Which Branch?
The branch primarily responsible for making laws.
What is the legislative branch?
Presides over the House sessions and assigns bills to committees.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
What is gerrymandering?
Powers kept for the states.
What are reserved powers?
The sharing of power between the national and state governments.
What is federalism?
The branch of government that the president is a part of.
What is the executive branch?
Confirms presidential appointments and ratifies treaties.
What is the Senate?
The power of courts to decide if a law violates the Constitution.
What is judicial review?
The power to tax is an example of this power.
What is a concurrent power?
The way a bill vetoed by the president gets passed.
What is a 2/3 vote of congress?
The phrase that describes the fact that each branch of government has power that limit the powers of the other branches.
What are checks and balances?
Supreme court justices serve a term this long.
What is life?
Asking a higher court to review a lower courts decision.
What is an appeal?
A power that is specifically written in the Constitution?
What is an enumerated power?
The government body that holds the trial for impeachment.
What is the Senate?
The branch that contains the Supreme Court and can declare a law unconstitutional.
What is the Judicial Branch?
This is how many justices serve on the Supreme Court.
What is nine?
The right for a court to hear the case for the first time, hold a trial and render the first judgement.
What is original jurisdiction?
Powers given to government that are not explicitly written in the Constitution, yet alluded to by the elastic clause.
What is an implied power?
The document that contains the Bill of Rights.
What is the United States Constitution?
The phrase written in the Constitution that mentions "necessary and proper" is known as this.
What is the elastic clause?
This is the highest court in the land.
What is the Supreme Court?
A permanent congressional committee that deals with a specific area of legislation.
What is a standing committee?
The power to bring impeachment charges against an elected official is given to this body of government.
What is the House of Representatives?
Elects the president of the United States.
What is the Electoral College?