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Which amendment: ensures that people's rights that are not specifically listed in the Constitution are retained by the people

Amendment IX

Which amendment: protects the rights of accused persons

Amendment V

Which amendment: provides the right to a speedy, fair trial

Amendment VI

Which amendment: guarantees the right to a trial by a jury of one's peers

Amendment VII

Which amendment: prohibits excessive bail and fines, prohibits cruel and unusual punishment

Amendment VIII

Which amendment: grants to the states and to the people powers that are not specifically listed in the Constitution

Amendment X

What are the 2 methods for ratifying an amendment?

*The proposed amendment is voted on by state legislatures. Legislatures in at least 3/4 of the states must approve an amendment before it is added to the Constitution *Citizens elect delegates to conventions called in each state specifically to consider the amendment. Passage by this method requires approval by conventions in at least 3/4 of the states

supermajority

*any majority that is larger than a simple majority, such as three-fifths, two-thirds, or three-fourths

What are the 2 ways in which an amendment can be proposed?

*by Congress, with the approval of at least 2/3 of the House and 2/3 of the Senate *by delegates at a national convention that is called by Congress at the request of at least 2/3 of the state legislatures

repeal

*to cancel or revoke a law by a legislative act

Which amendment: asserts the need for a militia and protects the right to keep and bear arms

Amendment II

Which amendment: prevents soldiers from taking over private homes during peacetime or war unless authorized to do so by law

Amendment III

The Constitution requires proposed amendments to have greater State support for ___than _____. A. proposal/ratification B. proposal/conventions C. conventions/ratification D. ratification/ proposal

D

T/F In the aftermath of the Civil War, Congress passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments—collectively called the Jim Crow amendments.

F

T/F To amend the Constitution, a majority vote in Congress proposes a change and then the 50 states vote whether or not to ratify the change.

F

What makes the U.S. Constitution an enduring document?

It has lasted for more than 220 years with few changes

T/F After an amendment to the Constitution has been formally proposed by Congress, it requires 3/4 of the state legislatures to approve it in order for the amendment to be ratified.

T

T/F The Nineteenth Amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920.

T

What are the 4 ways of amending the Constitution?

proposed by Congress and ratified by state legislatures; proposed by Congress and ratified by state conventions; proposed by national convention and ratified by Congress; proposed by national convention and ratified by state conventions

Which amendment: safeguards freedom of religion, speech, press, and the right to assembly and to petition

Amendment I

Which amendment: prohibits unreasonable searches and seizurs

Amendment IV

How many ways can an amendment be proposed?

2

How many ways can States ratify an amendment? And who determines which method of ratification is to be used?

2; Congress

How many amendments have been passed by Congress? Of those, how many have been adopted?

33; 27

What article in the Constitution describes the process for amending the Constitution?

Article V

Why did the Framers make amending the Constitution a difficult process?

Framers wanted to ensure that the difficult process of changing the Constitution would weed out frivolous amendments

Why was Madison opposed to frequent changes to the Constitution?

He felt that the Constitution would gain authority the longer it went unchanged and that changing it too often could split the country into factions

When does an amendment get ratified?

Once an amendment has been formally proposed by either method, Congress sends the proposed amendment to the 50 states for ratification

T/F The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is an example of an informal amendment to the Constitution through the Tpassage of basic legislation

T

T/F The Constitution has been amended 27 times—and many of the changes deal with voting rights and personal liberties.

T

T/F The Framers of the Constitution wanted to make changing the document difficult in order to weed out frivolous amendments.

T

T/F The first 10 amendments to the Constitution are known as the Bill of Rights

T

T/F While Jefferson believed that the Constitution needed to be revised every generation or so, Madison argued that periods of chaos would reign between revisions and factionalism would allow foreign powers to prey on the nation.

T

T/F The executive branch and the judicial branch play no significant role in the formal amendment process to the Constitution.

T formal amendments are proposed by the legislature and ratified by the states

What are five issues that constitutional amendments have addressed?

guaranteeing basic personal freedoms and rights; states' rights; status of African Americans; social issues: political issues