House of Representatives
435 members
What is the total amount of Representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives?
100 senators
What is the total amount of senators in the U.S. Senate?
This gives Congress the power to stretch their authority to meet whatever is "necessary and proper"
What is the Elastic Clause?
The first 10 amendments or changes to the Constitution
What are the Bill of Rights?
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
This number of members is based on the population.
What is the number of Representatives each state has?
2 per state
What is the number of U.S. Senators that represent each state?
The power of the House of Representatives to formally charge a government official with wrongdoing.
What is an impeachment?
This amendment protects my freedom to speak freely and gives me the choice to worship or not worship a God.
What is the First Amendment?
Thomas Jefferson was really inspired by this guy when writing the Declaration of Independence with his idea of Life, Liberty and Property.
Who is John Locke?
2 year term
What is the amount of years a state Representative serves in the U.S. House of Representatives?
6 year term
What is the amount of years a senators serves in office.
To Create a National Ban and Gun Control Laws
What are examples of implied powers of the Legislative Branch?
This gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
This thinker believed that if one person or group held all the legislative, executive, and judicial powers the people would lose their freedom.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
25 years of age
What is the age a Representative has to be to run for the U.S. House of Representatives?
30 years old or older
What is the age to run for the U.S. Senate?
This helps balance the power by checking the president's authority of making nominations to certain offices.
What is the Senate's approval?
Where are our rights found?
In the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution
According to this guy the main benefit of the social contract was to protect the people's rights under the law.
Who is Jean Jacques Rousseau?
You must be this for 7 years to run for a Representative in the U.S. House of Representatives
What is the number of years you have to be a citizen of the United States?
You must be this for 9 years to run for U.S. Senate
What is the number of years you have to be a citizen of the United States?
To prevent Congress from making an act illegal after the fact.
What is an ex post facto law?
This is the amount of times the Constitution has been changed or amended
What is 27 times?
This is when people live where everyone is out for themselves. Everyone can get what they want however they want but you are always living looking over your shoulder.
What is the State of Nature?