President
The tool a President may use to implement policy that has not been passed by Congress.
What is an Executive Order?
The check on the power of the President that must begin in the House of Representatives and would result in the President's removal from office.
What is impeachment?
The number of Senators in each state.
What is 2?
The "inalienable rights" included in the Declaration of Independence.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
The number of British colonies in America.
What is 13?
The only President to serve more than two terms.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
The age requirement for the House of Representatives.
What is 25?
Agreements between the United States and other nations that must be approved (or ratified) by the Senate.
What are treaties?
The supreme commander of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
As an example of this right, Mr. Leonard is not required to testify at his own criminal trial.
What is the right against self incrimination?
The number of years a Presidential candidate must be a citizen of the United States.
What is 14?
The basis for the number of Representatives in each state.
What is state population?
The term for a Senator delaying or blocking passage of a bill by making a long speech.
What is filibuster?
The first capital of the United States.
What is New York City?
He said, "Government of the people, by the people for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The type of election in which the leading candidate from a political party is chosen.
What is a primary?
The number of members of the House of Representatives.
What is 435?
The Vice President's job in the Senate.
What is President of the Senate?
The first governing document of the America following the Revolutionary War.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The group whose votes elect the President and Vice President.
What is the Electoral College?
The term for a President choosing not to sign a bill that has passed Congress when Congress is not in session.
What is pocket veto?
A very rare process in the House of Representatives to choose a President if no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes.
What is a contingent election?
The leader of the Senate when the Vice President is absent.
What is president pro tempore?
The "threat" that the Founders feared if they created a pure democracy.
What is mob rule?
A person's ability to renew his driver's license is eliminated without a hearing or trial. This is a violation of this Constitutional principle.
What is due process?