Legislative
The two houses of Congress.
What is the Senate and the House of Representatives?
The person who runs the Executive Branch.
Who is the President?
The highest court in the Judicial Branch.
What is the Supreme Court?
The group of people who created the Constitution.
Who are the Founding Founders?
The three branches of government.
What are Legislative, Executive, and Judicial?
The total number of members in BOTH houses of Congress.
What is 535 members?
The total number of years you have to have lived in U.S to be the President.
What is 14 years?
The number of Justices in the Supreme Court.
What is 9?
The fist 10 amendments of the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
He is considered to be the main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The House of Congress that acts as a jury during impeachment cases.
What is the Senate?
One of the roles of the President that gives them the authority over the military.
What is the Commander in Chief ?
The process a petitioner must go through to reach the Supreme Court.
What is the Appeals Process?
The city in which the Constitutional Convention was held.
What is Philadelphia?
The court case that established Judicial Review.
What is Marbury vs. Madison?
A committee whose members are from two or more different organizations, or from both chambers of a bicameral legislative body.
What is a joint committee?
The Amendment that limits the President to 2 terms.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
The number of cases the Supreme Court ACCEPTS annually.
What is 150 cases?
Powers that the Constitution does not grant to the National Government and does not deny to the states.
What are Reserved Powers?
The number of members in a cabinet.
What is 16?
A group of people or an organization seeking or receiving special advantages, typically through political lobbying.
What is a special interest group?
A body of people representing the states of the US, who formally cast votes for the election of the president and vice president
What is Electoral College ?
The only person who has served as President and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Who is William Howard Taft?
Powers that state and federal governments share
What are Concurrent Powers?
The English philosopher who was admired by Thomas Jefferson.