The branches of government
The number of branches of the US government.
What is three?
The head of the Executive branch.
Who is the President?
The most powerful court in the country.
What is the Supreme Court?
The two houses of the Legislative branch, the House of Representatives and the Senate, are collectively known as this.
What is Congress?
"We the People" is the famous first phrase of this section of the constitution.
What is the preamble?
This branch of government enforces laws.
What is the executive branch?
The presidential election is determined by the electoral college, not by this, a voting system where the candidate with the most individual votes wins.
What is the popular vote?
If a judge determines that a law is illegal, that law can be called this.
What is unconstitutional?
This is what the Legislative branch writes up and debates; if the president signs it, it becomes a law.
What is a bill?
The system by which each branch of government has power over the other two branches.
What are checks and balances?
This branch of government makes laws.
What is the legislative branch?
If Congress approves a bill, the president has the option to reject it, a power known as this.
What is veto power?
This person nominates Supreme court justices whom Congress has the option to approve.
Who is the president?
If an elected official takes a bribe, commits treason, or breaks any other law, Congress can vote to oust them from office in a process known as this.
What is impeachment?
The US is not a true democracy--this is a country where citizens elect officials to run the government on their behalf.
What is a republic?
This branch of government decides what laws mean and interprets the Constitution.
What is the judicial branch?
The Executive branch is tasked with making these agreements between the US government and the government of other nations.
What are treaties?
Not so fast! When a president issues an executive order, the courts can declare it unconstitutional, a process known as this.
What is judicial review?
While representatives are elected every two years, senators serve for this many years before their next election.
What is six?
The Constitution contains this many articles.
What is 7?
The primary reason for the founders dividing power among three branches.
What is to prevent one person or group of people from becoming too powerful?
Though Stephen Miller says otherwise, the President does not have this type of authority, the ability to make decisions with no oversight or checks on his power.
What is plenary authority?
If a low court grants a verdict you don't like, you can issue one of these, a chance for a higher court to take your side.
What is an appeal?
As the Legislative branch approves how much money the government is allowed to spend in a given year, it is commonly said that they are given this alliterative phrase.
What is the power of the purse?
The Federalist Papers were a series of essays written by these 3 men.
Who are John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison?