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Quiz 2
Amendments 1-10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Amendment 1 | Guarantees freedom of religion, speech, assembly, and press, and the right of people to petition the government for redress of grievances |
| Amendment 2 | protects the right of states to maintain a militia |
| Amendment 3 | restricts quartering of troops in private homes |
| Amendment 4 | protects against "unreasonable searches and seizures" |
| Amendment 5 | ensures the right not to be deprived of "life, liberty, or property, without due process of law" including protections against double jeopardy, self-incrimination, and government seizure of property without just compensation |
| Amendment 6 | guarantees the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury |
| Amendment 7 | ensures the right to a jury trial in cases involving the common law (judge-made law originating in england) |
| Amendment 8 | Protects against excessive bail or cruel and unusual punishment |
| Amendment 9 | provides that people's rights are not restricted to those specified in amendments 1-8 |
| Amendment 10 | reiterates the constitutions principle of federalism by providing that powers not granted to the national government are reserved to the states or to the people; powers not delegated to the us by the constitution, are reserved to the states respectively |
| Article 1, Section 8, commerce clause | the congress shall have power... to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the indian tribes |
| Article 1, section 8, elastic clause | the congress shall have power... to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this constitution in the govt of the united states, or in any dept or officer thereof. |
| Article 4, section 3, admission of new states | new states may be admitted by the congress into this union; but no new state shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states... |
| Article 4, section 4, enforcement or republican form of govt | the us shall guarantee to every state in this union a republic form of govt, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive against domestic violence |
| Article 6, supremacy clause | this constitution, and the laws of the us which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the us, shall be the supreme law of the land... |
| judicial | decides if it is ok |
| executive | enforces |
| congress | makes laws |
| fed 51 | separation of powers |
| fed 10 | crucial to factions: remove causes, control effects don't allow people to get together with other people; no liberty encourage so they will cancel each other out and there would be no majority/no group control |
| framers primary goals | ensure the nat'l govt had sufficient power protect minority coalitions |
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