FEDERALISM 101
What is the division of power between the states and the national government called?
What is Federalism?
Under the Constitution, the US government is composed of _______, _______, and ________ branches of govt.
What are the legislative, the executive and the judicial?
How long are the terms for a US House of Representative and US Senator?
What is 2 years and 6 years?
What is the title for the top executive office in our state AND how long is the term?
What is Governor and 4 years?
What are the chambers/houses that make Congress a bicameral legislative body of government?
What are the House of Representatives & the Senate?
The number of representatives from each state in the House of Representatives is based on what?
What is the state's population?
How does the Constitution ensure that no one branch becomes too powerful?
What is by using a system of checks and balances?
What is the function of the Supreme Court?
What is reviews and interprets the laws?
A group of people who advises the President and leads the departments of government. What is the title of most of these members?
What is the President's Cabinet? What is Secretary?
What are the two court systems in the US?
What is state and federal?
How many US Senators AND how many US Representatives are there?
What is 100 Senators and 435 Representatives? Total of 535 representative in Congress.
What level of govt conducts foreign policy and regulates commerce?
What is federal?
How can the Legislative Branch put a check on the Executive Branch
What is overriding vetoes and impeaching the President?
Which elected official serves as the state's top legal officer, they advise and represent their legislature and state agencies and act as the “People’s Lawyer” for the citizens?
Who is the Attorney General?
Arlington's elected, five-member legislative governing body.
What is Arlington's County Board (of Supervisors)?
Who is the President of the Senate AND who is the leader of the House of Representatives? (two different people)
Who are the Vice President (Kamala Harris) and the Speaker of the House? (Kevin McCarthy)
Preparing the annual budget, appointing cabinet members and administering the federal bureaucracy is the job of what branch?
What is the executive branch?
If a law is unclear, which branch of government has the power to interpret what it means?
What is the Judicial Branch?
Who would be considered the director of foreign policy and chief diplomat of the US?
Who is POTUS? (President of the United States)
The legislative branch at the city level is called...The legislative branch at the national level is called...
What is the city council?
What is Congress?
After a bill is introduced in the General Assembly, what is the next step in the law-making process?
What is the bill goes to committee?
Who has the power to...interpret laws, review laws and make decisions in federal trials?
What is the Judicial Branch?
What is the purpose of Cabinet departments and independent regulatory agencies?
What is to help carry out federal laws?
Which branch of government makes the laws of the nation, confirms presidential appointments, and declares war?
What is the Legislative Branch?
If you need to make an appeal to a court's decision, what court system would hear your new court case? What LEVEL of court system is this on?
What is an appellate court?
What is state level?