LEGISLATIVE!
EXECUTIVE!
JUDICIAL!
WHATNOT!
COURT CASES!
100
The number of seats in the US House of Representatives.
What is 435?
100
This Amendment to the US Constitution deals with the issue of presidential succession.
What is Amendment XXV (25th)?
100
These are the two branches of the United States' court system; the United States Supreme Court is the final court of appeal for both branches.
What is state and federal?
100
The branch of government with the power to declare war.
What is the legislative branch?
100
This case ended legal (or "de jure") segregation based on race in the United States?
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
200
If you are a 29-year-old US citizen who has lived in the country for ten years, you could run for this/these federal elected position(s).
What is House of Representatives/Congressperson? ('Cuz you gotta be 30 to run for Senate)
200
This government body is responsible for resolving who wins the election if no presidential candidates win an electoral majority.
What is the House of Representatives?
200
This is the only real remaining instance where the US Supreme Court exercises its original jurisdiction.
What is when one state sues another?
200
The house of Congress that would increase its number of seats if places like Puerto Rico or Guam were granted statehood.
What is the Senate?
200
What case established that cops were required to inform people of certain rights when placing them under arrest?
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
300
This is the source of most of Congress' implied powers.
What is the "Necessary & Proper" or "elastic" clause?
300
The number of electoral votes in the Electoral College.
What is 538?
300
This is the principle established by the Supreme Court's decision in Marbury v. Madison.
What is judicial review?
300
The reason the USA operates primarily as a two-party system.
What is tradition?
300
(Breaking Jeopardy for a second...) Which of the following cases is NOT related to 1st Amendment rights in schools? A) Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier B) Lemon v. Kurtzman C) New Jersey v. T.L.O. D) Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District.
That would be "C" - search & seizure is 4th Amendment, not 1st.
400
This majority is required in both houses of Congress to pass an Amendment to the US Constitution.
What is 2/3?
400
After the Vice President & the Speaker of the House, this person is next in line in terms of presidential succession.
Who is the senior Senator of the majority party / president pro tempore?
400
This type of jurisdiction can be thought of as being primarily geographic in nature.
What is personal jurisdiction?
400
The modern US political party that supported slavery during the Civil War and was predominant in the Southern US until the Civil Rights Era.
What is the Democratic Party/Democrats?
400
This case established that police are allowed to stop and frisk suspects FOR WEAPONS if they have reasonable suspicion to believe the suspect may be armed.
What is Terry v. Ohio?
500
This Article & Section of the Constitution articulates most of Congress' express powers.
What is Article I, Section 8?
500
The number of US Presidents who have been assassinated.
What is 4?
500
The length of a Supreme Court Justice's term before they have to campaign for re-election.
What is. . . wait, what? No. They're appointed by the President for life.
500
The number of US Presidents who have been successfully impeached.
What is. . . zero? It's zero, right?
500
This case established that you CAN in fact sue the President of the United States... as long as you're suing him for something he did BEFORE he became President.
What is Clinton v. Jones?
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