Congress
What is the Senate?
What is the name of the intoduction to the Constitution
The Preamble
A group of people that were hesitant to ratify the Constitution because it did not include a Bill of Rights.
Who are anti-Federalists
Number of senators that serve each state.
What is 2?
How the Constitution keeps any one branch from becoming too powerful.
What are checks and balances?
The President of the Senate providing a tiebreaker.
Who is the Vice President of the United States.
The first 10 Amendments in the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
A common phrase when someone declares their right to avoid testifying against themselves.
What is "I plead the 5th"?
The maximum number of years a person can serve as the President of the United States.
What is 10 years?
A group of Great Depression Era programs that expanded bureaucracy to an all-time high.
What is the New Deal
The governing body that confirms Presidental appointments.
What is the Senate?
The leader of the executive branch.
Who is the President?
What is the 2nd Amendment?
The branch of government empowered to make laws.
What is the legislative branch?
3 basic rights listed in the Declaration of Independence
What is the Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Serves a 2-year term and is more sensitive to the interest of their constituents
What is a U.S. Representative?
The form of government guaranteed by the Constitution to every state in the Union.
What is a Republic?
Several of the Bill of Rights amendments protect this type of person against injustices.
What is the accused?
The number of US Representatives in the House.
What is 435?
The first system of government during the Revolutionary Era.
What are the Articles of Confederation
The chosen leader of the House of Representatives that is after the VP in the succession of the Presidency.
What is the Speaker of the House?
Article III establishes this branch.
What is the Judicial branch?
The entity from which the Bill of Rights listed in the Constitution protect citizens
The government
The division of power among different levels of government and separated powers within each level.
What is Federalism?
The part of the Constitution that provides for a bicameral Congress.