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Amendment
An ______ to the constitution, both written and unwritten, can be made in one of two basic ways.
Executive agreement
A pact made by the President, using the process of ______, carries the same force of law as a treaty.
Rule of Law
Dictators may operate outside the _______, but under the Constitution the government and its officers myst obey it.
Popular Sovereignty
It is the people who are the only source of governmental power in a system of _____.
constitutionalism
Governments that obey the fundamental law of the land are abiding by the principle of ______.
Unconstitutional
In the United States, any governmental action that denies someone fair and equal treatment under the law may be declared ________.
Checks and balances
The system of ____ helps keep one branch of government from dominating the actions of the others.
Separation of Powers
The Constitution provides for the ____ by creating three distinct branches of government: legislative, executive and judicial.
Bill of Rights
The first ten amendments, which provide the protections of basic individual rights and liberties, are called the ______.
formal amendment
Changes to the written provisions of the Constitution may be made only through the process of _____.
With the words, "We the People," the Constitution establishes its authority on the basis of
Popular sovereignty
The President's power to veto an act of Congress is an example of
checks and balances
The framers reconcile the need for an effective central government with a respect for State governments by creating a system of
federalism
Which statement about the Bill of Rights is NOT true?
The amendments were ratified at the same time as the constitution
Which of the following accounts for the ability of the constitution to endure for more than 200 years.
built-in provisions for accommodating change
According to Article V of the Constitution, no amendment may
deprive a state of its equal representation in the Senate.
The informal amendment process
keeps the Constitution responsive and up to date.
The Bill of Rights guarantees all of the following EXCEPT
the right of women to vote
The President's cabinet is an example of informal amendment by
unwritten custom
In most cases involving judicial review, the courts have
found the governmental actions in question to be constitutional.
According to Article V of the Constitution, no amendment may
deprive a State of its equal representation in the Senate.
The Bill of Rights guarantees all of the following EXCEPT
the right of women to vote
Which of the following is mentioned by the Constitution and its amendments?
succession of Vice President to presidency
Which of the following is NOT an example of the checks and balances system?
The President makes an executive agreement
When there is a separation of powers,
power is distributed among three independent branches of government
Which of the following is NOT true of the Constitution?
It has not been changed in 50 years.
Each of the four methods of formal amendment
demonstrates the principle of federalism
Congress can informally amend the constitution by
all of the above
One criticism of the formal amendment process is that
State legislatures, rather than convention delegates elected by the people, often ratify amendments
Which of the following was formally amended to the constitution
prohibition of alcoholic beverages
Which of the following statements about informal amendments is TRUE?
Some have been proposed and ratified as formal amendments.
Which of the following amendments was ratified FIRST?
the amendment guaranteeing freedom of speech.
Which of the consitutional principles listed was Madison describing and defending in the quote below
federalism
at the present time, the number of formal amendments to the constiution is
27
the principle of popular sovereignty is based on the belief that
the government gets its power from the people and can only exist with their consent
based on the reasoning chief justice john marshall used in the excerpt below, what choices best describe the decisions he made in the Mcculloch v Maryland case?
he decided that federal law could not be challenged by state law
which of the following statements best describes the cause and effect of the 15th amendment
it was passed as a result of the unions victory in the civil war, and extended the right to vote to male african americans
