Unit 2: Bill of Rights and States’ Rights and Responsibilities – Flashcards

When you delegate someone to do something, you authorize them to do it.

Which amendment prevents excessive bail or fines, or cruel and unusual punishments to the individual?

What Virginia delegate was one of the most powerful influences on the writing of the Constitution?

What do we call the Constitutional amendments that protect the rights of the individual?

The Second Amendment gives the citizen the right to:

Select all the boxes that do NOT apply to the Fourth Amendment

Amendment Nine talks about the enumeration of rights. Enumeration means a

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.

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

Check the one thing that is NOT true about the Electoral College.

The power of making laws and enforcing them.

Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada must honor the Indian Reservation treaties that were drawn up by the American Government for the Indian Nations.

Check the one thing that is true about a state's public safety service.

State licensing involves:

The number of the Constitutional Amendment giving the states freedoms and control is Amendment number