Judicial Vocabulary
This is the highest court in the federal judiciary.
What is the Supreme Court?
This is the minimum age requirement to be elected President of the United States
What is 35 years old?
True or False: The U.S. Constitution requires a Supreme Court nominee to have been a practicing lawyer for at least ten years.
What is False? (The Constitution specifies no formal qualifications)
This Cabinet department is responsible for developing and implementing the President's foreign policy and managing U.S. diplomatic relations abroad.
What is the Department of State?
This 2022 case overturned the precedent set in Roe v. Wade, holding that the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion.
What is Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022)?
The limit on judicial power; federal courts can only rule on actual legal disputes.
What is Original Jurisdiction?
True or False: Besides age, a presidential candidate must be a natural-born citizen of the United States.
What is a True.
True or False: The U.S. Constitution sets a minimum age requirement for a person to be nominated as a Supreme Court Justice.
What is False? (The Constitution specifies no formal qualifications)
This Cabinet department serves as the chief law enforcement officer and legal advisor to the President, overseen by the Attorney General.
What is the Department of Justice?
This 2023 case challenged the use of race as a factor in college admissions, effectively ending the practice of affirmative action in higher education.
What is Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (2023)?
The power of courts to determine the constitutionality of legislative and executive actions.
What is Judicial Review?
In addition to age and citizenship, a presidential candidate must have been a resident of the United States for this length of time.
What is at least 14 years
True or False: Supreme Court Justices, like the President, must be natural-born citizens of the United States.
What is False? (The Constitution specifies no formal qualifications, including citizenship)
Promoting economic prosperity, managing federal finances, and collecting taxes falls under the purview of this department.
What is the Department of the Treasury?
The legal principle established in the landmark case of Marbury v. Madison.
What is Judicial Review?
This term describes the limit on judicial power, meaning federal courts can only rule on actual legal disputes, not hypothetical ones
What are Cases and Controversies?
This is the one qualification listed in the test that is not a constitutional requirement to be elected President.
What is having held a previous elected federal office?
This is the only official qualification for federal judges (including Supreme Court Justices) mentioned in Article III of the Constitution, regarding their tenure.
What is Good Behavior?
This department, which handles the defense of the nation and oversees the military, is not the Department of State
What is the Department of Defense?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY - Congressional Structure
This is the name for the minimum number of members who must be present in either the House or the Senate to conduct official business.
What is a Quorum?
This is the constitutional term of office for federal judges, essentially a lifetime appointment, as long as their conduct is correct.
What is Good Behavior?
This branch of government, under Article II of the Constitution, holds the qualifications for the President.
What is the Executive Branch?
While the Constitution doesn't specify formal qualifications, the President appoints and the Senate confirms Supreme Court Justices as part of the system of this concept.
What is Checks and Balances? (Inferred from the judicial appointment process)
The head of this specific Cabinet department is the only one not called a "Secretary," but rather the Attorney General.
What is the Department of Justice?
TRIPLE JEOPARDY - The Bill Process
If a bill passes both the House and the Senate but is vetoed by the President, both chambers must pass the bill again by this specific vote margin to override the veto.
What is a Two-Thirds (2/3) Vote?