Three Branches of Government
What is the Executive Branch?
The President uses this power to reject a bill passed by Congress.
What is a veto?
What is nine?
This is minimum voting age.
What is 18?
This is a predictable weakness in the way we think.
What is cognitive bias?
This branch of government passes bills and can impeach the President.
What is the Legislative Branch (congress)?
Congress can override a presidential veto with this fraction of a vote in both houses.
What is a two-thirds majority?
Supreme Court Justices and all federal court judges hold their offices for this amount of time.
What is for life?
The official group of electors that cast the formal votes to select the President and Vice President of the United States.
What is the Electoral College?
False or inaccurate information.
What is misinformation?
This branch of government decides whether laws are constitutional.
What is the Judicial Branch (the courts)?
Only this branch has the constitutional power to declare war.
What is the Legislative Branch (Congress)?
This is the total number of Justices on the Supreme Court?
What is 9?
These are elections held halfway through a president's four-year term, where all House seats and one-third of Senate seats are up for election.
What are midterm elections?
The tendency to search for and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs.
What is confirmation bias?
What is 6 years?
Federal judges are nominated by the President, but they must be confirmed by this body.
What is the U.S. Senate?
This is the amount of Justices appointed by a Republican president.
What is 6?
Minnesotans aged 16 or 17 can take this step to be automatically registered to vote when they turn 18.
What is pre-registering to vote?
The tendency to focus on information that is easy to remember.
What is Availability Bias?
This position serves as the head of the state executive branch in Minnesota.
Who is the Governor?
This body of Congress holds the power of the purse.
What is the U.S. House?
Who is the current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
Who is John Roberts?
This many electoral votes is required to be elected President.
What is 270?
Being able to consider explanations beyond your first reaction.
What is cognitive flexibility?