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This branch makes laws and is made up of Congress.
What is the Legislative Branch?
Declaring War
What is Enumerated Power
The term used when the President says no to a bill.
What is veto?
This clause says the Constitution is the "supreme law of the land".
What is the Supremacy Clause?
This is the term used to describe a change to the Constitution.
What is Amendment?
This is made up of the President, Vice-President, and his Cabinet.
What is the Executive Branch?
Taxes, Creating Banks, and Maintaining Roads
What are concurrent powers?
Congress can remove the President through this process.
What is impeachment?
Congress uses this clause to stretch its powers when needed.
What is the Necessary and Proper (Elastic) Clause?
An Amendment needs approval by this fraction of both houses of Congress to be proposed.
What is 2/3rds?
This branch interprets the laws and is made up of the Supreme Court and lower federal courts.
What is the judicial branch?
Schools and Driver's Licences
What are reserved powers?
The power of the courts to declare a law unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
This clause gives Congress the power to regulate trade between states, foreign countries, and Indian Tribes.
What is the Commerce Clause?
This fraction of states must approve a new amendment for ratification.
What is 3/4ths?
What is the Senate and House of Representatives?
Building the Interstate Highway System is an example of this type of power.
What are Implied powers?
This is how Congress checks the President if he vetoes a bill.
What is overriding the veto with a 2/3rds vote?
This is the section of the Constitution where Enumerated Powers and the Necessary and Proper Clause are located.
What is Article I, Section 8?
This Supreme Court case established Judicial Review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This is how the structure of the House of Representatives is different from the Senate.
What is representation in the House is based on population, and the Senate has equal representation?
What is each branch can limit the power of the others, forcing cooperation and preventing abuse of power?
The Supreme Court used the Supremacy Clause in McCullough v Maryland (1819) to prove this.
What is that the federal government had the power to create a bank and the states could not tax it because Federal Law is supreme?
The amendment process was created to be difficult for this reason.
What is to make sure only widely supported, important changes were made to the Constitution?