Courts
This is the highest U.S. federal court.
What is the Supreme Court?
This is known as the “Law Of The Land”
What is the Constitution?
These are the three branches of U.S. government.
What are legislative, executive, judicial.
This amendment defines citizenship.
What is the 14 amendment?
These are the two types of jurisdictions.
What are appellate and original.
This is the lowest federal court.
What is U.S. District court?
This amendment guarantees due process.
What is the Fifth?
What is override a veto or impeach the president.
These are the two ways to become a citizen in America.
What is birth and naturalization?
This is what the case Brown vs Board of education did.
What is desegregate the schools.
This is the only State court to have a judge and jury (if requested).
What is the circuit court?
This is what the second amendment states.
What is right to Bear Arms?
This is the most powerful branch of the U.S. government.
What is none/all. (Checks and balances makes it so no branch can get too powerful)
Civic duty or responsibility: registering to vote.
What is Civic Responsibility?
This is how many presidents died on the 4th of July.
What is three
(John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe)
This is the court you go to after your state’s Supreme Court
What is the Supreme Court?
These are the five freedoms stated in the First Ammendment.
What is Speech, Religion, Petition, Assembly, and Press.
This is when the president overturns a bill passed in congress.
What is override.
Name two things that need to be done in order to be a naturalized citizen.
What are older than 18, take the naturalization test, take oath, read write and speak basic English, know American history and Government, live in the United States for over 3 years.
This is the only state court to have both appellate and original jurisdiction.
What is the circuit court.
The court you go to for family matters and underaged crimes.
What is Juvenile and domestic relations court? (JDR)
This is the whole Preamble to the Constitution.
What is “ We the people of the United States of America, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America?”
Fun Fact: this is all one sentence long.
This is when the president acts as chief legislator.
What is when the president is in direct contact with congress.
True or False: even if you’re not a US citizen, you still have to perform civic duties and responsibilities.
What is True.
This this the Supreme Court civil case that gave us judicial review.
Marbury vs Madison