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Hall, A

Bill of Rights

Question: What is the main purpose of the 2nd amendment?
Answer: To give the right to bear arms.

Question: When were the Bill of Rights ratified?
Answer: December 15, 1791

Question: What influence did Magna Carta have on the Bill of Rights?
Answer: Majorly influenced the 5th amendment, stating that no one can be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.

Question: Who was the last state to ratify the Bill of Rights?
Answer: Virginia

Question: How many official copies of the Bill of Rights are there?
Answer: 14

Three Branches of Government

Question: What are the three branches of government?
Answer: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial

Question: What is the purpose to having "Checks and Balances"?
Answer: To keep one branch from becoming too powerful.

Question: Senate and House of Representatives. Which is a part of Congress?
Answer: Both

Question: Who has the power of the Executive Branch?
Answer: The president (Barack Obama)

Question: How many Supreme Court justices were there originally?
Answer: 11

13 Original Colonies

Question: What was the first state of the 13 original?
Answer: Virginia

Question: What was the last of the 13 original colonies?
Answer: Georgia

Question: What year was Virginia founded?
Answer: 1607

Question: What year was Georgia founded?
Answer: 1732

Question: Who was the founder of New Hampshire?
Answer: John Wheelwright 

The Constitution

Question: When was the Constitution signed?
Answer: September 17, 1787

Question: How many articles are in the Constitution?
Answer: 7

Question: How many amendments are in the constitution?
Answer: 27

Question: How many times has the constitution been amended?
Answer: 17 (after the Bill of Rights)

Question: How many delegates signed the Constitution?
Answer: 39

Vocabulary

Question: Definition of Treason
Answer: the crime of betraying one's country

Question: Definition of Popular Sovereignty 

Answer: idea that the political authority belongs to the people

Question: Definition of Federalism
Answer: system of government in which power is divided between a federal and state governments

Question: Definition of Constitution
Answer: body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organizations is acknowledged to be governed

Question: Definition of Confederation
Answer: a more or less permanent union of countries with some or most political power vested in a central authority