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Here are the answers based on your questions: 1. **How can the executive branch check the power of the legislative branch?** - **Answer:** veto legislation 2. **How did the courts get the power of judicial review?** - **Answer:** through the Marbury v. Madison decision 3. **How may an amendment to the Constitution be proposed?** - **Answer:** a two-thirds vote of Congress 4. **How has Congress clarified the meaning of the Constitution?** - **Answer:** by passing laws to help explain it 5. **Which unwritten custom did the 22nd Amendment establish as law?** - **Answer:** limiting a President to two terms 6. **Which is a method by which an amendment to the Constitution can be ratified?** - **Answer:** by three-fourths of the state legislatures 7. **In what way is the formal amendment process an example of federalism at work?** - **Answer:** Proposal is at the national level; ratification is state-by-state. 8. **What is the subject of the first three articles of the Constitution?** - **Answer:** Congress, the presidency, and federal courts 9. **What does federalism mean?** - **Answer:** that power is divided among a national government and the states 10. **What power that is not specifically stated in the Constitution did the Supreme Court claim for itself in the case of Marbury v. Madison in 1803?** - **Answer:** judicial review 11. **AMENDMENT MATCHING:** (Matching the descriptions to their amendments) - **Protection from self-incrimination:** Fifth Amendment (I plead the FIF). - **The freedom amendment:** First Amendment (freedom of religion, assembly, press, petition, and speech). - **The right to bear arms:** Second Amendment. - **The right to a jury trial in a criminal case:** Sixth Amendment (right to question witnesses against you, and the right to a lawyer). - **Gives citizenship to all persons born or naturalized:** Fourteenth Amendment (and guarantees "equal protection of the laws"). - **Any powers not given to the federal government or the people are reserved for the states:** Tenth Amendment. - **Women’s suffrage:** Nineteenth Amendment. - **Just because the right isn't listed in the Constitution doesn't mean that we don't have it:** Ninth Amendment. 12. **Which basic principle of the Constitution means that government can govern only with the consent of the governed?** - **Answer:** popular sovereignty 13. **The system that allows each branch of the Federal Government to restrain the other two branches is called** - **Answer:** checks and balances. 14. **How is the Constitution organized?** - **Answer:** a Preamble, 7 articles, and 27 amendments 15. **Why did the Framers leave some sections of the Constitution without detail, like an outline?** - **Answer:** They wanted to keep the Constitution flexible, allowing for changing times. 16. **Most resolutions calling for amendments that are proposed in Congress** - **Answer:** never make it to the States. 17. **Presidents sometimes send forces into combat without a formal declaration of war from Congress. Presidents do this under what constitutional authority?** - **Answer:** through their power as commander in chief 18. **The Bill of Rights is a list of** - **Answer:** basic freedoms and rights. 19. **Six constitutional amendments have been proposed and sent to the States but not ratified. Which issue was addressed by an unratified amendment?** - **Answer:** equal rights of women 20. **Match each term to the correct definition:** (Matching the terms to their definitions) - **Changes to the written language of the Constitution:** Amendments. - **Lowered the voting age to 18:** 26th Amendment. - **Abolished slavery in the U.S.:** 13th Amendment. - **State-by-State approval of a Constitutional amendment:** Ratification. - **The first ten amendments listing the basic rights held by the people:** Bill of Rights. - **Formally selects the President and Vice President:** Electoral College. Feel free to ask if you need more details or explanations!