Overall Constituion
State Government is lower than this form of government.
What is the Federal Government?
What is making laws?
What is the President?
The Judicial Branch does this to laws.
What is Interprets the Law?
The First 10 Amendments of the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
Bicameral Legislature
This elects the President.
What is the Electoral College?
The number of Supreme Court Justices, how they get their jobs, and how long they serve.
What are 9 justices that are appointed by the president and serve for life or until retirement?
Someone who wanted to ratify the Constitution without adding a Bill of Rights.
What is a Federalist?
Similar to the Vice President, but at the level of the governor.
What is the Lieutenant Governor?
Term Lengths for both House and Senate
What is 2 years for House and 6 years for Senate?
The heads of these make up the presidents cabinet.
What are the 15 Executive Departments?
The Supreme Court's power to interpret the Constitution
What is Judicial Review?
The clause that allows Congress powers that are only implied in the Constitution, not specifically stated.
What is The Necessary and Proper Clause (The Elastic Clause)?
Can be either bigger or smaller in range than a city government.
Number of Representatives in both the House and Senate.
What is 435 in the House and 100 in the Senate?
The maximum possible number of years a president can serve.
What is 10 years?
The case that gave the Supreme Court the power of Judicial Review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Only the 21st Amendment was proposed using this method of proposing amendments.
The type of executive branch that California has, in which we vote for each of the cabinet positions.
What is a Plural Executive?
What is the Majority Whip?