Constitution
This document preceded the Constitution and created a weak national government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This is the minimum age requirement to become President.
What is 35 years old?
This chamber of Congress has 435 voting members.
What is the House of Representatives?
The Supreme Court currently has this many justices.
What is 9?
This group formally nominates a party's presidential candidate.
What is a national convention?
The first ten amendments are collectively known as this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This amendment limits presidents to two elected terms.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
This chamber confirms presidential appointments.
What is the Senate?
This landmark case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
These elections determine party nominees for the general election.
Answer: What are primaries or caucuses?
This constitutional principle divides power between the national and state governments.
What is federalism?
This presidential power allows the rejection of legislation passed by Congress.
What is the veto?
The constitutional power to formally bring charges against a federal official is called this.
What is impeachment?
This Chief Justice wrote the majority opinion in Marbury v. Madison.
Who was John Marshall?
This institution officially elects the President.
What is the Electoral College?
This clause in Article VI establishes that federal law is the "supreme law of the land."
What is the Supremacy Clause?
This presidential action has the force of law but does not require congressional approval.
What is an executive order?
This congressional committee reconciles differences between House and Senate versions of a bill.
What is a conference committee?
This case established that segregated schools was unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education
This occurs when voters support candidates from different parties for different offices.
What is split-ticket voting?
This amendment reserved powers not delegated to the federal government to the states or the people.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
This scandal led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
What is Watergate?
This procedure allows senators to delay or block legislation through extended debate.
What is a filibuster?
This case established that students do not "shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate."
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
This person is credited with founding the Democratic Republican Party.