Citizenship and Important Documents
The Amendment that grants citizenship
What is the 14th Amendment?
What is the legislative branch?
The two major political parties in the U.S.
What are Republicans and Democrats?
The VA state legislature
What is the General Assembly?
The Supreme Court's power to look at any local, state, or federal law to see if it is Constitutional.
What is Judicial Review?
The process by which immigrants become citizens
What is naturalization?
The branch that enforces the laws.
What is the executive branch?
Congress can override a presidential veto with this much of the vote
What is 2/3?
The term that describes a system of government in which the federal government has the most powers but reserves some powers for the state government
What is federalism?
The authority of a court to hear a case for the first time.
What is Original Jurisdiction?
The five First Amendment rights.
What are freedom of speech, freedom of petition, freedom of assembly, freedom of press, and freedom of religion?
A term that describes how each branch limits the power of the other branches
What is "checks and balances?"
The body that officially elects the President and Vice President
What is the electoral college?
The name for a local law
The authority of a court to hear a case on appeal from a lower court.
What is Appellate Jurisdiction?
The document that made America independent from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
What are the House of Representatives and Senate?
A group that tries to influence or pressure the government to make public policy and laws about specific issues
What is an interest group?
The body with legislative powers at the local, county level
What is a Board of Supervisors?
The level of evidence needed to make an arrest or obtain a search warrant
What is probable cause?
What is the document that is the supreme law of the land that sets up the structure of American government?
What is the Constitution?
The word for when there are two chambers of the legislature.
What are PACs/Super PACs?
The title of the person next in line after the governor
Who is the Lieutenant Governor?
This amendment guarantees the right to due process in federal courts
What is the 5th Amendment?