2. 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt DefinitionsGeneral Branches of Government Bill of Rights Important Terms 1 pt

3. Another word for “approve.”

4. What is ratify?

5. Another word for “changes.”

6. What are amendments?

7. When people have the right to a fair public trial to be decided by a jury.

8. What is due process of law?

9. Citizens who favored the Constitution

10. Who were the Federalists?

11. This charter was granted by the King of England in 1215.

12. What was the Magna Carta?

13. Name of country that we declared our freedom from

14. What was England?

15. Year that the Declaration of Independence was written

16. What is 1776?

17. Form of government in which people elect representatives to govern

18. What is a Republic?

19. Place where Articles of Confederation were written

20. What is Philadelphia?

21. Number of branches of government

22. What is 3?

23. Fair public trial to be decided by a jury

24. What is the Fifth Amendment?

25. Group of people who make our nation’s laws

26. What is Congress?

27. Branch of government that makes our nation’s laws

28. What is the Legislative Branch?

29. Branch of government that carries out our nation’s laws

30. What is the Executive Branch?

31. Branch of government that handles disagreements over the law

32. What is the Judicial Branch?

33. Rights listed in the First amendment

34. What are Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, Freedom of the press, Freedom of assembly?

35. Second Amendment

36. What is the Right to Bear Arms?

37. The right that is violated when you are put in jail because police see something suspicious in your yard

38. What is freedom from illegal search & seizure?

39. Soldiers come and take your house so that they can live in it

40. What is Quartering?

41. You are sent to jail for 50 years for stealing a pen

42. What is excessive punishment?