Unit 1
The institution through which a society makes and enforces its ideals
What is Government?
What are the three branches of Government?
What is Executive, Legislative, and Judicial?
In this type of vote Each member says “Aye or Nay” when their name is called.
What is A Roll-Call Vote?
The status of owing allegiance to a state and being entitled to its protection
What is Citizenship?
This founding father was in France and did not get to sign the constitution.
What is Thomas Jefferson?
A system that allows each branch of government to limit the powers of the other branches in order to prevent abuse of power.
What is Checks and Balances?
What two Houses make up Congress
What is Senate and The House of Representatives?
a long speech meant to delay a vote until the bill is changed or “dies”.
What is a Filibuster?
All people born within the US & its territories, embassies, and bases.
What is Birthright Citizenship?
This founding father needed help signing the constitution due to health problems and cried while doing so.
What is Benjamin Franklin?
Nobles forced King John to sign this, limiting his power over them, in 1215.
What is the Magna Carta?
What Branch of Government is the President in?
What is the Executive Branch?
Name one type of resolution.
What is Simple, Concurrent, or joint Resolutions?
This 1920 law set a cap of immigrants a year to only 300,000.
What is the 1920 Emergency Quota Law?
This constitution has 4,400 words and is the oldest and shortest written Constitution of any major government in the world.
What is the US constitution?
William and Mary were forced to ratify this in 1689.
What is The English Bill of Rights?
Name two cases on federalism.
What is Marbury V. Madison, McCulloch V. Maryland, Ableman V. Booth, US V. Nixon.?
What are the two types of bills?
What is Public and Private bills?
This Amendment included a definition of citizenship and an expansion of civil rights.
What is The Fourteenth Amendment?
This state spelling error in the constitution is very glaring.
What is “Pensylvania” above the signers’ names?
This 17th century judge heavily criticized The English Bill of Rights.
What is Sir William Blackstone?
List all requirements to be eligible for presidency.
What is you must be at least 35 years old, A natural Citizen (born in the US), and a resident of the US for a minimum of 14 years in a row?
This Bill was the 289th Bill introduced to the Senate in 2025, What is the title for this Bill?
What is S.289[119]?
What court case showed the need for the 14th amendment?
What is Dred Scott V. Sandford?
The US constitution has been changed this many times since 1791.
What is Seventeen times?