Benchmark Review: CE.2,3,5

The first ten amendments to the US Constitution protect individual rights and freedoms. These ten amendments are known as the...

• Amendments

• Declaration of Rights

• Bill of Rights

This expresses why the Constitution was written, as well as acts the introduction to the Constitution.

• Bill of Rights
• Preamble
• Declaration of Rigths

What is the two step process for amending the US Constitution.

• Step Two: Ratification by 3/4 states

• Step Two: Ratification by voters

• Step One: Proposal by 2/3 Congress

• Step One: Proposal by 2/3 of the General Assembly

Which document was America's first attempt at self government and did not work!

• Articles of Confederation

• US Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

What document will give Englishmen rights and also for the very first time, make the king follow the rules?

• Charters of the Virginia Company of London
• US Constitution
• Declaration of Rights
• Magna Carta

We elect people to make laws and run the government on our behalf. Which principle is this?

• Rule of Law

• Representative Gov't

• Democracy

Citizens rule! What principle is this?

• Consent of the Governed

• Rule of Law

• Democracy

Choose the two ways to gain United States citizenship.

• Birth

• Immigration

• Naturalization

• Payment

Which amendment defines citizenship?

• 14th

• 5th

• 1st

• 15th

Choose each civic duty.

• voting

• serving on a jury

• paying taxes

• participate in political campaigns