Article 1
This branch of government is established in Article I of the Constitution.
What is the Legislative Branch?
Article II of the Constitution establishes this position as the head of the Executive Branch.
Who is the President?
Article III of the Constitution establish this branch of government.
What is the Judicial Branch?
This is the longest and most detailed Article.
What is Article 1?
The number of representatives for each state in the House of Representatives is determined by this...
What is state population?
The US has a bicameral legislature with this many houses make up Congress called the _______ and the _____________.
What are two, the House of Representatives and the Senate?
This is the term length for the president and there is also a limit to the number of terms a president can hold office which is?
What is 4 years and 2 terms?
This is the name of the highest court in the United States, established under Article III.
What is the Supreme Court?
This is the system that ensures no branch becomes too powerful by giving each branch the ability to limit the powers of the others.
What is checks and balances?
In US presidential elections the process is defined in the Constitution and includes this institution, although not a university, that is responsible for 'electing' the president.
What is the electoral college?
This is the term length for members of the House of Representatives and this is the length for the Senate.
What is 2 for the House and 6 for the Senate?
This is the minimum age requirement to become President, as outlined in Article II.
What is 35 years old?
Supreme Court judges, under Article III, serve for this term length.
What is for life? (They may be removed and may also retire.)
How many voting members are in Congress - Senate, House, and total?
What are 100 senators, 435 representatives, for a total of 535 voting members.
This branch has the power to propose amendments to the Constitution, and this fraction of both houses is needed to propose something.
What is Legislative, with a two-thirds vote in both the House and the Senate?
Which is NOT a function of Congress - lawmaking, representation, pardoning the unjustly accused, service to constituents, oversight, public education, or conflict resolution.
What is pardoning the unjustly accused?
There are two of the many powers of the President.
What are -
This many justices currently sit on the Supreme Court.
What is nine?
If both the President and Vice President can no longer serve, this person is next in line for the presidency.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
Article I allows Congress to regulate commerce with foreign nations, among the states, and specifically with these groups which exist, and have existed, in every US state.
What are Native American tribes?
This is one power the Senate has but the House doesn't.
What is to conduct impeachment trials, ratify treaties, and approve officials appointed to offices and posts in government?
What reasons might a president be impeached - besides that the other party hates them... which is NOT in the Constitution :) ?
What is treason, bribery, other high crimes, and misdemeanors.
This is the only crime specifically mentioned in the Constitution.
What is treason?
This branch is responsible for confirming Supreme Court nominees.
What is the legislature (specifically the Senate)?
A legal procedure that allows a prisoner to challenge the legality of their detention. The term comes from Latin and literally translates to "you should have the body".
What is habeas corpus?