Constitution

1. What is the supreme law of the land?

• ▪ the Bill of Rights

• ▪ announced our independence (from Great Britain)

• ▪ the Constitution

• ▪ twenty-seven (27)

2. What does the Constitution do?

• ▪ protects basic rights of Americans

• ▪ the Constitution

• ▪ twenty-seven (27)

• ▪ sets up the government

• ▪ defines the government

3. The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words?

• ▪ protects basic rights of Americans

• ▪ We the People

• ▪ twenty-seven (27)

• ▪ sets up the government

• ▪ defines the government

4. What is an amendment?

• ▪ We the People

• ▪ sets up the government

• ▪ defines the government

• ▪ a change (to the Constitution)

• ▪ an addition (to the Constitution)

7. How many amendments does the Constitution have?

• ▪ We the People

• ▪ sets up the government

• ▪ defines the government

• ▪ twenty-seven (27)

• ▪ an addition (to the Constitution)

5. What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?

• ▪ the Bill of Rights

• ▪ sets up the government

• ▪ defines the government

• ▪ a change (to the Constitution)

• ▪ an addition (to the Constitution)

6. What are the right or freedom from the First Amendment?*

• speech, religion & assembly

• press

• petition the government

• ▪ an addition (to the Constitution)

8. What did the Declaration of Independence do?

• speech, religion & assembly

• press

• petition the government

• ▪ an addition (to the Constitution)

• ▪ announced our independence (from Great Britain)

9. What the rights in the Declaration of Independence?

• speech, religion & assembly.

• press.

• petition the government.

• an addition (to the Constitution).

• life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.

10. What is freedom of religion?

• speech, religion & assembly.

• ▪ You can practice any religion, or not practice a religion.

• petition the government.

• an addition (to the Constitution).

• life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.