By the Numbers
What is two?
This is where the president's cabinet operates.
What is the Executive Branch?
This agency oversees the activities of 230,000 workers from 22 agencies, including the Secret Service, border patrol, cybersecurity, and customs services. (2002)
What is the Department of Homeland Security (or the Secretary of Homeland Security)?
Protects the rights of individual citizens to keep and bear arms. Establishes a militia that is necessary for a free state.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
A U.S. Senator's term is this long.
What is six years?
What is 35?
This is where laws get made.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This department manages our nation's finances, is responsible for coining and printing of money, and enforces monetary laws.
What is the Department of the Treasury (or the Secretary of the Treasury)?
Abolished Slavery and involuntary servitude.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This state has the most electoral votes with 55, seventeen more than the state that comes in second.
What is California?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are the Bill of Rights, but there are more than ten amendments, in fact, there are this many.
What is 27?
This is where laws are declared unconstitutional.
What is the Judicial Branch?
This department is charged with foreign affairs, including participating in the United Nations, issuing passports, and running our foreign embassies.
What is the Department of State (or the Secretary of State)?
No person shall be elected to the office of president more than twice (2 terms).
What is the 22nd Amendment?
The Electoral College is made up of 538 members, 435 U.S. representatives, 100 senators, and three additional electoral votes for this voters of this place.
What is Washington D.C.?
Hey Congress, are you a little salty over the President's veto? Don't worry, you can override his veto as long as you have this fraction voting against it.
What is two-thirds?
This branch of government is discussed in Article 1 of the Constitution.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This department enforces laws of the United States in federal courts, conducts suits in which the U.S. is concerned, and is the chief legal officer of the federal government.
What is the Department of Justice (or the Attorney General)?
Prohibition. No alcoholic beverages can be bought or sold in the United States (to be later repealed).
U.S. Representatives serve for 2 years. The president serves for four years. How long do Supreme Court Justices serve?
So, you're a state with a tiny population, like South Dakota, Vermont, or Montana? The Constitution says you'll get this many representatives, the least number of representatives a state can have.
What is one?
This is where laws are interpreted and justice is administered.
This department conducts educational and research plans aimed at aiding farming. It also promotes legislation to help farmers and aids them with their problems. (1862)
What is the Department of Agriculture (or the Secretary of Agriculture)?
Establishes Congress's right to impose a federal income tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?
This is the name given to the process by which courts interpret the meaning of the Constitution and the laws passed under it.
What is judicial review?