Branches of Government
What are the 3 branches of government?
What are the Legislative, the Executive, and the Judicial Branches.
What is the supreme law of the land?
What is the Constitution.
What is one right guaranteed by the First Amendment?
What is freedom of speech?
What are the two major political parties in the U.S.?
What are the Democratic Party and the Republican Party?
What was the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education?
What is that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional?
Which branch is responsible for making laws?
What is the legislative branch.
How many amendments are in the Bill of Rights?
What are 10
What is a civic responsibility for U.S. citizens?
What is voting?
What is the term for the period before an election when candidates campaign?
What is the election season
What did Roe v. Wade establish?
What is the right to privacy in a woman's decision to have an abortion?
Who is the head of the Executive Branch at the Federal level?
Who is the President of the United States.
What document did the Constitution replace?
What are is the Articles of Confederation
What amendment protects the right to privacy?
What is the 14th Amendment?
What is a primary election?
What is an election to determine a party's candidate for the general election?
What did the decision in Miranda v. Arizona require?
What are the Miranda rights, requiring police to inform suspects of their rights?
What is the main function of the Judicial Branch?
What is to interpret laws and administer justice- ensure that laws are constitutionally sound.
What principle prevents any one branch from becoming too powerful?
What is checks and balances.
What amendment ensures a citizen's right to legal counsel?
What is the 6th Amendment.
What is the Electoral College?
What is a body that elects the President and Vice President of the United States?
In which case did the Supreme Court establish the "Lemon Test" to determine if a law violates the Establishment Clause?
What is Lemon v. Kurtzman?
How many justices serve on the Supreme Court?
What are 9
What is the process for amending the Constitution?
What is proposed by two-thirds of Congress and ratified by three-fourths of the states?
What is the process by which citizens can propose legislation or constitutional amendments?
What is initiative.
What is the term for the practice of drawing district boundaries to benefit a particular political party?
What is gerrymandering?
What was the main outcome of the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization?
What is the ruling that eliminated the constitutional right to abortion established by Roe v. Wade?