The US Constitution

What is in this deck

With this deck you learn the Constitution of the United States: every article and all twenty-seven amendments.

Four sheets of parchment from 1787, and the shortest constitution still in force anywhere. Everything the federal government may do stands in it; everything else stays with the states or with you.

132 cards go through it in order: the Preamble, the three branches in the three articles that create them, the clauses that hold them apart, and then all 27 amendments from the Bill of Rights to the pay raise that took 202 years to ratify.

Where the wording matters, the answer quotes it. Where a case made the clause mean something, the note names the case: Marbury, Gideon, Brown, Miranda. The text is in the public domain, and so is every word quoted here.

The categories decide what comes up: start with “Amendments 11 to 27” alone and add the rest when you are ready.

What you learn

• Every article, clause by clause, in plain questions
• The Bill of Rights, amendment by amendment
• All 27 amendments and what each one changed
• Checks and balances: who can stop whom, and how
• The cases that gave the clauses their meaning

The categories

7 categories sort the 132 cards. You can filter by category and take on what is due right now.

1. Amendments 11 to 27
2. Article I: Congress
3. Article II: The President
4. Article III: The Courts
5. Articles IV to VII
6. The Bill of Rights
7. The Preamble

Where the content comes from

The cards follow The Constitution of the United States, transcription, published by U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. As of Zusatzartikel 27 von 1992.

Learning with Qardbox

You see a card, you think, you turn it over and say whether you knew it. A round asks nothing more of you, and how the app works out the next date from that is on the page about FSRS-6.

What sits comes back less often, what wobbles comes back soon. You set a daily goal, and when nothing is due the app tells you exactly that instead of inventing work for you. How a round goes is shown on the learning page.

Everything stays on your device. No account, no sign-up, no ads. After the purchase the deck sits in your library like any other subject and can be studied, reordered and extended just like your own.

What it costs, and what it doesn’t

Qardbox itself costs nothing, and it stays that way. Every function is there from the start, with no subscription, no ads and no tiers; what that rests on is on the page about what it costs.

Your own cards stay unlimited, and decks from friends or from the family you read in without a limit, from a file as well. You do not need this deck in order to learn with Qardbox.

It is a shortcut: 132 checked cards for €1.29, once, with Family Sharing. The work you would otherwise do is already done. The App Store shows the price in your currency.