Legislative Branch
Executive Branch
Judicial Branch and Amendments
State Gov't. and Amendment
Potpourri
100
The two parts of Congress
What is the Senate and the House?
100
The age you have to be to be president.
What is 35 years old?
100
The highest court in the land.
What is the Supreme Court?
100
The head of the executive branch is called the ________. Thank you Rick.
What is the governor?
100
The Republican frontrunners to become the Republican nominee to run against Obama.
What are Romney, Gingrich, and Santorum?
200
The number of sections in Article 1 that deal with the Legislative Branch.
What is 10?
200
The president's responsibilities.
What is chief of executive branch, commander in chief, head of state, director of foreign policy, guardian of the economy, and legislative leader?
200
The number of Supreme Court judges.
What is 9 justices?
200
The state government has this many branches.
What is 3 branches?
200
The number of amendments we have to our Constitution.
What is 27?
300
This section describes some of Congress' powers like declaring war and borrowing money.
What is Section 8?
300
How a president is elected.
What is getting the 270 electoral votes from all the states, not the popular vote?
300
Two of the powers of the Supreme Court.
What is to declare court cases unconstitutional, their decision stands and cannot be challenged, etc.?
300
State Congress has to do what when they meet.
What is vote on bills becoming laws and then send them to the Governor for approval?
300
The team that won the Super Bowl's state has more or less Representatives in Congress than California's.
What is less representatives?
400
How we know the number of Senators and Representatives for each state.
2 Senators per state and the representatives depends on population (California 55 vs. Wyoming 1)
400
True or False. Since the president is in this branch, it truly has the most power out of all of the three. EXPLAIN WHY
What is False, all 3 branches of government balance each other out?
400
What the first 10 Amendments are called and why.
What is the Bill of Rights because it lists our personal freedoms?
400
The governor has to show up at what kind of events?
What is awards, openings, speeches, etc.
400
The last state to be entered into the United States.
What is Hawaii in 1959, same year as Alaska but a difference of months?
500
Congress' role in making a bill a law.
Getting a majority vote and then sending it to the President to approve, if vetoed the bill goes back to Congress for a 2/3 majority vote?
500
The term "the President wears many hats."
What is the fact that the President has so many roles and duties as the chief of the executive branch?
500
Explain the significance of the 5th Amendment.
What is the right to remain silent and to wait to say anything that could be held against you before a lawyer is present and also Double Jeopardy?
500
Why were amendments established?
What is to be able to change or add on to the Constitution?
500
Mr. Demerath could run for governor in Texas according to the requirements.
What is yes?
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