The Constitution
This enlightenment thinker heavily influenced the founding fathers in creating the US government and is most well known for his ideas of natural rights -- life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
These two houses make up the US Congress
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
This authority is the head of the executive branch.
This is highest court in the US.
What is the Supreme Court?
This part of the government is responsible for writing federal bills to be signed into law by the President.
What is Congress/Legislative Branch?
This (long) first sentence of the Constitution provides an outline of the goals that United States government must achieve
What is the Preamble
The total number of US Senators in Congress
What is 100?
This is a specific role/power of the President.
Answers vary.
What is: Commander and chief, head of state, veto bills, sign bills into law, executive order, foreign policy/head diplomat, among others
This is the number of Justices on the Supreme Court.
What is 9?
This term or phrase refers to the ability of each branch of government to limit the powers of the other.
What is checks and balances?
This is one of the enumerated/delegated powers of Congress specifically granted by the Constitution
Answers vary. What is: levy taxes, borrow money, establish post offices, declare war, raise armies, create federal courts, coin money, regulate trade between states
This number represents the total number of members in the US House of Representatives
What is 435?
This is one way the Legislative Branch can check the power of the President.
Answers vary.
What is: Reject presidential nominations, override presidential veto, refuse/limit funding for executive initiatives, etc
The maximum amount of time that a Justice may serve on the US Supreme Court.
What is life?
This term is used to refer to the division and sharing of power between federal and state governments.
What is federalism?
Articles 1, 2, and 3 of the US Constitution outline these.
What are the 3 branches of government?
This characteristic of a state is what determines how many Representatives a state will have in the US House of Representatives
What is population size?
This is one way the President can check the power of the legislative branch
Answers vary.
What is: Veto bills, issue executive orders
This power of the Supreme Court allows them to determine whether the laws and decisions made by Congress and the President abide by the Constitution.
What is Judicial Review?
This term refers to the powers that are granted to state governments
What are reserved powers?
Article 6 of the US Constitution identifies this as the "supreme law of the land" as.
The Constitution (and all laws made in pursuance of it)
US Senators serve terms that last this long.
What is 6 years?
In addition to the President, these others are also included as part of the executive branch. (At least 2)
Who is: the Vice President, Cabinet, Agencies and Departments
Although it sometimes may be granted original jurisdiction, the Supreme Court most often hears cases within this type of jurisdiction.
What is Appellate?
This term refers to the powers that are granted to the federal government by the Constitution.
What are delegated/enumerated/expressed powers?