Members of Government
The head of the Executive Branch.
What is the President?
The lawmaking part of government.
What is Judicial Review?
How the federal government gains its powers.
What are enumerated powers?
This branch, nominates Supreme Court Justices.
What is the executive branch?
An idea/proposal for a law.
What is a bill?
Where the U.S. Constitution was created.
What is Philadelphia?
The number of members that serve on the Supreme Court.
What is 9 Justices?
This branch carries out the law.
What is the Executive Branch?
How the state governments gain their powers.
What is reserved powers?
This branch has the power to overturn presidential vetoes.
What is the Legislative Branch?
The reason the idea of Separation of Powers was incorporated for our Federal government.
What is to divide the powers and prevent one branch from gaining too much power?
The President of the Convention and the Father of the Constitution. (Hint: Not the same person)
Who is George Washington & James Madison?
The number of Senators per state.
What is 2 Senators?
The specific term for the Judicial Branch's main power.
What is Judicial Review?
This type of government deals with license, marriage, and school requirements.
What is state governments?
The power the President has if he does not agree with a proposed law.
What is Veto?
A change/addition to the Constitution.
What is an amendment?
The most important rule at the Constitutional Convention.
What is the rule of secrecy?
The two houses of the Legislative Branch/Congress.
What is the House of Representatives and Senate?
How the justices of the Supreme Court take office.
What is appointed by the President?
This type of government deals with declaring war, treaties, postal service, trade, and raising the military.
What is the federal government?
The document the Judicial Branch makes sure the other two branches are following/abiding by.
The Constitution.
The introduction to the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
What the Anti-Federalists wanted to be added to the Constitution.
The Bill of Rights
The number of members that make up the Legislative Branch.
What is 535 members?
The age and citizenship requirement to become the President.
What is 35 years old and natural born citizen?
2 shared powers of the federal and state governments.
What is:
Punish lawbreakers
Maintain roads
Levy and collect taxes
Civil Rights and Liberties
Protect Public Health?
This branch has the power to impeach and use it on this branch.
What is the Legislative Branch on the Executive Branch?
The first form of government for the U.S.
Select a member to recite the Preamble word for word!
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."