Legislative
What article of the Constitution is the Legislative Branch?
Article 1
What article of the Constitution is the Executive Branch?
Article 2
What article of the Constitution is the Judicial Branch?
Article 3
What does checks and balances mean?
The system we have in government that allows each branch to have certain rights or powers over another branch
9, so there is no tie
What is the main job of the Legislative Branch?
To make laws
What is the main job of the Executive Branch?
To execute (enforce) laws
What is the main job of the Judicial Branch?
To interpret laws (make sure laws are constitutional)
How does the judicial branch check the legislative branch?
By declaring acts/laws passed by Congress unconstitutional
What is the minimum amount of seats a state can have in the House of Representatives?
1
What are the two parts of the Legislative Branch?
What do they make up?
Congress
What are the three main parts of the Executive Branch?
President
Vice President
Cabinet
What are the 3 levels of the federal and state court systems?
Start at district courts, then circuit courts, then the Supreme Court
How does the Executive branch check the judicial branch?
By appointing judges/justices
By granting pardons and reprieves
What does Senate act like for the President?
His mom
Each state gets 2 people for Senate, and for the House of Representatives, it is based on state population, so some states get more seats than others
Name 2 of the Presidents Positions
Chief of the Party
Chief of State
Commander in Chief
Chief Economist
Chief Diplomat
Chief Executive
Chief Legislator
What does jurisdiction mean?
Which court has original jurisdiction?
The right to hear a case
The district courts have original jurisdiction
How does the Legislative branch check the Executive Branch?
By overriding presidential vetoes
By impeaching and convicting a president
By approving the annual budget
By approving presidential appointments.
What is it called when there are powers explicitly stated in the constitution for each branch?
What is it called when branches get powers that aren't stated in the constitution
Expressed powers
Implied powers (or inherited powers)
What are the requirements to be a House member or Senate member?
House: 25, citizen for 7 years, and resident of state
Senate: 30, citizen for 9 years, and resident of state
Name 3 Cabinet Positions
Vice President and the heads of 15 executive departments — the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs, and the Attorney General
What supreme court case established judicial review, the ability for the court to declare a law unconstitutional.
Marbury v Madison (1803)
What is separation of powers? Why does our government have it?
It is the fact that we have three branches of government. Each branch has a job to do, and each branch uses checks and balances to keep other branches in line. We have separation of powers to make sure that not one branch becomes too powerful, that way there is no tyranny and monarchical kinds who have absolute power.
When would you go to a Federal court house instead of a state court house?
Issues with people from different states
Issues between states
Patents and Copyright
International issues
Maritime law (the sea)