Preamble
What are the first three words of the Preamble?
What is "We the People"?
What branch of government does Article I of the Constitution establish?
Legislative
What branch of government does Article II of the Constitution establish?
Executive
This branch is established by Article III.
What is the Judicial Branch?
True or False: Article VII regards ratification of the Constitution.
True
What year was the Constitution written AND where was it written (city)
What are 1787 and Philadelphia?
What is the job of the legislative branch?
Makes laws
What is the job of the executive branch?
Enforces laws
This is the head of the Judicial Branch.
What is the Supreme Court?
Which article has the clause that talks about how states are required to respect one another's laws?
What is Article IV?
How many purposes of government are shown in the Preamble?
What is six?
We have a two house Congress because of what? (this solved the dispute between large and small states at the Constitutional Convention)
What is the Great Compromise?
Who is the President?
This is the job of the Judicial Branch.
What is interpret laws?
What Article of the Constitution contains the Supremacy clause?
What is Article VI?
Within the Preamble, who does "posterity" refer to?
Future generations of Americans.
Regarding Congress, the word bicameral means what?
What is it has two houses?
This is the "people's house"; the house where the President lives and works.
What is the White House?
This is the word that describes something going against the constitution.
What is unconstitutional?
The Supremacy Clause within Article VI of the Constitution says this.
What is Federal law will overrule state law when they conflict?
What did the Constitution replace? To "form a more perfect union"?
AoC
What are the two houses of Congress?
The Senate & House of Representatives
Under the Articles of Confederation, laws couldn't be enforced because this didn't exist.
What is an executive branch?
These are two things of government officials the Supreme Court can declare unconstitutional.
According to Article V, how much of Congress has to propose an amendment to the Constitution and how many states then have to approve it?
What is 2/3 and 3/4, or 38?