Business Law Chapter 2

Although representatives make day-to-day governmental decisions the sovereign powers ultimately is held by the people

The Nineteenth Amendment clarified the voting rights of what group of U.S. citizens?

The division and appropriation of U.S. governmental powers between its various branches is known as checks and balances

Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery?

A right vital to the protection of all the others, the right of safety

The Amendment _____ grants state powers?

Which of the following cases did NOT have a role in evolving a standard for what was and was not obscene?

We are protected from self-incrimination with Amendment _______? 

The right retained by the people is Amendment ______? 

How many Amendments are in the Bill of Rights _______?

The Articles of Confederation allows the last four states to ratify the constitutuion

Under the Constitution, our federal government is a

The first amendment grants what five freedoms?

Amendment _____ prohibits cruel and unusual punishment?

Personal, natural rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution are known as

Which of these document is NOT considered basis of the U.S. Bill of Rights?

When the Constitution was declared effective and binding on March 4, 1789, only ________ state had ratified it.

How many total amendments are there?

The groundwork for the internet was laid in the late 1960s during the Cold War by the U.S. Department of Defense

Amendment _____ grants the right of criminal court procedures?

The U.S. Constitution provided that persons may not be deprived of the following without due process of law:

The first step in amending the U.S. Constitution is _____.

If convicted under due process of law, a criminal may be deprived of