1. Civics Final Review #2
Do your best on the test!!

2. ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
Provided weak national government
Couldn’t deal with economic or political problems of the country

3. PREAMBLE OF THE CONSTITUTION
Purposes:
Defend country from enemies
Promote welfare of citizens
Insure order and peace

4. CHECKS AND BALANCES Examples:
Legislative branch approving/denying judge appointments
Supreme Court declaring laws passed by Congress Unconstitutional
Presidential veto
Senate approving Supreme Court justice
Judicial Review-(Courts determine constitutionality of laws)

5. PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT
Executive branch can be forced from office for failing to win legislature’s support on a major issue

6. FULL FAITH AND CREDIT CLAUSE
States must honor legality of other state’s civil laws

7. NECESSARY AND PROPER CLAUSE
Allow Congress to pass any laws needed to carry out any expressed power

8. DUE PROCESS CLAUSE
State and National Government will govern without interfering with constitutional rights of individuals

9. NOTABLE AMENDMENTS
25th- Vice President takes over is President is disables
13th-Forbids slavery and most forms of involuntary servitude
4th- Forbids unreasonable searches and seizures
6th-Speedy and fair trial to try accused with undue delay and avoid secret trials

10. NOTABLE AMENDMENTS CONT.
17th- Direct election of senators rather than by appointment of state legislatures
14th- Person can become an American citizen by birth or naturalization

11. TREASON Only crime specifically defined in Constitution
Betrayal of one’s country

12. ROE V. WADE Based on privacy in the 9th amendment
Upheld a woman’s right to choose on issue of abortion

13. DRED SCOTT V. SANDFORD
Ruled parts of Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
Slaves were property not citizens
Could not sue in U.S. Court System

14. TEXAS V. JOHNSON
Burning of American flag is a form of symbolic speech and therefore protected by Constitution