Constitution Terms

John Neal

Term: Amendment

1. The Bill of Rights is the first ten of these, listed in the constitution?

2. A statement of such an alteration or addition?

3. The first ten of these were made in 1787?

Prohibition

1. The period (1920-1933) during which involved the 18th Amendment?

2. The forbidding by law of the manufacture, transportation, sale, and possession of alcoholic beverages?

3. The Twenty-first Amendment repealed this?

Lame Duck

1. An elected official who has lost a reelection, but continues to hold office until the successor's inauguration?

2. The term originated in the 1700s regarding stockbrokers who could not meet their debts, and then transferred to politicians in the 1860?

3. The twentieth amendment covers this term?

E.R.A

1. First introduced into Congress in 1923?

2. Affirms that both women and men hold equally all of the rights guaranteed by the U. S. Constitution.?

3. Is still not part of the U.S. Constitution?

Suffrage

1. This term means the right to vote?

2. Franchise is the other meaning for the term?

3. White Male land owners were the first people to have this right in the United States?

Marbury vs. Madison

1. Established the power of judicial review in the U.S. Supreme Court?

2. A case decided by the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Marshall in 1803?

3. Involved a last minute appointment by President John Adams of William Marbury to the District of Columbia's Justice of the Peace?

Poll Tax

1. Deprived many blacks as well as poor whites, because payment of the tax was a requirement for voting?

2. In 1964 the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution disallowed it?

3. In 1966 this prohibition was extended to all elections by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that such a tax violated the 14th Amendment to the Constitution?

Excise Tax

1. Taxes paid when purchases

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