Know it by heart
Practice a few lines worth remembering. Read it, try it with only first letters, then put it in order. Nothing is saved.
Three sentences that protect you
If police question you, these are the words to know cold. From Being questioned by police.
I am exercising my right to remain silent. I want a lawyer. Am I being detained, or am I free to leave?
The five freedoms
The First Amendment protects five things. Say them in order. From First Amendment.
Religion, speech, the press, peaceful assembly, and petitioning the government.
The Preamble
The one-sentence mission statement of the Constitution. From Preamble.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The First Amendment
Forty-five words. Worth knowing by heart. From First Amendment.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The three branches
Who makes, carries out, and judges the law. From The three branches path.
Congress makes the laws (Article I). The President carries out the laws (Article II). The courts decide what the laws mean (Article III).