U.S. Constitution Flashcards

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Year Ratified

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1788

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Year Effective

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1789

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Free Exercise Clause/Establishment Clause (Freedom of Religion)

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First Amendment

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Keep and Bear Arms

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Second Amendment

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Freedom of Speech

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First Amendment

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Freedom of the Press

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First Amendment

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Peaceful Assembly

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First Amendment

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Right to Petition the Government

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First Amendment

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Right to refuse quartering of soldiers

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Third Amendment

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Unreasonable search and seizure

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Fourth Amendment

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Warrants upon Probable Cause

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Fourth Amendment

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12
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Double Jeopardy

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Fifth Amendment

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13
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Right against self-incrimination

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Fifth Amendment

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Grand Jury for Capital Offenses

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Fifth Amendment

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Due Process (Federal)

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Fifth Amendment

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Speedy/Public Trial

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Sixth Amendment

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Impartial Jury

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Sixth Amendment

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Right to Counsel

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Sixth Amendment

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Right to Confront Witnesses

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Sixth Amendment

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Trial by Jury/Prohibition on Courts re-examination of facts tried by Jury

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Seventh Amendment

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Excessive Bail

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Eighth Amendment

22
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Cruel and Unusual Punishment

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Eighth Amendment

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Unenumerated Rights

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Ninth Amendment

24
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Reservation of Rights to the States/People

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Tenth Amendment

25
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Slavery Abolished

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Thirteenth Amendment

26
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Citizenship for formerly enslaved people

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Fourteenth Amendment

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Due Process (States)

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Fourteenth Amendment

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Privileges and immunities (States)

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Fourteenth Amendment

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Equal Protection (States)

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Fourteenth Amendment

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Right to vote not based on race, color, or previous enslavement

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Fifteenth Amendment

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Prohibition

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Eighteenth Amendment

32
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Votes for Women

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Nineteenth Amendment

33
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Repeal of 18th Amendment/End of Prohibition

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Twenty-first Amendment

34
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Ratification of the Bill of Rights (Year)

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1791

35
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Ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment (Year)

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1865

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Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment

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1868

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Ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment

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1870

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Ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment

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1919

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Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment

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1919

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Ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment/Repeal of Prohibition

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1933

41
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States required to ratify and amendment

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3/4 (38 states)

42
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Reconstruction Amendments

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13th, 14th, and 15th

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Executive Article

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Article II

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Legislative Article

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Article I

45
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Judicial Article

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Article III

46
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Predecessor to the Constitution

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Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union

47
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Preamble

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“We the People…”