founding
This document includes the phrase "all men are created equal."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The three branches of government.
What is the legislative, executive, and judicial?
The federal bureaucracy is in this branch.
What is executive?
The two Houses in Congress.
The name of the concept that gives the federal government power, and the states power.
What is federalism?
This President tried to take over the nation's steel mills during the conflict in Korea. The Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional.
Who is Truman?
This is the primary purpose of the legislative branch.
What is to make laws?
This part of the federal bureaucracy is one of the nation's oldest military organizations.
What is the National Guard?
Senators serve for this many years before elections.
What is six?
John Adams once said, "We are a nation of THIS, not men."
What are laws?
In only four years, this 21st century President appointed three Supreme Court Justices, who were approved by the Senate.
Who is President Trump?
This part of government declares war.
What is Congress? (or, What is legislative branch?)
There are approximately 600,000 employees in this non-military federal agency, which has a presence in nearly every town in the United States.
What is the Post Office?
Vermont's Congress, known as the General Assembly, used this method to stop Governor Scott's veto of the increase in minimum wage.
What is an override?
Under the United States' first government, called the Articles of Confederation, states had a lot of power, but they did not have the ability to stop Shays' Rebellion because of this reason.
What is no military or no ability to tax?
Because Congress couldn't get a law passed, President Obama took executive action regarding this issue. The Supreme Court later overturned Obama's action as unconstitutional.
What is immigration?
This branch of government ruled that the 2020 Presidential election was legitimate.
What is the judicial?
This is the newest agency in the U.S. Department of Defense.
What is the Space Force?
Vermont's two U.S. Senators.
Who are Sanders, and Welch?
After he wrote in the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal, Jefferson said all humans are entitled to these three rights.
What is "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"?
In addition to Calvin Coolidge, this U.S. President was born in Vermont.
Who is Chester Arthur?
This specific part of government approves the directors of most of the departments in the United States.
What is the Senate?
The parent of the U.S. Forest Service.
What is the Department of Agriculture?
This concept prevents Congress, or the President, or the Supreme Court, from becoming too powerful.
What is checks and balances, or separation of powers?