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What Amendments from the Constitution affect me?

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What Amendments from the Constitution affect me?

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Amendments of the Constitution are what protect your rights as a citizen of the United States. A few important ones that impact your everyday life include freedom of religion, freedom of speech, protection against unreasonable search, and slavery being against the law. There are many more amendments other than these few, but they will most likely affect you when you're an adult.

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What if the other two branches don't like a law the legislative branch created? The executive and judicial branches can overrule the law by using something called a "veto".  This way, the three branches all have equal power. For example, the executive branch could veto bills from the legislative branch, but the legislative branch can override that veto.

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The judicial branch is made up of the Supreme Court and other federal courts. Their responsibility is to apply laws to individual cases and decide if laws go against the Constitution.

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The executive branch is the President. The President is responsible for enforcing laws that the legislative branch has created, and the commander-in-chief for the armed forces.

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The legislative branch is made up of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The legislative branch is responsible for creating and approving the laws that our country follows.

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The separation of powers is a political belief that the legislative, executive, and judicial powers in our government should be split into different jobs. This way, nobody has too much power in our government.

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The six goals of the Constitution were to become a more perfect union, create fairness for all, keep peace in our nation, maintain a military, encourage happiness, and to protect the freedom of Americans.

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Before the Constitution, there was a document called the Articles of Confederation. Since the Articles of Confederation didn't give the government much power, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison,  John Adams and Thomas Jefferson wrote the Constitution with laws that better suited them

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Welcome to a Children's Guide to the Constitution!

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Welcome to a Children's Guide to the Constitution!

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Did you ever wonder why the Constitution was created or who is in charge of creating the laws? We'll go over that and more in this quick informational padlet!