The Constitution
Article I
Article II
Article III
Amendments
100
The major governing document which lays out the structure and role of government in the United States.
What is the Constitution?
100
This branch's responsibility is to create laws?
What is the Legislative Branch?
100
This branch's role is to enforce laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
100
This branch's role is to interpret laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
100
Total number of Amendments to the US Constitution.
What is 27?
200
Beginning of the Constitution which lays out the purposes of government in the United Sates.
What is the Preamble?
200
The two houses of Congress.
What is the House of Representatives & the Senate?
200
This person is in charge of the executive branch.
Who is the president?
200
The highest court in the land.
What is the Supreme Court?
200
The Second Amendment of the US Constitution.
What is the right to bear arms.
300
This important principle of the constitution insures that one branch does not get too powerful due to a series of interactions and procedures.
What are checks and balances?
300
The leader of the House of Representatives.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
300
This group of advisers helps the president make decisions and also head large federal agencies like the Department of State.
What is the Cabinet?
300
The Supreme Court case that allowed segregation under the idea of "Separate, but Equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
300
These are the 5 protections guaranteed under the first Amendment.
What are the freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
400
The Constitution was officially ratified (adopted) this year.
What is 1887?
400
Length of a senator's term in office?
What is 6 years?
400
The name for federal agencies that were created by actions of Congress to regulate or monitor specific governmental actions.
What are independent agencies?
400
A verdict or deliberation given by the Supreme Court.
What is an opinion?
400
This Amendment gave all people born (or naturalized) in the United States the right to vote (hint: think African-Americans).
What is Fourteenth Amendment?
500
The first document governing the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
500
The representative for Louisiana's 6th District (our district).
Who is Bill Cassidy?
500
The name for procedures and paperwork that slows federal agency action down and often causes headaches for those on the outside.
What is red tape?
500
The ability of the supreme court to declare presidential action or congressional law unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
500
Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. Prohibits unreasonable what?
What is search and seizure?
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