Vocabulary
more than half
What is "majority"?
another word for trade
What is "commerce"?
declare war
What is an Enumerated Power (Clause #11)?
the President's power to let someone out of federal prison
What is the power to pardon?
declared the Texas state law against flag-burning Unconstitutional using the power of Judicial Review
What is the United States Supreme Court?
the first ten Amendments to the U.S. Constitution
What is "The Bill of Rights"?
the action of asking a higher court to review your court case
make a federal bank ( as in McCulloch v. Maryland )
What is an implied power?
the number of years that a person running for U.S. President has to have lived in the United States
What is 14 or more?
sent U.S. Special Forces to Pakistan
What is the U.S. President?
an agreement that the President makes or negotiates with another world leader
What is a "treaty"?
what is an order that the President makes that acts like a law passed by Congress
What is an "Executive Order"?
create federal tribunals
What is an Enumerated Power (Clause #9)?
the civilization who first divided government powers between different groups
What is Rome?
declared war after the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japan
What is Congress?
to make something official or legal
What is "ratify"?
our dealings with other countries, led the U.S. President acting as Chief Diplomat and his Secretary of State
What is "foreign affairs"?
create an Army and raise Appropriations
What is an Enumerated Power (Clause #12)?
will choose the President if there is a tie (269 electoral votes v. 269 electoral votes ); if no candidate wins a majority of the electoral votes
What is the House of Representatives?
created an independent U.S. Air Force
What is Congress?
two of the three names for powers that are listed in the Constitution specifically for the federal Legislative Branch or Congress
What is "enumerated," "delegated," or "expressed"
the name of Clause #18 that allows Congress to stretch its powers past those listed for it in Clauses 1-17
What is the "Elastic Clause," the "Necessary and Proper Clause," or the "Implied Powers Clause"?
draft young men into the military using the Selective Service Act if not enough men have volunteered to serve
What is an implied power
one of the three Cabinet positions that advised our first President, George Washington
What is Secretary of War (Defense), Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of State
passed the Emancipation Proclamation
Who was the U.S. President?