Congress
This is how Senators were chosen before they were chosen by the people.
What is by legislators?
This is who directly votes for the president.
What are the electors?
This is how many justices sit on the Supreme Court today.
What is 9?
This branch of the legislature has the power to put impeachment candidates on trial.
What is the Senate?
How enslaved people were counted in the census, taken every 10 years
What is 3/5 of a person
Congress cannot pass an "ex post facto law," meaning what?
That one cannot be charged for a crime before that action was criminalized.
The president has the right to veto a bill. What happens if Congress cannot overturn the veto?
What is: The bill dies.
Supreme Court judges do not have to worry about being fired because they have what kind of job security? (Hint: Vocabulary word)
What is life tenure?
These are the criteria for impeachment (name two of the three crimes)
What are bribery, treason, or other high crimes or misdemeanors?
This is how many Amendments the Constitution has today.
What is 27?
Congress has four categories of power. Name three.
What are revenue, regulatory, war, and general welfare?
What are the Cabinet and the armed forces?
What are the Appellate courts and the Supreme Court?
This is the name for the process of becoming a citizen.
What is naturalization?
This is the meaning of habeas corpus.
What is "produce the body";
Otherwise, the process by which a person cannot be put on trial without evidence of committing a crime.
Which two groups can propose amendments to the Constitution?
What are states and Congress?
Abraham Lincoln repealed the Fugitive Slave Clause in 1864. What did the Fugitive Slave Clause do?
What is: It said that any escaped slaves must be returned to their original enslaver and cannot be kept by the person who found him/her.
The Supreme Court has appellate jurisdiction and original jurisdiction. What is original jurisdiction?
What is the process of the Supreme Court hearing a new trial that has not yet gone to any other court?
This is how the punishment of treason is limited.
Because they are not determining innocence or guilt, rather if the original decision abides by federal law.
When an Amendment is brought up in the house and approved, it goes to the Senate. The Senate requires a 2/3 vote to pass the Amendment. All states are equally represented in the Senate. How many Senators have to approve an Amendment for it to go to the states.
What is 67?
The Supreme Court can and cannot choose the cases they accept. Explain how they cannot.
These people are required to abide by the US Constitution as the highest law of the land.
Who are ALL state and federal public officials?
February 14th is Valentines Day.
July 2nd was the day that the Declaration of Independence was first signed.
July 14th is Bastille Day
What is today's date?
What is February 8th?