Amendments
This amendment contains the word "militia"
What is the Second?
This clause was designed to make the U.S. a free trade zone
What is the "commerce clause"?
Roger Taney said that to end slavery, the Constitution would have to be ___.
What is amended?
He said that those southerners who owned slaves could keep them if they returned to the union
Who is Lincoln?
What nearly all government schools teach was the reason for the North/South War
What is "to end slavery"?
CATEGORY:
TAXATION
In the Supreme Court case McCulloch v. Maryland, Justice John Marshall said that "the power to tax is the power to ___."
This amendment prohibits the taking of life, liberty, or property without "due process"
What is the Fifth?
This is one reason that secession is constitutional
What is "Article I Section 8 doesn't give the U.S. gov't power to stop it," "Article I Section 10 doesn't prohibit states from seceding," "the Ninth Amendment says there are many rights the U.S. gov't can't touch besides the ones in the Bill of Rights," or "the Tenth Amendment says the only powers the U.S. gov't has are the ones listed."
The Thirteenth Amendment prohibits "slavery [and] involuntary ___."
What is "servitude"?
One of the two Northern generals mentioned in the book who wantonly destroyed southern property during the North/South War
Who are Sheridan or Sherman?
This state was illegally formed during the North/South War
What is West Virginia?
This amendment is related to the Zenger trial
What is the First?
Thomas Jefferson anonymously wrote the ___ Resolutions to protest the Alien and Sedition Acts.
What is "Kentucky"?
The Emancipation Proclamation weakened the desire of the nations of ___ and ___ to join forces with the South.
What are England and France?
The Sixteenth Amendment was passed after government officials promised that only these people would ever pay an income tax
Who are "the wealthy"?
Roger Taney's most famous court case
What was Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This amendment says there are endless additional rights that the U.S. government may not violate
What is the Ninth?
This is the word for the person whose rights the Sixth Amendment protects (not just U.S. citizens!)
What is "the accused"?
Indirect taxes on items like tobacco and alcohol are called ___ taxes.
What are "excise"?
Famous British author who said that the North/South War was about nothing more than money
Who was Charles Dickens?
Many argue that this action taken by the U.S. military violates the Thirteenth Amendment
What is the draft?
This amendment prohibits "unreasonable searches and seizures"
What is the Fourth?
This clause often is twisted by some politicians to include anything that benefits a specific group of Americans
What is the "general welfare clause"?
A ___ tax is one in which the more a person makes, the higher percentage he pays.
What is "progressive"?
An originally proposed Thirteenth Amendment was named after this Congressman
Who is Corwin?
Two-word term for new territories/states deciding whether or not they would allow slavery
What is popular sovereignty?