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Missouri Government EOC Review
Study Guide Solutions
1st Amendment - Ans:✔✔-Freedoms of religion, speech, assembly, press, petition, & assembly
2nd Amendment - Ans:✔✔-Right to bear arms; militia is necessary for a free state
3rd Amendment - Ans:✔✔-Housing of soldiers
4th Amendment - Ans:✔✔-No unreasonable search or arrest
5th Amendment - Ans:✔✔-No person tried without grand jury indictment or punished twice for same
offense. Due process of law.
6th Amendment - Ans:✔✔-Rights of accused in criminal cases.
7th Amendment - Ans:✔✔-Trial by jury.
8th Amendment - Ans:✔✔-No excessive bail or cruel punishment.
9th Amendment - Ans:✔✔-People retain rights not listed in the Constitution.
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10th Amendment - Ans:✔✔-Power not given to the federal government is given to the people or states.
(Very important for state governments.)
Bill of Rights - Ans:✔✔-First Ten Amendments
13th Amendment - Ans:✔✔-Abolish Slavery
15th Amendment - Ans:✔✔-Gave African Americans right to vote
17th Amendment - Ans:✔✔-Senators elected by direct population. (In the past, Senators were elected by
state legislators.)
18th Amendment - Ans:✔✔-Prohibition--no alcoholic beverages bought or sold in United States
19th Amendment - Ans:✔✔-Women's Right to Vote
21st Amendment - Ans:✔✔-Repealed Prohibition
22nd Amendment - Ans:✔✔-2 term limit on Presidents
24th Amendment - Ans:✔✔-Poll taxes cannot prevent voting rights
26th Amendment - Ans:✔✔-Lowered voting age to 18 from 21
Amendment process - Ans:✔✔-Changing the Constitution--
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Proposing Amendment - Ans:✔✔-2/3 vote of each house of Congress or national constitutional
convention requested by 2/3 of state legislatures
Ratifying (approving amendment) - Ans:✔✔-ratified by at least 3/4 of the state legislatures or by
specially called conventions in at least 3/4 of the states
due process - Ans:✔✔-5th amendment--principle stating the government must follow proper
constitutional procedures in trials and in other actions it takes against individuals
Enlightenment - Ans:✔✔-movement during the 1700s that spread the idea that knowledge, reason, and
science could improve society; influenced American revolutionaries and founders
Jean Jacques Rouseau - Ans:✔✔-Enlightenment thinker who wrote Social Contract and promoted
government in which laws should only be made by the people (general will)
Natural Rights - Ans:✔✔-freedoms people posses relating to life, liberty, and property
John Locke - Ans:✔✔-Enlightenment thinkers--philosopher, natural rights and social contract theory
Second Treaties of Government - Ans:✔✔-John Locke argued government's only purpose was to defend
the natural rights of life, liberty, and property and that government were a product of the people
(consent of the governed)
Monarchy - Ans:✔✔-A system of government in which as hereditary king or queen is the legislative and
executive authority; today, most monarchies are limited
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FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024
Missouri Government EOC Review
Study Guide Solutions
1st Amendment - Ans:✔✔-Freedoms of religion, speech, assembly, press, petition, & assembly
2nd Amendment - Ans:✔✔-Right to bear arms; militia is necessary for a free state
3rd Amendment - Ans:✔✔-Housing of soldiers
4th Amendment - Ans:✔✔-No unreasonable search or arrest
5th Amendment - Ans:✔✔-No person tried without grand jury indictment or punished twice for same
offense. Due process of law.
6th Amendment - Ans:✔✔-Rights of accused in criminal cases.
7th Amendment - Ans:✔✔-Trial by jury.
8th Amendment - Ans:✔✔-No excessive bail or cruel punishment.
9th Amendment - Ans:✔✔-People retain rights not listed in the Constitution.
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10th Amendment - Ans:✔✔-Power not given to the federal government is given to the people or states.
(Very important for state governments.)
Bill of Rights - Ans:✔✔-First Ten Amendments
13th Amendment - Ans:✔✔-Abolish Slavery
15th Amendment - Ans:✔✔-Gave African Americans right to vote
17th Amendment - Ans:✔✔-Senators elected by direct population. (In the past, Senators were elected by
state legislators.)
18th Amendment - Ans:✔✔-Prohibition--no alcoholic beverages bought or sold in United States
19th Amendment - Ans:✔✔-Women's Right to Vote
21st Amendment - Ans:✔✔-Repealed Prohibition
22nd Amendment - Ans:✔✔-2 term limit on Presidents
24th Amendment - Ans:✔✔-Poll taxes cannot prevent voting rights
26th Amendment - Ans:✔✔-Lowered voting age to 18 from 21
Amendment process - Ans:✔✔-Changing the Constitution--
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Proposing Amendment - Ans:✔✔-2/3 vote of each house of Congress or national constitutional
convention requested by 2/3 of state legislatures
Ratifying (approving amendment) - Ans:✔✔-ratified by at least 3/4 of the state legislatures or by
specially called conventions in at least 3/4 of the states
due process - Ans:✔✔-5th amendment--principle stating the government must follow proper
constitutional procedures in trials and in other actions it takes against individuals
Enlightenment - Ans:✔✔-movement during the 1700s that spread the idea that knowledge, reason, and
science could improve society; influenced American revolutionaries and founders
Jean Jacques Rouseau - Ans:✔✔-Enlightenment thinker who wrote Social Contract and promoted
government in which laws should only be made by the people (general will)
Natural Rights - Ans:✔✔-freedoms people posses relating to life, liberty, and property
John Locke - Ans:✔✔-Enlightenment thinkers--philosopher, natural rights and social contract theory
Second Treaties of Government - Ans:✔✔-John Locke argued government's only purpose was to defend
the natural rights of life, liberty, and property and that government were a product of the people
(consent of the governed)
Monarchy - Ans:✔✔-A system of government in which as hereditary king or queen is the legislative and
executive authority; today, most monarchies are limited
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