Constitutional Convention
This is a person who supported the Constitution
What is a Federalist?
This is the document that outlines the government structure and functions, as well as outlines citizens rights.
What is the Constitution?
The Legislative Branch is made up of this group.
What is Congress?
The Executive Branch is led by this person.
Who is the President?
This court sits at the top of the Judicial Branch
What is the Supreme Court
This is a person who did not support the Constitution, rather, they favored state's rights and feared a strong national government.
What is an antifederalist?
These are the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution, including the rights to freedom of speech, religion, and protest.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Congress is made up of these two chambers
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
This is the process of voting by which citizens choose the President
What is the Electoral College?
This is the number of Supreme Court Justices that sit on the Supreme Court
What is 9?
This was the plan of government before the U.S Constitution, which emboldened state's rights
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This is a system of government in which government powers are separated into different branches so that one is not more powerful than the other
What is separation of powers?
While every state has 2 senators, the amount of representatives depends on each state's...
What is population?
This is a power that the President has
What is...
signing/vetoing legislation, Commander in chief of the military, power to appoint federal officials, make treaties with other countries, issue executive orders, grant pardons, execute the law, convene Congress, shape political agenda, receive ambassadors, etc...
This is the most important power of the Judicial Branch
What is judicial review/deeming a law constitutional or unconstitutional?
These people met at the Constitutional Convention to discuss the new Constitution
What is a delegate?
This is a change or addition to a law in the Constitution. There are currently 27 of them.
What is an amendment?
This is a proposed law, or an idea, that's process to become a law starts in the House.
What is a bill?
This is the group of close advisors of the President that are leaders of their own federal department, such as the Department of Homeland Security, Transportation, or Housing and Urban Development
What is the Cabinet?
This is a written/formal request for the Supreme Court to hear a case (2 bonus points if you can pronounce AND spell it correctly!)
What is a Writ of Certiorari?
This was the year that the Constitutional Convention occurred.
What is 1787?
Constitutional rights originally were not granted to everyone in the U.S. Name one group of people who were not considered at the writing of the original Constitution.
Who are any of the following...
Women, African Americans, Native Americans, those who practiced a religion other than Protestantism, males who did not own property
This clause in Article 1 of the Constitution allows Congress to expand its power when needed.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
This is a way that the Executive Branch checks and balances Congress
What is vetoing bills?
This is the case decided in 1803 the created the idea/precedent of Judicial Review
What is Marbury v. Madison?