Basics of Government
This person is the leader of the executive branch.
Who is the president?
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 organization is the place we went to for community service.
What is Second Harvest?
Who is the current Vice President of the United States?
Who is JD Vance?
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 is the country whose leader our government kidnapped and brought to the United States.
What is Venezuela?
This is the person who is the President of the Senate.
Who is the Vice President?
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 term associated with an individual seeking to make change within their community without being apart of the government.
What is activism/an activist?
This was the holiday that I created an altar for in the corner.
What is Dia de los muertos?
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?
This is the day of the week that general elections take place.
What is Tuesday?
This amendment to the Constitution was also the title of the documentary we watched on prison reform.
What is the 13th amendment?
This was groups in the final presentations whose country I was the leader of.
What is 1?