The 10 Amendments Flashcards
What is the second amendment?
The right to keep or bear arms.
What is the 1st amendment?
The freedom of speech,press,religion, and petition
What is the third amendment?
The conditions for quarters of soldiers.
What is the forth amendment?
Right of search and seizure regulated
What is the fifth amendment?
Provision concerning prosecution
What is the sixth amendment?
Right to a speedy trial, witness, etc.
What is the 7th amendment?
Right to a trial by a jury in a civil cases
What is the 8th amendment?
Prohibits imposing cruel, unusual punishment and fines, prohibits granting excessive bails.
What is the 9th amendment?
Assures the recognition of those rights that people may have but are not listed here.
What is the 10th amendment?
Provides that the powers that are not given to the United States nor prohibited by the constitution are reserved to the states respectively or to the people
Amendment
A change or a addition to a legal document. This is why the constitution is called “Living Document”. Constitution has 27 amendments
Articles of Confederation
The plan ratified by the states in 1781, that established a national congress with limited power. It was replaced with the Constitution.
Constitutional Convention
The meeting of state delegates in Philadelphia in 1787 that resulted in the writing of the Constitution.
New Jersey Plan
a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a single legislative house with equal representation for each state.
Virginia Plan
a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a legislature of two houses with proportional representation in each house and executive and judicial branches to be chosen by the legislature.
