Legislative Branch
What 2 bodies make up Congress?
What is the House of Representatives and the Senate
Name 2 presidents who have been impeached but not convicted.
Andrea Johnson, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump
Where does the judicial power of the United States lay?
What is in the Supreme Court and inferior courts established by Congress
This is how new states are admitted into the union
What is by the approval of congress
Name the 5 rights protected in the first amendment
What is freedom of speech, religion, press, petition, and assembly
Where do bills that deal with revenue have to begin?
What is the House of Representatives?
What can a president be impeached for?
What is treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors
What is equity?
Justice, right, being fair
This is the supreme law of the land
What is the Constitution
This amendment limits presidential terms
What is the 22nd amendemnt
Who has the sole power to convict after an impachment?
What is the Senate?
What are 3 powers of the President?
Commander in chief of the military, appoint ambassadors, appoint Supreme Court judges, grant reprieves and pardons, veto bills by Congress
What is original jurisdiction?
What is the authority to hear cases for the first time
Why did the constitution have to be ratified?
What is the founders wanted a government of the people by the people. The Constitution had to go back to the people to receive their approval.
These 2 amendments deal with alcohol
What is the 18th (prohibition) and the 21st (repeals prohibition)
Why is the Senator's term so much longer than a Representatives?
What is, because the Senate deals more with foreign affairs so the Founders thought Senators needed to be in longer to really get an understanding of it.
What are 3 duties of the President in Article II Section III Clause III?
State of the Union Address, convene both houses, receive ambassadors and other public minister, take care that laws are faithfully executed.
What is appellate jurisdiction?
What is cases that come to a court by appeal from a lower court?
Name the 3 authors of the Federalists Papers.
What is Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
These 3 amendments are the reconstructive amendments
What an the Senate do after impeachment and conviction?
What is remove from office and disqualify them from holding any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States.
Name 5 offices in the President's cabinet
What is, Secretary of State, Defense, Homeland Security, of the Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Energy, Health and Human Services, Education, Veterans Affairs, Attorney General
What is treason?
What is levying war against the United States, or adhering, giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States.
What is the amendment process?
What is the amendment must be introduced to both house of Congress and approved by 2/3 majority in each, then it is passed onto each of the fifty state legislatures and 3/4 of each must ratify the amendment or the process can be done in reverse order.
These 3 amendments grant suffrage