Constitution
A change or addition to the Constitution.
What is an amendment?
435
100, 2 per state.
How many senators are there?
Representative electors from each state who vote for president.
What is the Electoral College?
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
An uprising of farmers who were angry about the economy; it proved the need for a stronger federal government.
What was Shay's Rebellion?
This plan was supported by larger states, who believed that the number of representatives should be proportional to the population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
This plan was supported by smaller states, who argued that all states should have the same number of representatives regardless of population.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
The heads of executive departments who advise the president.
What is the Cabinet?
What are anti-federalists?
Powers given to each branch to limit the powers of other branches, so that no one part of government can become too powerful.
What are Checks and Balances?
This is the leader of the House of Representatives, and third in line for the presidency.
What is the Speaker of the House?
Indefinite debate to delay the voting on a bill
What is a filibuster?
A speech given to Congress that allows the President to set the political agenda and say which issues (s)he thinks are most important.
What is the State of the Union Address?
The first version of the Constitution, this document failed because it made the federal government too weak.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
A process where Congress can charge a federal official as guilty of a crime. This process must start in the House.
What is impeachment?
60 votes are needed.
How many votes are needed to end a filibuster?
The president must notify Congress within 48 hours of deploying troops, and cannot deploy troops for longer than 60 days without Congressional approval.
What is the War Powers Resolution?
A law meant to prevent African Americans from voting that said someone can only vote if their grandfather voted.
A system where both the federal and state governments have sovereignty by dividing up the areas for which they are responsible.
What is Federalism?
What are Revenue/Fiscal Bills?
This is what the Senate used to be referred to, because while the House was "the house of the people", senators were chosen by the state.
What is "the house of the states"?
The Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
When is Election Day?
What is a pocket veto?