The document provides definitions for various terms related to the US Constitution and government. It defines the First Amendment as protecting freedom of press, speech and religion. It defines the Fourth Amendment as requiring a search warrant for police to enter a home. It defines the Fifth Amendment as saying that no one can be put on trial for a serious crime unless a grand jury agrees the evidence justifies it.

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2. Protects freedom of press, speech and religion

3. What is the 1 st Amendment ?

4. Requires a search warrant for police to enter a home.

5. What is the 4 th Amendment?

6. Saying something that is meant to damage another person’s reputation

7. What is slander?

8. No on can be put on trial for a serious crime unless a grand jury agrees the evidence justifies it.

9. What is the 5 th Amendment ?

10. Power of the government to take private property for public use

11. What is eminent domain?

12. The introduction to the Constitution

13. What is the preamble?

14. Sole power to impeach a government official of wrong doing

15. What is the House of Representatives?

16. Determines the number of Representatives each state has.

17. What is Population?

18. Necessary and proper clause of the Constitution often used to expand the powers of Congress

19. What is the elastic clause?

20. 1 st President to be impeached by the House of Representatives

21. Who is President Andrew Johnson?

22. The month in which electors cast votes for President and Vice President of the United States

23. What is December?

24. Administered by the Chief Justice of the United States

25. What is the Oath of Office?

26. Sets up a system for electing a President and lists the requirements for the office

27. What is article II?

28. Presidential speech reporting the nation’s condition to Congress

29. What is the State of the Union?

30. Maximum number of years a President can serve.

31. What is 10 years?

32. Article which created the Judicial Branch

33. What is Article III?

34. Courts which have less power than the Supreme Court

35. What are Inferior Courts?

36. Allows federal courts to decide whether court decisions and laws are in keeping with the intent of the Constitution

37. What is Judicial Review?

38. The federal government has certain powers, even though they are not spelled out in the Constitution

39. What are Implied Powers?

40. The “Great Chief Justice.”

41. Who is Chief Justice John Marshall?

42. Members who attended the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia

43. Who are delegates?

44. Another term for implied power

45. What is absolute?

46. A document presented to Congress for adoption in to law

47. What is a bill?

48. When each branch of the government has the means to check actions of the other branches

49. What are checks and balances?

50. Agreement in 1781 under which the 13 original colonies established a government of states

51. What are the Articles of Confederations?