In the Constitution...
Whose Job Is It?
Amending the Constitution
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According to the Constitution, who actually has the power to elect the President?
The Electoral College
100
Who has the ultimate authority to decide whether or not a law is constitutional?
Supreme Court
100
What are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution called, and what is their purpose?
Bill of Rights / Protest individual rights from the government
100
What type of government allows the people to elect others to represent them?
Republic
200
What is the purpose of the Preamble of the Constitution?
as an introduction and to state the goals of the new government
200
Who has the power to carry out, enforce, and administer the law?
The executive branch (with the President in charge)
200
What is the main reason why the Constitution has survived for over 200 years?
The document can be amended to the changing of the times
200
What is federalism?
the distribution of state and national powers
300
Name at least one power of the legislative branch that is a part of the checks and balances system.
Power to declare war, power to override a president's veto, may remove the president through impeachment, approves presidential appointments
300
Who has "legislative action", and what does that mean?
Congress - making laws
300
Why did the Civil War amendments have little effect in the South until 1965?
Southern States had Jim Crow laws
300
What was the first document signed that limited the King's power in Great Britain?
The Magna Carta
400
Whose job is it to advise the President?
Cabinet
400
In order to change (amend) the Constitution, what two separate groups must take action?
State legislatures and Congress
400
What is the word that means a "two-chambered, or two-houses" of legislature?
Bicameral
500
In the Constitution, the duties of governing are divided among three branches. What is this principle called?
Separation of Powers
500
Whose job is it to propose an amendment to the Constitution?
Congress (with 2/3 vote) OR National Convention (at the request of 2/3 of state legislatures)
500
Why was the Constitution amended to restrict the President to only two terms in office?
Franklin Roosevelt was elected 4 times
500
In a confederal system, who holds the majority of the power?
States
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