Duties & Responsibilities
A required action of citizens, such as obeying laws and paying taxes.
What are Civic Duties?
The first three words of the Constitution, which establish the idea of popular sovereignty.
What are "We the People"?
The name for the two-house structure of Congress, made up of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
What is bicameral?
The length of one term for the President of the United States.
What is 4 years?
The highest court in the United States.
What is the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS)?
This 1803 case established the crucial power of Judicial Review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
A voluntary action of citizens that involves improving the community, such as volunteering or voting.
What are Civic Responsibilities?
This piece of the Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 18) grants the Congress implied powers.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
The total number of members in the U.S. House of Representatives.
What is 435?
The official group of presidential advisers, which includes the heads of the 15 executive departments.
What is the Cabinet?
The term for the authority of a court to hear and decide a case.
What is Jurisdiction?
This 1966 case established that police must inform suspects of their Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights (like the right to remain silent) before questioning.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
The required duty all male U.S. citizens aged 18 to 25 must register for.
What is the Selective Service (Draft)?
The first 10 Amendments to the Constitution, guaranteeing fundamental freedoms and rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The leader of the House of Representatives, and the second person in the line of presidential succession.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
The President's role as the ceremonial head of the U.S. government, which often involves hosting foreign leaders.
What is the Chief or Head of State?
The famous power established by the Supreme Court to declare acts of the President or Congress unconstitutional.
What is Judicial Review?
This 1969 case ruled that students do not "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate."
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
This duty requires citizens to appear in court if they are called to help ensure a fair trial.
What is Jury Duty?
The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment prevents the government from establishing one of these.
What is an official/national religion?
The constitutional power of Congress to charge the President, a federal judge, or other civil officer with a crime.
What is Impeachment?
This power allows the President to reject a bill passed by Congress, thereby preventing it from becoming law.
What is veto?
It is an order from the higher courts to the lower, telling them to send up all documents and materials regarding a case they have decided to review.
What is a Writ of Certiorari?
This 1954 case unanimously overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, ruling that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This is the most fundamental and important responsibility of a citizen in a democracy.
What is voting?
Article VI of the Constitution establishes this important principle/Clause.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
Advice and Consent, the power to officially approve or reject the President's treaties and appointments, is a power of this chamber.
What is the Senate?
According to the 22nd Amendment, the maximum number of terms a person can be elected President.
What is 2 terms (or 10 years total)?
This term, implying that a precedent has been set by a higher court, means to let the decision stand.
What is Stare Decisis?
This Supreme Court case introduced the Exclusionary Rule to the states, which prevents the use of illegally obtained evidence in a criminal trial.
What is Mapp v. Ohio (1961)?