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Has 100 members and is part of the Legislative Branch.
What is the Senate?
The leader of the Executive Branch.
Who is the president?
What is the House of Representatives?
Another term for the national level of government.
What is the federal government?
The Legislative Branch does this.
What is makes laws?
The highest court in the federal government.
What is the Supreme Court?
The number of Supreme Court Justices or Judges.
9
The length of a term of office for a Supreme Court Judge.
What is their entire lifetime.
The length of a term of office for a Representative.
2 Years
The length of a term of office for President of the United States
4 years
Another name for a judge of the Supreme Court.
What is a Supreme Court Justice?
The group that gives advice to the president.
What is the Cabinet?
The length of the term of office for a Senator.
6 years
The term for a 2-House Legislature.
Bicameral
The original constitution of the United States
Articles of Confederation
To approve something by a vote
Ratify
The Supreme Law of the Land in the United States
The Constitution
The number of states needed to approve/accept/ratify the Constitution
9 out of 13
The group of people who wanted a new Constitution and strong central government
Federalists
The name used to refer to the House of Representatives and the Senate together
Congress
The opening lines of the Constitution that set its purpose (not word for word...we are looking for what it is called).
The Preamble
The portion of the Constitution that outlines all of the changes and additions that have been made over the years.
The Amendments
The part of the Constitution that outlines how the Legislative Branch will operate.
Article I
The meeting held to fix problems with the Articles of Confederation.
Constitutional Convention
The year that the Constitution was written.
1787