Constitution
The supreme law of the land in the United States
What is the Constitution?
The number of amendments the U.S. Constitution currently has
What is 27?
Makes up the Executive Branch
Who is the President?
The number of Supreme Court justices.
What is 9?
The person who steps in if the President can no longer serve
Who is the Vice-president?
Number of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court
What is 9?
The first 3 words of the Constitution, which capture the idea of self-government
What are, "We the People?"
The branch of government established in Article I of the Constitution that deals with creating laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
Who has the ability to make federal laws
Who are Congress?
What is the Legislative branch?
The number of years a U.S. president is elected for
What are 4 years?
Signs bills to become laws
Who is the President?
Current Vice President
Who is Kamala Harris?
An addition or change to the Constitution
What is an amendment?
The branch established in Article II of the Constitution as the one to carry out the laws.
What is the executive branch?
2 parts of the U.S. Congress
What are the House of Representatives & the Senate?
The month when presidential elections are held in the United States
What is November?
If the President does not agree with a bill presented to him by Congress, he can do this
What is "veto the bill?"
Age someone has to be to run for President of the US
What is 35 years old?
The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution
What are the Bill of Rights?
System the founding fathers put in place to keep any one branch of government from becoming too powerful
What is Checks & Balances?
The number of U.S. senators
What is 100?
2 part question:
1. The number of years a U.S. Representative is elected for
2. The number of years a U.S. Senator is elected for
What are 2 years (representatives)
and 6 years (senators)?
The job of the judicial branch
What is to interpret laws?
Amendment that gave Women the Right to Vote
What is Amendment 19?
2 of the rights or freedoms listed in the 1st Amendment
What are: The freedom of Speech, religion, press, petition, or assembly?
What branch of the government did the founding fathers intend to be the weakest of the three?
What is the Judicial branch?
The title of the person in charge of the House of Representatives.
Bonus: What is that person's name?
Who is the Speaker of the House?
Who is Nancy Pelosi?
The term limit for a president
Bonus: Name the US President that was elected the most times in history and the number of times he was elected
What is 2 terms of 4 years?
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt and 4 times?
Highest court in the U.S.
Bonus: Name 2 past or present members of that court
What is the Supreme Court?
Beyond the age requirements,
there are 2 other qualifications that have to be met before someone can become president of the United States. Name them both.
and
"a resident for 14 years?"