Legislative Branch
The legislative branch is also known as.
What is Congress?
The leader of the Executive Branch.
What is the President?
The number of justices on the Supreme Court
What is 9 Justices?
The number of amendments in the bill of rights.
What is 10 amendments?
The two outcomes of a objection.
What is sustained and overruled?
The number of people that are in Congress (separate house and senate)
What is 100 in the Senate, 435 in the House of representatives?
The advisers to the President are collectively referred to as the _______ and individually referred to as ______
What is the Cabinet and Secretaries?
When the supreme court makes a decision, and that decision sets a standard for how future cases on similar issues will be handled.
What is Precedent?
The number of amendments.
What is 27 amendments?
The side of the case that presents witnesses first.
What is the Prosecution?
The tie breaker in the Senate.
What is the Vice President?
The ways the executive branch can check and balance all other branches.
(100 per answer)
What is appointing Supreme Court Justices, vetoing laws approved by congress, and being the tie-breaker of congress?
The power of the Supreme Court to decide what is and what is not constitutional.
What is Judicial Review?
The number of articles in the constitution.
What is 7 articles?
The first thing that happens in a court case.
What is the judges entering the courtroom?
The requirements to become a senator or representative. (150 each)
What is at least 30 years old, 9 years of U.S citizen, and residence in the state you want to represent for the senate. 25 years old, U.S citizen for 7 years, and residence in the state you want to represent for a representative?
The number of members in the cabinet.
(include all heads of departments, the leader of the Branch, and the vice-leader of the Branch)
What is 17 members?
The Supreme Course case that made segregation ILLEGAL and overturned the “separate but equal” precedent set by Plessy v Ferguson.
What is Brown v Board Ed?
The sections of the constitution.
What is the preamble, articles, and the amendments?
The names of roles in a criminal case.
(50pts per)
What is the Prosecutor, Defense attorney, Judge, Defendant, Witness, Bailiff, Jury, and Clerk?
The things legislative branch is able to do.
(List main answers 100 per)
What is lawmaking, impeachment, declaring war, regulating interstate and foreign commerce, and electing Supreme Court justices?
The powers of the executive branch. (be specific and list all main powers)
What is enforcing laws, commanding armed forces, appointing federal officials, vetoing laws, and being the tie-breaker of congress?
The Latin word for when the supreme court decides to accept a case.
What is Certiorari?
The first five amendments allows you to do.
What is freedom of speech, press, assembly, petition, and religion, the right to bear arms, banned unlawful entry and quartering altogether, banned unlawful/unreasonable searches and arrests, and defined rights in a criminal case?
The types of objections in court.
(100pts per)
What is hearsay, leading, argumentative, relevance, speculation?