Articles of Confederation
The Constitutional Convention was held in this city.
What is Philadelphia?
Article 1 discusses the ________________ branch.
What is Legislative?
This is the main job of the Executive branch.
What is enforce laws?
The Supreme Court has this many members.
What is nine?
Name one special power that is unique to the Senate
The introduction to the Constitution is called ________________
What is Preamble?
The oaths of office for Congress, Executive, and Judicial branches are all related to protecting and defending this ____
What is the Constitution?
The Articles of Confederation had _______ branch(es) of government.
What is the number one?
This branch of congress has 435 members.
What is the House of Representatives?
The head of this branch of government is called the _________________.
What is the President?
The main duty of the judicial branch is this.
What is to interpret or evaluate laws?
Name one special power that is unique to the House
People who were against ratifying the Constitution were called...
What are antfederalists?
The president can issue _____, or official forgiveness for an acknowledged federal crime
What is a pardon?
This was a meeting of delegates in 1787 to revise the Articles of Confederation, which produced the new U.S. Constitution.
What was the Constitutional Convention?
A member of congress is called a ______________ or __________________.
What is a senator or representative?
If the President does not agree with a law passed by congress, he has this power.
What is veto?
This is the leader of the Supreme Court?
What is the Chief Justice?
Interpreting the Constitution as it was intended by the Framers is representing this viewpoint
Loose Construction/Originalist Viewpoint
The term for a US Representative is ___
What is 2 years?
The leader of the majority party of the House of Representatives has a special title called _____.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
This riot in Western Massachusetts demonstrated the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
The number of representatives for each state is based upon this.
What is population?
This body elects the President.
What is the Electoral College?
Name one Supreme Court Justice
The president can issue rules, regulations, and instructions called_____, which have the binding force of law upon federal agencies but do not require approval of the United States Congress. They expire at the end of the President’s term
What are executive orders?
U.S. senators term lasts ____ years
What is 6?
When the Supreme Court makes a decision that is not unanimous, two opinions are written. One is called the _______opinion. This opinion has the most agreement on the Court.
What is the Majority Opinion?
It established a system for setting up governments in the western territories so they could eventually join the Union on an equal footing with the original 13 states
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
The Great Compromise stated that there should be _______ branches of government and _______ houses in Congress.
What is 3 and 2?
This group is chosen by the President to run executive departments.
What is the cabinet?
This person acts as the judge in impeachment trials.
Who is the Chief Justice?
A _____ is a government with many non-elected officials with specialized jobs. The executive branch is a great example of this.
What is a bureaucracy?
This person serves as the leader of the Senate.
Who is the Vice President?
_______ jurisdiction is the ability to review the decision of a lower court to see if the law was applied fairly.
What is appellate jurisdiction?