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

3. Knowledge
Reason/Logic
Science

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

5. Senate

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

7. John Locke

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

9. Judicial Review

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

11. Ten years

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

13. Judicial
Branch

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

15. Republicanism

16. 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.

17. Speech
Press
Religion
Assembly
Petition

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

19. House
of Representatives

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

21. The
Senate

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

23. Executive Branch

24. 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.

25. The
Magna Carta

26. 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.

27. Bail

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

29. President: 35
US Senator: 30
US Representative: 25

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

31. Popular Sovereignty

32. 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.

33. The
Mayflower
Compact

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

35. Impeach them (Issue “articles of impeachment”)

36. 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.

37. Separation of Powers

38. 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?

39. 2/3rds

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

41. Federalism

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

43. Legislative

44. 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

45. The US Supreme Court

46. 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.

47. Probable
Cause

48. 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

49. 6th Amendment

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

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