Constitution
The supreme law of the land in the United States
What is the Constitution?
The term that denotes 3 branches of government.
What is separation of powers?
Who is the Commander-in-Chief?
The number of voting members in the House of Representatives
What is 435?
The person who steps in if the President can no longer serve
Who is the Vice-president?
The first African-American Supreme Court Justice?
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
The idea that Supreme Court Justices and Federal judges serve for life and cannot have their salaries decreased
What is Judicial Independence?
The first 3 words of the Constitution, which capture the idea of self-government
What are, "We the People?"
The branch of government Article I of the Constitution deals with
What is the Legislative Branch?
Who has the ability to make federal laws
Who are Congress?
What is the Legislative branch?
The number of years a U.S. president is elected for
What are 4 years?
Signs bills to become laws
Who is the President?
The 44th President of the United States?
Who is Barack Obama?
The idea that the Supreme Court has the last word on Constitutional interpretation.
What is Judicial Supremacy?
An addition or change to the Constitution
What is an amendment?
The article in the Constitution dealing with the Executive Branch
What is Article II?
What are the names of the two houses of Congress?
What are the House of Representatives & the Senate?
The number of U.S. senators
What is 100?
If the President does not agree with a bill presented to him by Congress, he can do this
What is "veto the bill?"
Current Speaker of the House
Who is Nancy Pelosi?
The idea that the Supreme Court has the power to review the constitutionality of federal and state laws, and acts of the Executive Branch.
The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution
What are the Bill of Rights?
System the founding fathers put in place to keep any one branch of government from becoming too powerful
What is Checks & Balances?
How many votes does it take to override a veto?
What is 2/3 votes of each House of Congress?
How many years does a U.S. Representative serve in office?
What are 2 years (representatives)?
The job of the judicial branch
What is to interpret laws?
Vice-President under Donald Trump?
Who is Michael Pence?
The idea that the U.S. Constitution and Federal Law is superior to state law.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
The number of amendments in the Constitution
What is 27?
Which branch of the government interprets the Constitution?
What is the Judicial branch?
The idea that power is divided by and shared between the federal government and the states.
What is federalism?
How many years does a Senator serve in office?
What is 6 years?
Specifically, who has the power to approve presidential appointments?
What is the Senate?
Who is considered to be the father of the Constitution?
Who is James Madison?
The idea that once a case has been decided by the Supreme Court, for all practical purposes, the law is settled and should be followed by other courts.
What is Precedent?
The formal name of the "elastic" clause.
What is the "necessary and proper" clause?
Which branch of government did the framers attempt to make most powerful?
What is Congress?
What is the term that defines two houses in one Congress?
What is Bicameralism?
The month when presidential elections are held in the United States
What is November?
Bills dealing with revenue (money) must start here.
What is the U.S. House of Representatives?
Who is the newest member of the Supreme Court?
Who is Ketanji Brown-Jackson?
The term that describes the process by which the Senate approves Presidential appointments.
What is "Advice and Consent"?
The first major compromise made when the Constituion was written.
What is two houses of Congress?
The founders wanted this branch to be the weakest.
What is the Judicial Branch?
What is a Filibuster?
The number of votes it takes to stop unlimited Senate debate.
What is 60?
Who is Congress?
The first Hispanic Justice on the Supreme Court.
Who is Sonia Sotomayor?
Senate reaches enough votes to stop unlimited debate.
What is Cloture?