What is the highest form of law in the United States
What is The United States Constitution
100
What is a treaty?
What is a formal agreement between two or more sovereign states
100
What is the Bill of Rights?
What is the first ten amendments to the Constitution
100
What is a veto?
What is the chief executive’s power to reject a bill passed by a legislature
100
How many are articles are in the original Constitution? How many amendments?
What is Seven articles. 27 amendments.
200
What is popular sovereignty
What is Basic principle of the American system of government which asserts that the people are the source of any and all governmental power, and the government can exist only with the consent of the governed.
200
What is the cabinet?
What is the presidential advisory body, traditionally made up of the heads of the executive departments and other officers.
200
Rights Reserved to States
What is Amendment 10
200
A system of government in which a written constitution divides power between a central, or national government and several regional governments is called?
What is federalism
200
What early Supreme Court Case is connected with the power of judicial review?
What is Marbury v. Madison
300
basic principle of American system of government that the executive, legislative, and judicial powers are divided among three independent and coequal branches of government
What is separation of powers
300
What is an executive agreement?
What is a pact made by the President directly with the head of a foreign state; a binding international agreement with the force of law but which does not require Senate consent.
300
What is the sixth amendment?
What is Criminal Prosecutions - Jury Trial, Right to Confront accuser and to Counsel
300
What is the power of judicial review?
What is the power of a court to determine the constitutionality of a governmental action
300
What are the two most recent States admitted to the Union? What year were they admitted?
What are Alaska and Hawaii. They both became states in 1959.
400
What is the electoral college?
What is a group of persons chosen in each State and the District of Columbia every four years who make a formal selection of the President and Vice President
400
What is senatorial courtesy?
What is the custom that the Senate will not approve a presidential appointment opposed by a majority-party senator from the State in which the appointee would serve
400
What is the fourth amendment?
What is Search and Seizure
400
What is constitutionalism?
What is the basic principle that government and those who govern must obey the law; the rule of law.
400
Article One: _________________ Powers. Congress is the ____________________ branch of the National
____________________.
What is Article One: Legislative Powers. Congress is the lawmaking branch of the National Government.
500
What is an enabling act?
What is an act directing the people of the territory to frame a proposed State constitution.
500
What is the rule of law?
What is the concept that government and its officers are always subject to the law.
500
What is the third amendment?
What is Quartering of Troops
500
System of overlapping the powers of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches to permit each branch to check the actions of the others.
What is checks and balances
500
Article Three: _________________ Power. The federal _____________(Supreme Court) interpret and
apply the _____________ of the U.S. in ____________ brought before them
What is The federal courts (Supreme Court) interpret and apply the laws of the U.S. in cases brought before them.