Federal, State, or Both?
Declaring war
What is federal?
The concept that stops one branch of government from obtaining too much power
What is checks and balances?
This principle of limited government is designed to prevent government abuse by making everyone follow the same rules and face the same penalties
The building in which both houses of Congress meet to conduct government business
What is the U.S. Capitol?
The document considered the Supreme Law of the Land in the United States
What is the U.S. Constitution?
The first three words of the Constitution
What are We The People?
Making laws
What is both?
The primary writer of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The three different branches of the U.S. government as outlined by the Constitution
What are executive, legislative, and judicial?
The length of a term for a member of the U.S. Senate
What is 6 years?
One of the main documents that influenced American government, the Magna Carta was originally written in this country
What is England (or Britain)?
What are religion, assembly, press, petition, and speech
Issuing driver's licenses
What is state?
The minimum age required to be President of the United States
What is 35?
The term we use in the United States for political factions or groups
What are political parties?
This system is used to elect the President of the United States and is based on the number of members a state has in Congress
What is the Electoral College?
The U.S. Bill of Rights was greatly influenced by this document and holds numerous direct similarities
What is the English Bill of Rights?
Per Article III of the Constitution, this is the term length of a federal judge
What is life?
Running elections
What is state?
The individual considered commander-in-chief of the military
Who is the President?
The system of two or more governments operating together and sharing powers over citizens designed to give more power to the governments closest to the citizen's day-to-day life
What is federalism?
The total number of individuals that comprise the U.S. Senate
What is 100?
The influential document created by the Pilgrims and named after the ship they used to travel to the new world
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The total number of amendments found in the U.S. Constitution
What is 27?
Levying taxes
What is both?
The term length we elect a member of the House of Representatives for
What is 2 years?
The proper term for powers that are shared between the federal and state governments
What are concurrent powers?
The majority of votes needed to override a presidential veto of a bill (can be a fraction or percent)
What is 2/3 (or 66%)
The highly influential pamphlet that argued for independence written by Thomas Paine
What is Common Sense?
The year in which the Constitution was written
What is 1787?