited Government

• Rule of Law

How can the Executive Branch check the Legislative Branch?

• Can veto acts of Congress• Can call Congress into special

session• Carries out, and thereby interprets,

laws passed by congress• Vice president casts tie-breaking

vote in the Senate

What right is protected in the 4th Amendment? ALD?

• No unreasonable search and seizures without warrant and probable cause

• Limited Government

• Private Property

Why did the Founders create the checks and balances in the Constitution?

• They feared a concentration of power and the ill effects of this concentration of power, with each branch checking each other none of them will gain absolute power

What is the third article of the Constitution about?

• Judicial Branch

What does the 20th amendment change? Why? ALD?

• President and Congress take office in January instead of March after an election so as to prevent officials who were voted out from continuing their functions for three months after being voted out

• Accountability

How many states needed to ratify the Constitution?

• Nine according to Article VII

How can the Judicial Branch check the Executive Branch?

• Can declare executive actions unconstitutional

• Power to issue warrants• Chief justice presides over

impeachment of president

What is the fourth article of the Constitution about?

• National Unity and Power

What amendment changes the state and federal voting age to 18?

ALD?• 26th Amendment

• Self Government

• Representation

Where is the “privileges and immunities”

clause found and what does it mean?

• Article IV, citizens of other states have the same protections of citizens of a state that they visit (can buy property, get a job, not be unevenly taxed)

What amendment prohibits slavery? Connection to ALD?

• 13th Amendment

• Autonomous Individual

• Private Property

• Limited Government

What is the sixth article of the Constitution about?

• National Supremacy

What amendment authorizes income tax?

• 16th Amendment

What is the seventh article of the Constitution about?

• Ratification of the Constitution

Where is the “full faith and credit” clause found and what does it mean?

• Article IV, states have to recognize each others official acts like marriage, divorce, and adoption (Congress can set what acts are included and how)

What is extradition and where is it found?

• When a state requests another state to send a suspect of a crime back to the original state, found in Article IV

What are the two ways an amendment is ratified?

• ¾ of state legislatures must approve it by a majority vote

• ¾ of states must approve in special conventions

What are the two ways an amendment can be proposed?

• It must pass Congress by a 2/3 vote, both House and Senate

• It must be approved by a convention called by Congress because 2/3 of the states requested the amendment be proposed

What component of ALD is shown in the amendment process? How?• Federalism, proposals are done at the

national level and ratification is done at the state level

In what article does the US assume the debt of the confederation? Why?

• Article VI, this gave legitimacy to the new nation by showing foreign states that it will honor commitments as well as the men who lived in the US that had loans out to the confederation

What does the supremacy clause mean and where is it found?

• National law trumps state law if they differ, Article VI

How can the Executive Branch check the Judicial Branch?

• Nominates Supreme Court justices• Nominate federal judges• Can pardon those convicted in

federal court• Can refuse to enforce Court decisions

How can the Legislative Branch check the Executive Branch?

• Can override presidential veto• Can impeach and remove president• Can reject president’s appointments

and refuse to ratify treaties• Can conduct investigations into

president’s actions• Can refuse to pass laws or to provide

funding that president requests

How does the Judicial Branch check Legislative Branch?

• Can declare laws unconstitutional• Chief justice presides over Senate

during hearing to impeach the president

What amendment guarantees freedom of speech, religion, assembly, and petition? What components of ALD does

this amendment connect to and why?

• First Amendment

• Autonomous Individual

• Limited Government

What is the first article of the Constitution about?

• Legislative Branch

What amendment limits the term of president? How is it limited? ALD?• 22nd Amendment

• Two terms or 10 years

• Accountability

• Representation

What is the fifth article of the Constitution about?

• Amending the Constitution

What amendment protects the right to bear arms? ALD?

• 2nd Amendment

• Autonomous Individual

• Private Property

What does the 19th amendment establish? ALD?

• Women’s suffrage

• Representation

• Self Government