Government
The senate has this many members.
What is 100?
What are the two houses that make up Congress?
What is the Senate and the House of Representatives?
The powers of the president.
Send out troops, give executive orders, pardon criminals, shape policy, and meet foreign leaders
This clause gives Congress the power to create laws.
What is the necessary and proper clause or the elastic clause?
This amendment allows the Cabinet and VP to remove the president.
What is the 22nd amendment?
The 3 branches of government.
What is Executive, Legislative, and Judicial?
This voting group determines who is elected president.
What is the Electoral College?
This person is next in line to be President and is the tie-breaker for the Senate.
Who is the Vice President?
Only they can declare war
What is Congress?
What is 435?
The document that lists our immediate rights
What is the Bill of Rights?
How many votes are needed for a bill to become a law?
What is 2/3 majority?
The President's popularity determines how well received his speeches are?
What is Bully Pulpit?
How many years can a senator serve?
What is 6 years with an unlimited term limits?
The head of every department makes up the president's advisors.
What is the Cabinet?
The constitution has this many amendments?
What is 27?
This person is directly under the Vice President and Head of the Senate.
What is President Pro Tempore?
They can serve every 2 years, unlimited as long as they are voted back in and must be 25 or older.
What is the House of Representatives?
While no president was ever removed from office, this happened to Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump?
What is Impeachment?
Prevents one branch of government from dominating the others.
What is checks and balances?
The president's refusal to sign a bill so it can become a law
What is a veto?
They have the power to coin money, to declare war, and to override a presidential veto with a 2/3 vote of both houses.
Who is Congress?
To remove the president during an impeachment trial, the Senate needs this many votes.
What is 2/3 vote?