Preamble
Insure domestic tranquility
Make sure there is peace within a country
Two houses of Congress
Senate and House of Representatives
What the executive can do with a bill
Sign it into law or veto it
True or False, an appellate court has a jury
False
Definition of Federalism
Power shared between federal and state levels of government
The highest court in the land and the only court in the US Constitution.
US Supreme Court
The people have the power
Powers listed in the US Constitution
Enumerated or Delegated or Expressed
The top advisors to the president
Cabinet
The power to declare a law unconstitutional
judicial review
State powers are called...
Reserved powers
Tom sues Jane for $10,000. What court do they go to?
The Florida County Court
A more perfect union
Make the USA stronger and united
Name 3 enumerated powers of the legislative branch
Lay and collect taxes, Regulate commerce, Coin money, borrow money, Establish post offices, Make laws, establish lower federal courts; punish counterfeiting, Declare war, raise and support an army and navy
Name 3 expressed powers
Make foreign policy, make treaties, appoint judges, cabinet, and ambassadors, Approve or veto Congress’s bills, Command the military, Grant pardons, enforce laws
Main job of the judicial branch
interpret and apply the law
Powers shared by both levels of government are called...
Concurrent Powers
Only court that is both trial and appellate
Florida Circuit Court
Promote the General Welfare
Do what is best for citizens, make sure everyone is healthy and prospering
Two ways the Senate checks the Executive
Ratify presidential appointments and treaties
The annual speech the President gives to Congress
The State of the Union
When the evidence in a case is so clear, that a judge decides it instead of going to trial
Summary judgement
Level of government that deals with education and licenses
State
US District Court
Secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity,
protect freedom for ourselves and our future generations
Powers that come from the necessary and proper clause
Implied Powers
The three things administrative agencies do
advise the executive, make regulations, and enforce laws and regulations
An order a higher court issues to a lower court to deliver its record in a case so that the higher court can review it.
writ certiorari
The Supremacy Clause says...
The US Constitution is the highest law in the land
County, Circuit, District Court of Appeal, Florida Supreme