Legislative Branch
This is the number of senators that each state gets.
What is 2?
This is the Highest Court in the land.
What is the Supreme Court?
These two people are the two leaders of the Executive Branch today.
Who is Donald Trump & JD Vance?
This term refers to the first 10 Amendments in the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This branch of government was missing from the Articles of Confederation, which made the Articles and the country weak.
What is the executive branch?
What are the main power of the Legislative Branch
What is creating bills, declaring war, approving treaties, and presidential appointments, and controlling federal spending?
This is the main job of the Judicial Branch.
What is Judicial Review & Interpretations of laws?
This term refers to something the Executive Branch can do that releases people from jail.
What is a pardon?
The First Amendment covers this.
What is freedom of speech, religion, and press?
Who was the president of the Constitutional Convention?
Who is George Washington?
This is how the number of Congress members each state gets is based on.
What is based on population?
What is so votes on laws and cases will never end in a tie?
These are the main powers of the Executive Branch.
What is enforcing the laws, commanding the military, appointing officials, and conducting foreign relations?
The 2nd Amendment covers this.
What is the right to bear arms?
This is the compromise that made it so that African Americans were counted as 3/5ths of a vote.
What is the 3/5ths compromise?
This is the term for the president ending a bill before it becomes a law.
What is a Veto?
This is how long a term as a Supreme Court Justice is.
What is for life?
These three members make up the Executive Branch.
What is the President, the Vice President, and the President's Cabinet?
This is what an Amendment is.
What is a formal change, addition, or modification to the Constitution?
This rebellion involved Massachusetts farmers and was formed to rebel against high taxes.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
This person leads the Senate, & This person leads the House of Representatives.
Who is the Vice President, and who is the Speaker of The House?
This term refers to the power to determine if laws are constitutional
What is Judicial Review?
This is another name for the President of the United States. (This refers to one of the jobs of the Executive Branch)
What is The Commander-in-Chief?
The number of states that have to agree to pass an Amendment.
What is 3/4's of the states/ 34 states?
The part of the Articles of Confederation that created a system for creating new states.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?