Bill of Rights
This is how many Bill of Rights we have
What are 10
Article 1 discusses the ________________ branch.
What is Legislative?
This is the main job of the Executive branch.
What is to carry out the laws?
This is the highest court
What is the Supreme Court
The introduction to the Constitution is called ________________
What is Preamble?
This means to officially approve.
What is to ratify
This person was the author of the Bill of Rights (Hint, he's also the Father of the Constitution)
Who is James Madison
This group of congress members 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?
Who is James Madison
These are the first 10 Amendments in our Constitution
What are the Bill of Rights.
Amendment 1 states, citizens have the right to assemble, what does this mean?
What is to protest the government
This is who makes up Congress.
What is the House of Representatives and the Senate.
If the President does not agree with a law passed by congress, he has this power.
What is veto?
The Supreme Court gets 1,000s of cases to review each year, but only accepts about this many each year.
What is about 100
This is how long a US Representative can serve for.
What is 2 years?
This is how delegates compromised on slaves in the Constitution.
What is the 3/5ths Compromise.
To protect the people and limit the government's powers
The number of representatives for each state is based upon this.
What is population?
This body elects the President.
What is the Electoral College?
This is how many judges are on our Supreme Court
What are 9
U.S. senators term lasts ____ years
What is 6?
This is the nations set of basic laws
What is the Constitution.
This Amendment gives us the right to a fair and speedy trial.
What is Amendment 6
The Great Compromise stated that there should be _______ branches of government and _______ houses in Congress.
What is 3 and 2?
In order to become President, one needs this many Electoral Votes.
What is 270
The Supreme Court makes sure decisions by the Executive and Judicial Branches are __________
What is Constitutional.
This is how the countries population is counted
What is the Census Report.
This was created so one branch of government wouldn't become too powerful
What is Checks and Balances.