Judicial Branch
Number of justices that serve in the Supreme Court
What is 9 Justices?
The leader of the Executive branch
Who is the President?
The total number of members in the House of Representatives
How many is 435?
Total number of senators in the United States senate
What is 100 Senators?
The two largest current political parties in the United States
What are the Democrats and Republicans?
The power of the Supreme Court to determine if laws or actions are constitutional.
The presidential power to reject laws passed by Congress
What is a veto?
The number of years in a term for a Representative
What is 2 years?
The number of Senators representing each state
What is 2?
First in line for Presidential succession
Who is the Vice President?
Court case that reversed the ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson by stating "separate but equal is inherently unequal"
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The term limit for the president of the United States
What is 2 terms?
Congressional power to control taxation and spending
What is the power of the purse?
Length of a single term for a member of the Senate
What is 6 years?
Article of the Constitution that establishes the judicial branch
What is Article III?
Judicial philosophy of strictly interpreting laws and the Constitution
What is judicial restraint?
Presidential rank in the miliatry
What is commander-in-chief?
Highest ranking official of the House of Representatives
What is the Speaker of the House?
Highest ranking official and leader of the U.S. Senate
What is the Vice President?
a proposed law submitted to the legislature to be voted on
What is a bill?
Power of a court to hear a case upon appeal
What is appellate jurisdiction?
Group of people appointed to advise the president
What is the President's cabinet?
The current representative of representing Fresno CA in the House of Representatives
Who is Jim Costa?
The current Senators of California
Who is Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff?
Organizations within Congress that consider bills and issues and oversee agencies, programs, and activities
What is a committee?