Legislative Branch
This is the name of the two houses that make up Congress.
What is the House of Representatives and the Senate?
The head of the Executive Branch.
Who is the President?
This is the highest court in the United States.
What is the Supreme Court?
This branch of government can declare laws unconstitutional.
What is the Judicial Branch?
Federalists wanted this type of government.
What is a strong central government?
The number of Senators each state has.
What is two?
The group that officially elects the President.
What is the Electoral College?
The number of justices on the Supreme Court.
What is nine?
This branch can override a presidential veto with a two-thirds vote.
What is the Legislative Branch (Congress)?
The Anti-Federalists wanted this added to the Constitution to protect individual rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This branch of government has the power to make laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
The President can reject a bill from Congress using this power.
What is a veto?
The power of the Supreme Court to decide if a law is constitutional.
What is judicial review?
The President has this power over Supreme Court Justices.
What is the power to appoint them?
This man was one of the leading Federalists and helped write the Federalist Papers.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
The term length for a member of the House of Representatives.
What is two years?
The President is also known as this leader of the armed forces.
What is Commander in Chief?
Justices of the Supreme Court serve for this length of time.
What is life (or until they retire or are removed)?
Congress has this power over a President who commits a crime or abuses power.
What is impeachment?
The Anti-Federalists feared this government branch would become too powerful.
What is the Executive Branch (the President)?
The presiding officer of the Senate, who votes only in case of a tie.
Who is the Vice President of the United States?
The President can issue these, which act like laws but do not require Congress’s approval.
What are executive orders?
The branch of government responsible for interpreting laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
The Senate must approve these made by the President with foreign nations.
What are treaties?
The Federalists and Anti-Federalists debated over this important document before it was ratified.
What is the U.S. Constitution?