CIVICS: Quiz pt. 2| U.S. Constitution

Impeachment Process

1. Begins in the House of Representatives - Impeach

2. A majority vote is needed

3. Moves to Senate - Remove

4. Senators debate on it then vote 2/3 of votes needed

Necessary and Proper/Elastic Clause

this clause allows Congress to make laws on things not directly mentioned in the Constitution, as long as those laws help Congress do its job. It gives Congress flexibility to adapt to new situations or needs over time.

Habeas Corpus

It ensures that a person who is arrested or detained can ask a court to review whether their detention is lawful, and know why they are getting thrown in jail. “you shall have the body”

Ex Post Facto

This means that the government cannot pass laws that punish someone for something they did before the law was created, or make the punishment harsher for a crime that was already committed.

Full Faith and Credit

each state must respect and recognize the laws, court decisions, and public records of other states

Extradition

the process of sending a person who has been accused or convicted of a crime from one state or country to another where the crime was committed, so they can be tried or serve their sentence.

Supremacy Clause

The Supremacy Clause helps make sure there is a unified legal system in the country and that federal laws are followed nationwide.

1st Amendment - (remember there are 5 freedoms in this amendment!)

speech, religion, press, assembly, petition

4th Amendment

protection from unreasonable searches or arrests

8th Amendment

Protection from cruel and unusual punishments

10th Amendment

States have all powers unless specifically denied to them or specifically given to federal government

14th

equal protection of the law

15th

right to African Americans and Congress power to enforce this amendment

19th

anyone of any sex is allowed to vote

26th

anoyone 18+ is allowed to vote

Zenger Trial

14th, supremely claws. helped shape constitution ammendment

Plessy v. Ferguson

seat train, 14th

Brown v. Board of Education

racial segregation, unconstitutional “separate but equal”

Little Rock Nine

Their enrollment was a critical test of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.