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Constitution Retest
Constitution Reasses
Question | Answer |
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What do you call a change to the Constitution? | Amendment |
United States citizen's responsibilities | A citizen's group participating in local political and community affairs, obey laws, Vote for representation in government, pay taxes, & serve on a jury |
Ways to ratify an amendment to the Constitution: | 3/4 of state conventions, 3/4 of state legislatures |
Right: | Freedoms citizens have in their country |
Responsibility: | Ways citizens should act for the good of their country |
The first step of the amendment process: | Proposed amendment by Congress |
The second step of the amendment process: | Amendments are ratified by the states |
Example of a citizen's rights: | freedom of speech, women can vote, bare arms, government can collect taxes |
An example of a right and a responsibility would be: | voting |
example of a person's rights being protected by the law: | I can go to court to prove my innocence |