3 Branches
Vocab. 1
Vocab. 2
The Constitution
3 Branches 2
100
This branch of government is made up of 2 parts called the congress.
What is the legislative branch?
100
These are changes to the Constitution.
What are amendments?
100
Supreme Court judges are called this.
What are justices?
100
The Constitution begins with these famous three words.
What is "We the people..."
100
The number of members of the House of Representatives is based on this.
What is population?
200
He is the head of the executive branch.
Who is the President (& VP)?
200
This is a group chosen by citizens to vote for the President.
What is the electoral college?
200
This is another word for "approve."
What is "ratify?"
200
This was the year the Constitution was written.
What is 1787?
200
These are the two parts of Congress.
What are the House of Representatives & the Senate?
300
There are __________members in the House of Representatives.
What is 435?
300
Dividing the powers of the government into 3 branches is called this.
What is separation of powers?
300
This is another word for reject.
What is veto?
300
This section of the Constitution, added in 1791, tells what rights the people have.
What is the Bill of Rights?
300
This is the head of the judicial branch.
What is the Supreme Court?
400
There are __________senators per state.
What is 2?
400
Advisors to the President are known as the _________.
What is the cabinet?
400
This is known as the court system in the US.
What is the judicial branch?
400
The people who wrote the Constitution were known as this.
Who were the framers?
400
This branch makes the laws.
What is the legislative branch?
500
This is the duty of the judicial branch.
What is "to interpret the laws."
500
These were citizens who favored the Constitution when it was being written.
Who were the federalists?
500
These were people who were against the Constitution when it was being written.
Who were the anti-federalists?
500
He is considered the "father of the Constitution" because he wrote a lot of it.
Who was James Madison?
500
There are ___________justices on the Supreme Court.
What is 9?
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