Lawmakers - Legislative Branch
Another name for the legislative branch.
What is Congress?
The current United States president's name.
What is Donald Trump?
What is the Supreme Court?
The United States' first Constitution was called this.
What is Articles of Confederation?
This word describes how the people establish government, it is also the beginning of the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
This state has the most representatives in the house.
What is California?
The 3 parts to the executive branch.
What is president, vice president, and cabinet?
The length of time a Supreme Court judge can keep his/her job.
What is forever?
These Americans were represented at the Constitutional Convention.
What is white men who owned land?
The basic rights of the people are called this.
What is Bill of Rights?
An agreement made between large states and small states regarding how much power states would have under the United States Constitution; it helped determine how each of the US states was to be represented in Congress.
What is the Great Compromise?
The official ceremony to make someone president.
A Supreme Court judge gets their job from this.
What is the president appoints him/her?
The states compromised about slavery by doing this.
What is every 5 enslaved people counted as three people (3/5 vote)?
In this kind of government, the people hold the power.
What is a democracy?
The number of years that is a term for a representative in the House of Representatives.
What is 2 years?
The age you have to be at least to be president.
What is 35 years old?
The number of Supreme Court judges the USA has.
What is 9?
The year the Constitution was signed.
What is 1787?
The powers of each branch of government are limited by these.
What are checks and balances?
The number of years that is a term for a senator in the Senate.
What is 6 years?
What is 4 years?
The job of the Supreme Court is to do this with the Constitution.
What is interpret?
This leader is known as the "father of the Constitution."
Who is James Madison?
A _____________ is a government in which people elect leaders to represent them.
What is a republic?