Two Houses of Power, One Congress to Rule Them All
The number of representatives for each state in the House of Representative is determined by this.
This is the number of terms a President can serve, and the Amendment where that can be found.
What is two terms of four years, and the 22nd Amendment.
This article outlines the powers and duties of the Supreme Court.
What is Article III?
The Constitution guarantees this kind of government to every state.
What is a republic?
This person has been called the Father of the Constitution, even though he started out as a small, pale, sickly boy with a weak voice.
Who is James Madison?
The number of years in the term of a Senator.
What is 6 years?
These are the three qualifications given in the Constitution allowing a person to become the President of the United State.
What are: being at least 35 years old, a resident of the United States for at least 14 years, and a natural born citizen of the United States?
This term describes the power of the courts to interpret the meaning of laws and resolve disputes arising under them.
What is judicial power?
Article VII of the Constitution explains the process for this.
What is the ratification process?
This state refused to send delegates to the Constitutional Convention and was the last to ratify the Constitution.
What is Rhode Island?
This is where you can find the powers given to Congress.
What is Article I, Section 8, Clauses 1-18 of the United State Constitution?
This term refers to the act of levying war against the United States or aiding its enemies, and it is the only crime specifically defined in the U.S. Constitution.
What is treason?
Article III, Section 2 discusses this term, describing the authority of a court to hear a case.
What is jurisdiction?
To amend the Constitution, two-thirds of Congress must propose it, and this fraction of the states must approve it.
What is three-fourths?
This the preamble to the Constitution.
What is "We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
This person is the President of the Senate, and deciding vote in the case of a tie.
Who is the Vice President?
These are the three things the President can be impeached and convicted of, according to Article II, Section 4.
What are treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors?
The term "judicial review", discussed during the lecture on Marbury v. Madison, grants the Supreme Court the power to do this.
What is determine whether laws or executive actions are constitutional?
According to Article VI, this cannot be required to hold a public office in the United States.
What is a religious test or requirement?
This document came before the Constitution, and failed because it gave too little power to the federal government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This is the procedure for making a bill become a law, after it has been vetoed by the President.
What is override the veto with a 2/3 vote in favor of the bill by both the House and the Senate.
What are preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States?
What is Article III, Section 3, aka the Treason Clause?
Who is George Washington?
This compromise settled how slaves would be counted for representation, and for taxes.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?