AP Gov Constitution Test
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What is the 1st Amendment?
- Religion, Speech, Assembly, Petition
- What is the 2nd Amendment?
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Right to Bear Arms
- What is the 3rd Amendment?
- Quartering of Soldiers
- What is the 4th Amendment?
- Searches and Seizures
- What is the 5th Amendment?
- Grand Juries, Double Jeapordy, Self Incrimination, Due Process, Eminent Domain
- What is the 6th Amendment?
- Criminal Court Procedures
- What is the 7th Amendment?
- Trial by Jury in Common Law Cases
- What is the 8th Amendment?
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Bails, Fines, and Punishment
- What is the 9th Amendment?
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Rights retained by the People
- What is the 10th Amendment?
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Rights Reserved to the States
- What is the 11th Amendment?
- Suits Against the States (Ratified February 7th, 1795)
- What is the 12th Amendment?
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Election of the President and Vice President (Ratified June 15th, 1804)
- What is the 13th Amendment?
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Slavery (Ratified on December 6th, 1865)
- What is the 14th Amendment?
- Citizenship, Due Process, and Equal Protection of the Laws (Ratified on July 9th, 1868)
- What is the 15th Amendment?
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The Right to Vote (Ratified on February 3rd, 1870)
- What is the 16th Amendment?
- Income Taxes (Ratified on February 3rd, 1913)
- What is the 17th Amendment?
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Election of Senators (Ratified on April 8th 1913)
- What is the 18th Amendment?
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Prohibition (Ratified on January 16th, 1919)
- What is the 19th Amendment?
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Woman's Right to Vote (Ratified on August 18th, 1920)
- What is the 20th Amendment?
- Terms of Office, Convening of Congress, and Succession (Ratified February 6th, 1933)
- What is the 21st Amendment?
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Repeal of Prohibition (Ratified on December 5th, 1933)
- What is the 22nd Amendment?
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Number of Presidential Terms (Ratified on February 27th, 1951)
- What is the 23rd Amendment?
- Presidential Elector for the District of Columbia (Ratified on March 29th, 1961)
- What is the 24th Amendment?
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Poll Tax (Ratified on January 23rd, 1964)
- What is the 25th Amendment?
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Presidential Disability and Vice Presidential Vacancies (Ratified on February 10th, 1967)
- What is the 26th Amendment?
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18 Year Old Vote (Ratified on July 1st, 1971)
- What is the 27th Amendment?
- Congressional Salaries (Ratified on May 18th, 1992)
- What are all Legislative powers vested in?
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A Congress
- What two things make up the Congress?
- House of Representatives and a Senate
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How often are Representatives chosen?
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Every second year
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How old and how long a citizen do Representatives have to be to run for election?
- 25 years old and 7 years a citizen
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Representatives and what shall be apportioned among the several states?
- Direct Taxes
- What does "Enumeration" mean?
- To determine the number of
- The proportion of Representatives to state population will not exceed what?
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1 for every thirty thousand
- Atleast how many Representatives shall each state have?
- 1
- How many Representatives will be entitled to New Hampshire?
- 3
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How many Representatives will be entitled to Mass.?
- 8
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How many Representatives will be entitled to Rhode Island and Providence plantations?
- 1
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How many Representatives will be entitled to Conneticut?
- 5
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How many Representatives will be entitled to New York?
- 6
- How many Representatives will be entitled to New Jersey?
- 4
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How many Representatives will be entitled to Penn.?
- 8
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How many Representatives will be entitled to Delaware?
- 6
- How many Representatives will be entitled to Virginia (the pimp state)?
- 10
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How many Representatives will be entitled to North Carolin?
- 5
- How many Representatives will be entitled to South Carolin?
- 5
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How many Representatives will be entitled to Georgia?
- 3
- What does the Executive Authority issue to fill vacancies?
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Writs of Election
- What are Writs of Election?
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Decrees demanding elections
- What officer does the House of Representatives chose? What sole power do they hold?
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A Speaker and Impeachment
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How many Senators does each state get?
- 2
- How many votes do Senators get and how many years is one of their terms?
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1 and 6 years
- After the first election, how many groups are Senators divided into?
- 3
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How old and how many years a citizen do Senators have to be?
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30 years old and 9 years a citizen
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Who is the president of the Senate but does not get a Vote?
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The Vice President
- What is the sole power of the Senate?
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To try all Impeachments
- When the senate sits for reasons of impeachment what are they under?
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Oath or Affirmation
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Who will preside over the Senate when the President is tried?
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The Chief Justice
- What is the minimum vote for impeachment?
- 2/3
- Who sets the time, place, and manner of elections?
- State Legislatures
- How often is the least amount the congress can convene a year and on what day?
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once a year on the first Monday of December
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What is a Quorum?
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the minimum member of people in a group that must be present for the business of the group to legally take place
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What is naturalization?
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granted full citizenship to
- What is a Bill of Attainder
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a legislative act pronouncing a person guilty of a crime
- What is the minimum vote required to expel a member of a House?
- 2/3
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What shall each house keep?
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a journal
- Whats the maximum time of adjournment for the House?
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3 days
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What is the compensation of congressmen paid out of?
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The Treasury of the United States
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What is an Emolument?
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payments for work done
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Where will all bills to raise revenue originate out of?
- The House of Representatives
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After passing the House of Representatives and the Senate where does a bill go?
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To the president to either be signed or rejected with his noted objections
- What is the minimum vote required to bring a rejected bill into law?
- 2/3
- What happens to a bill the president takes longer than 10 days (excepting sundays) to act on?
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it becomes law
- What does Congress have the power to lay and collect?
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Taxes, imposts, duties, and excises
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What is an Excise?
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a tax on certain goods
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What are letters of Marque and Reprisal?
- official warrants or commissions from a national government authorizing the designated agent to search, seize, or destroy specified assets or personnel belonging to a party who has broken a law
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until what year was the migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by congress?
- 1808
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what is the maximum tax on importations?
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$10 per person
- what is Habeas Corpus
- a writ through which a person can seek relief from unlawful imprisonment
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When can habeas corpus be suspended?
- in cases of rebellion or invasion of public safety
- No preference of commerce and regulation shall be given to what?
- Ports of any states
- What is the only consequence which can take money from the Treasury?
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Appropriations by law
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What is Ex Post Facto law?
- [16:54] Bluenebula92: it's a case in which someone is accused of a crime that is legal when committed but becomes illegal after
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No title of what shall be granted under the United States
- Nobility
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Congress cannot receive emolument from who?
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King, Prince, or foreign state
- No state shall do what?
- enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation, grant letters of marque, coin money, pass any bills of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, lay any imposts or duties on impors and exports
- How long is a presidential term?
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4 years
- what shall each state appoint?
- a number of electors equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatves
- How will the electors vote?
- Ballot for two persons
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If there is a tie between presidential candidates what happens?
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The House of Representatives votes by ballot
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What office requires the person eligible to be a natural born citizen?
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The presidency
- How old and how long a citizen does the President have to be?
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35 years old and 14 years a citizen
- What happens if the President and VP cannot continue to run the country?
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Congress choses a President until elections are held
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The President's compensation is not allowed to what?
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diminish or increase during his term
- What is the President's oath when he is inaugurated?
- I solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of the United States of America. And will to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
- What does the President have the power to grant except in cases of impeachment?
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Reprieves and Pardons
- What may the president require from departments?
- Written opinions on an issue
- With the consent of 2/3 of the Senate, the President may do what?
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make treaties
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Who shall the President appoint?
- Ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and judges of the Supreme Court
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The president addresses who when giving the state of the Union?
- Congress
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What is Article 1?
- The Legislature
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What is Article 2?
- The Executive
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What is Article 3?
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The Judiciary
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What is Article 4?
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Interstate Relations
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What is Article 5?
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Amending the Constitution
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What is Article 6?
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Debts, Supremacy, and Oaths
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What is Article 7?
- Ratifying the Constitution
- What shall the judicial power be vested in?
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A supreme court and inferior courts as congress establishes
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All trials besides impeachment shall be by what?
- Jury
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How many witnesses are required to convict treason?
- 2
- Citizens of each state shall have the same rights as what?
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citizens in other states
- What happens if someone commits a crime in one state and flees to another where he is caught?
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The executive authority sends him back to the state with jurisdiction of the crime
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What can bring new states into the union?
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The Congress
- Can a new State be made inside the jurisdiction of another?
- No
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What shall Congress guarantee to each State in this Union?
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A Republican form of Government
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Congress shall protect each state from what?
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Invasion and on application of the Legislature, or of the Executive if the Legislature is out to lunch, domestic violence
- Whenever 2/3 of both houses deem it necessary or on application of 2/3 of the several states what shall be held?
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A convention to create amendments
- What is required for an amendment to be ratified?
- by 3/4s of the several states or by conventions 3/4s thereof
- No amendment can affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article until what year?
- 1808
- No state shall be deprived of what?
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its equal suffrage in the Senate
- what will never be required of various officers to affirm the constitution and what will be required?
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Religious preference will not be and oath and affirmation will be
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What shall be sufficient for the establishment of the constitution
- the ratification of the conventions of 9 states
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When was the Constitution drafted?
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December 17t, 1787
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In amendment 1, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of what?
- Religion
- In the 1st amendment, what can the Congress not abridge?
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Free speech, or of the press, the right of people to peaceably assemble,
- in the 3rd amendment, no soldier shall be what?
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quartered in any house without the consent of the owner even in war time
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in the 4th amendment, what shall not be violated?
- The publics right to have no property seized or searched without probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation
- in the 5th amendment, what shall no person be held to answer for? I PLEAD THE 5TH!!
- a crime, unless on presentment of an amendment
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What is due process?
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(5th amendment) The respect to rights of someone arrested
- What is double jeapardy? doo doo do doo do do doo doo doo doo do di do do do
- [17:59] Bluenebula92: it means that a person can't be tried twice for the same crime under the same government
- What happens every ten years regarding the House of Representatives?
- A census of the population is conducted to determine how many representatives a state is entitled to.
- How was the respective numbers of a state's population determined?
- the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years (apprenticeship) and 3/5 of all other persons (slaves)
- What amendment removed the 3/5s clause from Article 1?
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the 14th
- What amendment removed the requirement that income taxes be apportioned among the states?
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the 16th
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Are there more Senators or Representatives?
- Representatives- Senators have longer terms though
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Who is second in command of the Senate and 3rd in line to the Presidency?
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The President Pro Tempore
- In regulating the election of Senators, Congress has the power to alter the times and manner but what can they not alter?
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The place
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Each house has the power to judge the _________ and _________ of its members.
- Elections and qulifications
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What is the minimum vote required to enter info in a journal?
- 1/5
- Except in cases of Treason, Felony, or Breach of Peace when are Senators and Representatives safe from arrest?
- When going to, while in, and leaving their respective House
- Until the end of his term, a Senator and Representative is not allowed to do what?
- take a newly created or higher paying political office, or a civil office.
- Upon 2/3s vote from both Houses and presentment to the states for ratification who is bypassed in bringing an amendment into law
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The president
- The Congress has the power to do what with foreign countries, states, and Indian tribes?
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Regulate commerce
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What does the Congress have the power to lay and collect?
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taxes, duties, imposts and excises
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What is an impost?
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an extra tax
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The congress has the power to do what on the credit of the united states?
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borrow money
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Congress has the power to establish uniform rules and laws of what throughout the united states?
- Naturalization and bankruptcies
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Congress has the ability to ______ money, and regulate the value thereof and the value of foreign ______
- Coin
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The congress has the power to punish what?
- the counterfeiting of coin and securities throughout the united states, piracies
- The Congress has the power to raise, support, provide, and maintain what?
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an army and navy
- The Congress is limited the power of laying Capitation which is what?
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(Poll tax) a fixed amount not apportioned to the amount of income of an individual
- What amendment guards against unreasonable searches and seizures?
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The fourth
- What amendment stats that "No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual ser
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The Fith
- What amendment allows for the rights to a speedy and public trial as well as an impartial jury?
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The sixth
- what amendment states that In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved
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The Seventh
- What amendment prohibits excessive bail or fines, as well as cruel and unusual punishment
- the 8th
- What amendment addresses rights of the people that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution?
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the ninth
- What amendment states that "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved for the States respectively, or to the people?"
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the tenth
- What amendment states that citizens of one state are not allowed to charge a different state?
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The eleventh
- What amendment changed the way we elect our president and VP? Note: it used to be the runner up in the presidential race took the VP office. Now its all or nothing and presidential candidates chose their VPs.
- the twelth
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What amendment abolished slavery?
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the thirteenth
- What amendment provided african americans equal rights and disallows previous individuals who have rebelled under oath to protect the constitution which can be overturned with a 2/3s vote in each house?
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The fourteenth
- What amendment states that the right to vote will not account for race, color, or previous condition of servitude?
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the fifteenth
- What amendment says that Congress has the power to collect income taxes?
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the 16th
- What amendment specifies the election of senators and further rules of the Senate?
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the 17th
- What amendment bans alcohol? (Prohibition)
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the 18th
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What amendment allows woman to vote?
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the 19th
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What amendment changed the day of which congress met at least once a year and what day is it?
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the twentieth amendment and the 3rd day of january
- What amendment would become inoperative unless it was ratified by 3/4s of the states within 7 years of being presented?
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the twentieth
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What amendment repealed the prohibition?
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the 21st
- What amendment states there can only be 2 presidential terms?
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the 22nd
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What amendment allows for electors for the district of Columbia equal to the whole number of senators and representatives in conin congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a state
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the 23rd
- what amendment gives the vp the right to be president in the removal of the president and the president the right to nominate a vp if one leaves?
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the 24th
- What is the minimum vote to endorse a presidential nomination of a vp if his original is removed or resigns?
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majority vote
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What amendment lowers the voting age from 21 to 18
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the 26th
- What amendment deals with congressional pay stating "No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened?"
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the 27th
- How many amendments are there?
- 27
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How many amendments are there?
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27