Basics of Government
This person is the leader of the executive branch.
Who is the president? (or Joe Biden)
This power is given to the president to stop a law from being enacted.
What is a veto?
This is America's system of electing president.
What is the electoral college?
This type of federalism, named after a type of cake, has the powers neatly and evenly split between the federal and state governments.
What is layer cake federalism?
By the end Inauguration day, who will be the acting Vice President of the United States?
Who is JD Vance? (aka the guy who pushed the cats and dogs eating rumor)
This is a power given to the Judicial branch to stop a law from continuing because it challenges the Constitution.
What is judicial review, or making something unconstitutional, or something like that?
This type of jurisdiction means the judge is the first person to hear the court case.
What is original jurisdiction?
At these events, competing presidential candidates argue over topics to show voters they are strong willed and understand the issues better than their opponents, or they look an absolute fool.
What is a debate?
This substance is technically considered illegal at the federal level, but has been made legal in many states, complicating federalism.
What is marijuana?
This was the topic of the project from the federalism unit.
What is a service project or service research or any variation of that?
This is the person who is the President of the Senate.
Who is the Vice President (or Kamala Harris)?
This person has the responsibility in the House of Representatives for acting as the individual to communicate their party's message to the media.
Who is the floor leader? (or majority leader/minority leader).
This is the name of the first election date, where candidates of the same party compete against each other to be the nominee.
What is the primary election?
This is the way that the government makes most of its money to eventually spend on its people.
What are taxes?
This is the coffeeshop that this Jeopardy was made in.
What is Peets?
This is the group that the president chooses to give him advice and run his departments.
Who are the Cabinet?
This term refers to the idea that judges look at cases from the past to make decisions in the present.
What is precedent?
This is name of someone who is pledged to vote for a candidate at the nominating convention to decide them as the party's nominee for the general election.
What is a delegate?
This is the name of the organization who came and presented during the Federalism unit and showed you all a watershed model.
What is the Don Edwards Wildlife Refuge? (will accept Don Edwards as the name)
Right before Christmas, 2 companies had thousands of employees go on strike to protest working conditions. Name 1 of the 2 companies.
What are Amazon and Starbucks?
This is the group that holds a confirmation hearing to approve presidential appointments?
Who is the Senate (cannot accept Congress)?
This person takes place of the President of the Senate, and doesn't really have extra responsibilities.
Who is the President Pro Tempore (or Patty Murray)?
This was the date of the general election from 2024.
What is Tuesday, November 5th (will accept if they say the first tuesday of November)?
For a government budget, this is the type of spending where those creating the budget have some choice over how to spend the money.
What is discretionary spending?
These 2 men will run a government program called the "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE) under the upcoming administration.
Who are Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk?