Constitution Amendment Extra Credit (Due Tuesday, Feb 16)

Amendment Extra Credit Worksheet

NOTICE: To receive Extra Credit points, questions must be answered with a complete sentence. At the end of each answer, you must give the location (Amendment, section, and paragraph number, page) where you found it. Work is due when you enter class on Tuesday. The answers are found within the writings of the United States Constitution. Many of these questions are challenging and will require effort to find accurate answers. You are required to answer 20 out of the 25 questions in order to receive extra credit.

How many times has the Constitution been amended?

What do we call the first 10 amendments?

Three different groups of people have been granted the right to vote by three different Amendments. Who are these three groups of people?

Is there any limit on your right to free speech? What is it?

What is the meaning of the 1st Amendment phrase "petition the government for a redress of grievances"?

What two things must be named or described by all search warrants:

Define and/or explain each of the "Rights of an accused person" that are protected by Amendment 5.

Define and/or explain each of the requirements governing criminal proceedings from Amendment 6.

Amendments 5 and 14 both discuss due process. Who, or what, may not deprive any person of "life, liberty, or property without due process of law"? (two answers, one for each amendment)

What is the one exception to the prohibition of involuntary servitude?

What is the definition of a U. S. citizen?

Article I provides that U.S. Senators be appointed by State legislatures. How did an amendment change this provision?

There is only one case of a Constitutional amendment later being totally repealed by another Amendment. What was the subject of these two amendments?

What day is designated as the END of a Presidential term?

Congress is required to meet at least how often?

What are the limits of a Presidential term of office?

What is the process for filling a vacancy in the office of Vice President?

If the President-elect dies before taking office, who will become the new President?

Amendment 12 directs that in a Presidential election, the electoral votes from each State will be counted by the President of the Senate in the presence of the combined membership of the Senate and the House of Representatives. If no candidate for President receives a majority of the electoral votes, who chooses the new President?

If no candidate for Vice President receives a majority of the electoral votes, who chooses the new Vice President?

If the people responsible for choosing the new President cannot make a choice, who will become the new President?

What happens when the President informs the President pro-tem and the Speaker of the House that he is unable to perform his duties?

Some people argue that the federal income tax is illegal because it violates a provision in Article I. If they had lived in the 1800’s they would have been right but now they are wrong. Why?

Through most of our history, residents of Washington, D. C. could not vote for President or Vice President. Now they can. Explain.

What must happen before a pay raise for members of Congress can take effect?