Executive Branch
The age a person needs to be in order to run for president
What is 35 years old?
The total number of senators
What is 100?
The number of judges on the Supreme Court
What is 9?
The branch with the power to declare the constitutionality of any law or order
What is the Supreme Court?
The reason why we have two chambers in Congress
What is the Great Compromise (dispute between states with large populations and those with small populations)?
The name of the president's formal working place
What is the Oval Office?
The length of a senator's term
What is 6 years?
The duration of time a judge can serve in the Supreme Court
What is a lifetime?
The branch that confirms or declines presidential appointments
What is the Senate?
The branch that can reinterpret laws
What is the Supreme Court/judicial branch?
The power the president has to forgive a person’s legal penalties
What is the pardon power?
The state with the largest number of representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives
What is California?
The qualifications needed to be a Supreme Court justice
None
The branch of our government has the “power of the purse”, or the ability to control government spending
What is Congress?
The power the President has over Congress
What is veto power?
The role the president has in the military
What is the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy?
The primary leader of the Senate, who has the sole power to break a tie vote
Who is the Vice President (President of the Senate)?
The first African-American Supreme Court justice
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
The branch of government with the power to declare war
What is Congress?
The branch that creates lower federal courts
What is the legislative branch?
This president appointed the largest amount of Supreme Court justices (2 options)
Who is President George Washington? or Who is President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The procedural tactic in which a senator can extend debate on a bill or nomination indefinitely to delay or prevent a vote
What is the filibuster?
Name one of the judges on the Supreme Court today
Who are: Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Thomas, Justice Alito, Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, Justice Gorsuch, Justice Kavanaugh, Justice Barrett, and/or Justice Jackson?
The chamber of Congress with the constitutional power to conduct impeachment trials
What is the Senate?
The branch that approves the federal budget
What is the legislative branch?