General Knowledge
The name of the first constitution of the United States.
What is The Articles of Confederation?
The minimum age of a Senator
What is 30?
The minimum age requirement for the President
What is 35 years old?
The proportion of Congress that may approve a Constitutional Amendment
What is 2/3?
The current name of the building where the Constitution was signed
What is Liberty Hall?
The father of the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
Part of government that imposes new taxes
What is the House of Representatives?
The minimum age requirement for a Supreme Court Justice
What is there is no age requirement?
The proportion of States that may approve a Constitutional Amendment
What is 3/4
The holder of the "Power of the Purse"
What is the House of Representatives? (Power of the purse means the ability to tax and spend)
Allows each branch of government to keep the others from becoming too powerful.
What is Check and Balances?
The main responsibility of the Legislative Branch
What is make laws?
True or False, court cases between states must go to the Supreme Court
What is TRUE?
The name for our system of national and state governmental cooperation
What is Federalism or the Federal System?
The part of the government that can pardon a federal crime
What is the Executive Branch (president)?
The number of delegates at the Constitutional Convention.
What is 55?
The number of Senators
What is 100?
This part of government makes treaties with other nations
What is the Executive Branch?
This is the supreme law of the land
What is The Constitution?
The current number of Amendments to the Constitution
What is 27?
The agreement that resulted in a bicameral legislature.
What is the Great Compromise?
The citizen requirement for both the Senate and House of Representatives
What is 9 and 7 years?
What Judicial Review means
What is deciding if a law conflicts with the Constitution?
Collecting taxes is an example of this important part of Federalism.
What is a shared power? (Federal and State)
The one specific yearly requirement of the president
What is give the State of the Union?