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What were two of the three main things promoted by the Enlightenment?

Knowledge Reason/Logic Science

Also known as the “upper’” house of the US Congress, this group is composed of only one-hundred elected officials

Senate

He was an English philosopher who influenced the US Constitution with his ideas of the social contract & limited government.

John Locke

If the Supreme Court finds that a law violates one of the principles of the US Constitution, they can repeal (cancel) it through this

Judicial Review

Although a US president is limited to serving two, elected, four year terms, this is the maximum amount of time someone could be president

Ten years

The branch of US Government responsible for managing and making decisions on what the laws mean is this branch

Judicial Branch

This constitutional principle allows US citizens to elect representatives to govern for them.

Republicanism

Besides creating a separation of church and state, what are three of the five individual freedoms established by the first amendment to the US Constitution.

Speech Press Religion Assembly Petition

Taken every ten years, the US Census determines how many seats each state gets in this legislative body

House of Representatives

After an elected official is formally impeached (charged with a crime), it is this legislative bodies responsibility to put them on trial.

The Senate

The branch of US government that is headed by the President and responsible for enforcing our nation’s laws

Executive Branch

This political document, which was signed in 1215, established the principle of “Rule of Law” and was also the first legal document to limit the power of a monarch.

The Magna Carta

The 8th amendment protects those found guilty of a crime from cruel and unusual punishments. It also provides for this, which allows someone charged with a crime to pay a refundable sum of money in exchange for getting out of jail prior to their court date.

Bail

What are the age requirements, respectively, to be POTUS, a US Senator and a Member of the House of Representatives?

President: 35 US Senator: 30 US Representative: 25

According to this constitutional principle, the supreme source of power and authority in the United States are the nation’s citizens

Popular Sovereignty

Created in 1620, this document was signed by the pilgrims & the strangers, and is rightly considered to be the first written constitution in North American History.

The Mayflower Compact

Before an elected, or appointed, official is to be tried for a crime, the House of Representatives must, formally, do this to them

Impeach them (Issue “articles of impeachment”)

Along with the Constitutional principle of Checks & Balances, this is meant to ensure that none of the three branches becomes more powerful than the others.

Separation of Powers

Although it takes ¾’s of the states to ratify an already proposed amendment, what fraction of each house of Congress must first vote in favor of an amendment before it can be proposed to the states?

2/3rds

The sharing of powers between the federal and state governments can be defined by this term

Federalism

This bicameral branch of government is mainly responsible for making our nation’s laws

Legislative

This top court in the US legal system is usually made up of nine justices who are often asked to determine, in their opinions, what the Constitution and other laws actually mean

The US Supreme Court

According to the 4th amendment, unless an officer has a search warrant, they may not search someone’s home or belongings unless they have this.

Probable Cause

This amendment gives you the right to a lawyer, a fair and speedy public trial by jury, and the right to know what you have been accused of

6th Amendment

Eleanor M. Savko 9/13/2018 What are two of the four specific rights that are established by the 5th amendment?

1) You cannot be tried for the same crime twice—called “Double Jeopardy”