This Amendment prohibits abuse of governmental authority in legal procedures. Establishes rules for indictment by eminent domain and grand jury. Guarantees the due process rights. Protects citizens from self-incrimination and double jeopardy.

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This Amendment reserves individuals’ rights to jury trial depending on the civil case, and cases already examined by not be re-opened by another court.

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This Amendment reserves powers that are not given to the U.S. government under the Constitution, nor prohibited to a State of the U.S., to the people and the States.

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This Amendment guarantees the people’s right to own and bear arms for their defense.

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This Amendment reserves the rights of citizens which are not specifically mentioned by the U.S. Constitution.

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This Amendment forbids exorbitant bails and fines and punishment that is unusual or cruel.

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This Amendment guarantees the right to the freedoms of speech, press, and religion. Protects the right to petition the government.

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This Amendment guarantees citizens cannot be forced to subject themselves to seizure and search without a search warrant and probable cause.

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This Amendment guarantees citizens cannot be forced to quarter soldiers during times of peace.

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This Amendment denies any laws that vary the salaries of Congress members until the beginning of the next terms of office for Representatives.

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This Amendment limits the terms that an individual can be elected as president (at most two terms). Individuals who have served over two years of someone else’s term may not be elected more than once.

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This Amendment establishes date of term starts for Congress (January 3) & the President (January 20); also known as the “lame duck amendment.”

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This Amendment reserves the right for citizens 18 and older to vote.

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This Amendment establishes the procedures for a successor of a President.

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This Amendment establishes popular voting as the process under which senators are elected.

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This Amendment forbids forced-slavery and involuntary servitude except as punishment for criminal offense.

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This Amendment states citizens cannot be denied the suffrage rights for not paying a poll tax or any other taxes.

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This Amendment reserves the right of citizens residing in the District of Columbia to vote for their own Electors for presidential elections.

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This Amendment details the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. State laws over alcohol are to remain.

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This Amendment modifies and clarifies the procedure for electing vice-presidents and presidents.

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This Amendment reserves the U.S. government the right to tax income.

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This Amendment reserves women’s suffrage rights.

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This Amendment details the Equal Protection Clause, Due Process Clause, Citizenship Clause, and clauses dealing with the Confederacy and its officials.

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This Amendment gives states sovereign immunity. States are protected from suits by citizens living in another state or foreigners that do not reside within the state borders.

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This Amendment denies the sale and consumption of alcohol.

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This Amendment reserves citizens the suffrage rights regardless of their race, color, or previous slave status.

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The United States government is this form of government, directed by a written framework of rules and run by officials elected by the public.

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He is one of America's first political scientists, an engineer, as well as a philosopher, and an avid researcher of the most pressing political questions of his era. His nickname is 'Father of the American Constitution' based on his work to write the USA's Constitution.

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From Greek demos meaning  “people,'' and kratos meaning “power”

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Adopted by the Second Continental Congress in 1777 and ratified in 1781, it created a union of sovereign states in which the states, not the national government, were supreme. By 1786 this framework for government was facing serious issues. 

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This was a grass-roots popular uprising against the Massachusetts state government and such a big problem that it would eventually reach other states as well. This crisis added to the sense of urgency in America about how to replace the structure of the Articles. 

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This created a Bicameral Government. The House of Representatives would be chosen according to the state's population (Proportion). The Senate would be equal with 2 Senators chosen from each state (Equal).

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This concept imbedded in the Constitution ensured each branch has powers that can prevent the other branch from making policy. 

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This meeting looked to fix two big issues with the US government, representation and division of power.

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The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

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These are federal moneys provided to states to implement public policy objectives. A good example of this would be the fish hatchery the school is doing. 

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Locke argued people are born with these that kings cannot take away. These include life, liberty, and property. 

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This determined that a slave (called an “other person” in the Constitution) would count as three fifths of a person for counting representation despite the fact they could not vote.

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The delegates tried to make sure that no one branch could become too powerful on its own by incorporating this into assigning power. This concept was widely supported by delegates at the convention and well known to those who had studied the writings of Baron de Montesquieu.

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These are powers that are left to the states under the 10th Amendment.

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The purpose of the Legislative Branch is to legislate, or to make laws. They have expressed or enumerated powers as well as this if they need to make any new laws. 

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Making Changes to the Constitution is known as this. The founders new changes would need to be made in the future, so they made changing the Constitution a two step process.

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Power is divided between the states and the national government. Each level of government retains some exclusive power and has some powers denied to it.

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Proposed by philosopher John Locke, an agreement among people in a a society to abide by agreed-upon laws and accept punishments; people agree to sacrifice some liberty in order to gain some protection.

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This provides greater power at state- and local-levels than in countries with strong central governments.

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