The Three Branches
This branch of government, headed by the President, is responsible for enforcing laws.
Executive
What is the Bill of Rights?
The first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution
This man is the current president of the United States
Who is Donald Trump
The Capital of the United States
Washington DC
This is the highest court in the United States.
What is the Supreme Court?
This body of Congress has 100 members, serving six-year terms, with two representatives from each state.
Senate
What is Article I?
Establishes the Legislative Branch of the federal government.
This person was the only president to be elected unanimously.
George Washington
This state is known as, "the Empire State"
New York
This term means a law is consistent with the Constitution.
What is constitutional?
The Constitution grants this specific power to the House of Representatives to formally charge a president with misconduct.
Impeachment
This highly controversial 1787 constitutional agreement determined that three out of every five enslaved individuals would be counted for both taxation and a state's representation in the House of Representatives.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
These are the first four states to have their caucuses or primaries.
What are Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina.
This state is the only one in the U.S. that is bordered by two completely different oceans—the Arctic Ocean to its north and the Pacific Ocean to its south and west.
Alaska
This is the head judge of the Supreme Court.
What is the Chief Justice?
This constitutional mechanism prevents any one branch of government from becoming too powerful.
Checks and balances
This compromise at the Constitutional Convention created a two-house Congress.
What is the Great Compromise?
This president earned national fame for beating native americans and is also the shortest serving president
William Henry Harrison
This city has been the capital of Kentucky since 1792, the same year Kentucky became the 15th state admitted to the Union. It is located along the Kentucky River and is one of the smallest state capitals in the United States.
Frankfort
This power allows courts to declare laws unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
THERE ARE 2 QUESTIONS HERE ..... (1) Explain why the constitution has a system of checks and balances and (2) give a way the Executive Branch can limit the power of the Legislative Branch or Judicial Branch?
1) To guard against any one branch becoming too powerful and
(2) the Executive can veto laws made by the Legislative Branch and appoint the judges of the Supreme Court (Judicial Branch)
This amendment restricts the government from forcing citizens to house military personnel in their private homes.
This man is the 21st president of the United States
Chester Arthur
Name 3 former territories of the united states
Phillippines, Panama Canal zone, Palau
This is the process the Supreme Court uses to choose cases.
What is writ of certiorari?