Vocabulary
Preamble
Branches of Govt.
Numbers
Misc.
100
Allows for trade and business dealings to occur between two or more states
What is interstate commerce?
100
Tranquility
What is peace and order?
100
This branch decides what laws are constitutional
What is the judicial branch?
100
Number of members on the Supreme Court
What is 9?
100
The U.S. Constitution is this because it has changed with the times
What is a living document?
200
Shared power between national and state power
What is federalism?
200
This part of the Constitution lists the purpose
What is the Preamble?
200
Negotiates treaties and carries out laws
What are duties of the executive branch?
200
Total number of members of Congress
What is 535?
200
This group has the power to declare war
What is Congress?
300
The system that keeps any one branch of government from becoming too powerful
What is checks and balances?
300
Why we need federal courts is found in these words
What is "establish justice"?
300
This power is shared but state and national governments
What is raising taxes?
300
Length of term for member of the US House of Representative
What is 2 years?
300
The Supreme Law of the Land
What is the U.S. Constitution?
400
An organization that promotes the views of parts of the republic or country
What is interest group?
400
The first three words of the Preamble tell us that authority of the Constitution comes from this
What is "The people"?
400
Make laws for the country
What is the primary job of Congress?
400
This fraction of states must approve an amendment to the Constitution
What is 3/4?
400
Settles disputes between different states
What are federal courts?
500
The idea that the government's authority comes from the people
What is popular sovereignty?
500
This word means our children and grandchildren
What is posterity?
500
Approved by Congress and signed by the President
What is how a bill becomes a law?
500
Number of amendments that have been made to the Constitution
What is 27?
500
This gives Congress the power to pass laws needed to carry out its other powers
What is elastic clause?
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