Vocabulary
A two-house legislature.
What is Bicameral?
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures...”
What is the 4th Amendment?
What kind of powers are listed by number in the Constitution?
What is an Enumerated Power?
What majority in the Congress is needed to override a presidential veto??
What is 2/3?
Which part of the government is most closely associated with advising the president?
What are Cabinet Departments?
To not allow to vote.
What is Disenfranchise?
“Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”
What is the 8th Amendment?
An expressed power is different from an implied power because…
What is Expressed powers are listed in the Constitution?
What role does Congress play in the appointment of the president’s cabinet?
What is Congress approves the nominations of the president’s cabinet?
What role of the president means they are in charge of 15 cabinet departments and more than 3 million government workers?
What is Chief Executive?
The ideas and attitudes that a significant number of Americans hold about government and political issues.
What is Public Opinion?
“No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without consent of the Owner, nor in time of war…”
What is the 3rd Amendment?
The power of the judicial review serves to allow the judicial branch to...
What is Check the Executive and Legislative Branches?
What is one power given to Congress in the Constitution?
What is Declare War?
What role of the president involves them being able to veto bills they do not want to pass?
What is Chief Legislator?
A paid representative of an interest group who contacts government officials on behalf of the interest group.
What is a Lobbyist?
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
What is the 10th Amendment?
How can power struggles occur in a divided government?
What is One party controls the White House and the other controls Congress?
Why did the Founders decide that revenue bills should originate in the House?
What is Representatives in the House serve two year terms, compelling them to be more responsive to the needs of the constituents?
Why did the Founders form the Electoral College?
They had doubts about the average person’s ability to select a candidate.
Focuses on presidential economic priorities; sent to Congress.
What is the Annual Budget?
“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed…”
What is the 6th Amendment?
During what kind of circumstance is the inherent power of the president most likely to expand?
What is a Struggling Economy?
Why did Congress pass the Wars Powers Act?
What is It wanted to limit the president’s ability to commit troops abroad without congressional approval?
What was the purpose for the Twelfth Amendment?
What is To change how people voted for the president and vice president?