Amendments
This amendment protects your right to free speech, religion, assembly, and press.
What is the first amendment?
This branch of government includes the commander in chief.
What is the executive branch?
These people have life time appointments
What is the Supreme Court/Judicial Branch?
Every bill starts off this way.
What is an idea/thought?
This is the breaking up of powers at local, state and national levels.
What is Federalism?
This is what the 23rd amendment does.
This branch of government has the most people involved.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This is the point of checks and balances.
What is to maintain equality so one branch of government does not have more power than another?
True or False: Only the Senate or the House of Representatives has to sign off on a bill.
What is false?
He is the Father of Federalism
Who is John Marshall?
This amendment does not protect prisoners from slave labor.
What is the 13th amendment?
These are 2 powers of the executive branch
What is:
- being commander in chief
- appointing supreme court justices
- vetoes bills
- issues pardons
- interprets meanings of laws
- call special sessions of congress
The Judicial branch checks the Executive and Legislative Branch in the same way.
What is declaring actions unconstitutional.
Name one way a bill can fail.
What is:
-get vetoed by the president?
- no action?
- pocket veto?
- never makes it out of congress/to the president's desk?
______ powers can set up post offices and have DC become a state.
What is National?
These amendments are encompassed by Miranda Rights.
“You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you. Do you understand the rights I have just read to you? With these rights in mind, do you wish to speak to me?”
What are the 5th and 6th amendments?
This branch of government is essential in passing a bill into law, a bill can not be a law without this branch.
What is the Legislative branch?
This is one way the Legislative Branch checks the Executive Branch.
What is:
- Override veto
- impeach the president
- declares war
- confirms white house appointments
If a bill starts in the senate and gets assigned a subcommittee, this is the next step.
What is goes to the House (of Representatives)?
These powers are comparable to teens and parents making decisions together.
What are shared powers between state and national government?
Heather wants to be a nudist because she likes seeing her body in the sun, this amendment protects that right.
What is the 9th amendment?
This branch of government is not involved with the law making process. They deal with laws after the fact.
What is the judicial branch?
It takes a 2/3s vote in the Legislative branch to do this.
What is:
- impeach the president?
- override a presidential veto?
What is false?
These are 3 examples of state powers.
What is:
- maintain the state militia (National Guard)
- determine qualifications for voters
- establish schools
- regulate intrastate commerce
- govern marriage laws
- conduct elections