Unit 2: Bill of Rights and States’ Rights and Responsibilities – Flashcards
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When you delegate someone to do something, you authorize them to do it.
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True
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Which amendment prevents excessive bail or fines, or cruel and unusual punishments to the individual?
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Amendment 8
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What Virginia delegate was one of the most powerful influences on the writing of the Constitution?
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George Mason
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What do we call the Constitutional amendments that protect the rights of the individual?
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Bill of Rights
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The Second Amendment gives the citizen the right to:
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keep and bear arms
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Select all the boxes that do NOT apply to the Fourth Amendment
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Soldiers may not be improperly quartered in a citizen's home. School shall not be mandatory for children under the age of fifteen.
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Amendment Nine talks about the enumeration of rights. Enumeration means a
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list
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This amendment tells us that the presence of the list of freedoms doesn't mean "if it's not written here, you don't have the right." Americans have other freedoms than those in the Bill of Rights.
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Amendment 9
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1. scientific methods and practices 2. prevented; forbidden 3. the state testing of potential attorneys in order to see if they qualify for active legal practice 4. official and legal authorization for a specific ownership or practice 5. the creation and maintenance of state fire and police departments, hospitals and other citizen needs 6. the creation and maintenance of state roads, dams, building and other similar projects
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1. technology 2. prohibited 3. state bar exam 4. licensing 5. public safety 6. public works
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Check the one thing that is NOT true about the Electoral College.
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The state of Pennsylvania oversees the inner workings of the Electoral College.
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The power of making laws and enforcing them.
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Jurisdiction
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Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada must honor the Indian Reservation treaties that were drawn up by the American Government for the Indian Nations.
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True
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Check the one thing that is true about a state's public safety service.
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A hospital would be included in the public safety service.
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State licensing involves:
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marriages dental practices auto registration real estate brokers lawyers
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The number of the Constitutional Amendment giving the states freedoms and control is Amendment number
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10
