Legislative Branch
This is the length of a Senator's term.
What is 6 years?
This is the length of a presidential term.
What is 4 years?
This determines whether a crime is a misdemeanor or a felony.
What is the severity of a crime?
This is the main reason that the Founders created a government with federalism.
What is to limit the power of the federal government?
This is the idea that each branch of the government should be able to have certain powers that ensure another branch does not become too powerful.
What is Checks and Balances?
This is how many Senators each state gets according to the Constitution.
What is 2?
This law enforcement agency is responsible for protecting the life of the President?
What is the Secret Service?
In a criminal case in the United States, the prosecuting attorney represents this person or body.
What is the government?
This elected official on the state level is the equivalent to the President on the national level.
What is the Governor?
This is where the federal government gets the majority of its revenue.
What is Income Taxes?
This part of Congress has the power to impeach a President.
What is the House of Representatives?
This group of individuals make up executive departments, are part of the executive branch, and provide advice to the President.
What is the Cabinet?
This power was given to the Supreme Court following the Marbury v Madison decision.
What is Judicial Review?
This amendment enshrined Federalism into the Constitution by transferring significant powers to the states.
What is the 10th Amendment?
Hiring a police chief and zoning laws are both examples of responsibilities of this level of government.
What is the city government?
This part of Congress has the power to put the impeached President on trial.
What is the Senate?
This is the type of court that a President cannot be sued in because it would lead to many distracting and meaningless lawsuits.
What is a Civil Court?
This alone can overturn a President's limited veto.
What is a 2/3rd majority vote in Congress?
In order for a law to be effective, it must relate to a society in this way.
What is the law should reflect the values of the society for which it is written?
A person accused of a crime is called this at the trial.
What is the Defendant?
In order to determine the proper number of representatives per state, the government will conduct this every 10 years to count the population.
What is a Census?
What is the 22nd Amendment?
According to the Constitution, this body has the ability to approve treaties.
What is the Senate?
Who is James Madison?
This term means that there is no government at all.
What is Anarchy?