Executive Branch
The President appoints people to this- the highest court in the land.
What is the Supreme Court/SCOTUS?
This is how old you must be to serve as a United States Senator.
What is 30 (years old)?
This is the number of Justices on the Supreme Court.
What is 9?
This is term refers to a legislature that has two houses/chambers.
What is bicameral (legislature)?
This is the formal name of the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This is the term limit (in years) for a United States President.
What is 4 years?
This is the number of representatives from North Carolina in the House of Representatives.
What is 14?
This is the term for a SCOTUS Justice.
What is life?
This is the term for bringing charges against a government official for misconduct.
What is impeachment?
This document created our nation's first national government.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
To run for President, you must be this age.
What is 35 (years old)?
This is the length of a Senator's term.
What is 6 years?
This is the number of Associate Justices on the Supreme Court.
What is 8?
This system of allowing government branches to limit each others' power is intended to protect against abuses of power.
What is checks and balances?
This man is the current Governor of North Carolina.
Who is Josh Stein?
The executive branch can check the legislative branch with this action that strikes down bills.
What is a veto?
This is the total number of representatives in the House of Representatives.
What is 435?
The judicial branch checks the other branches with their ability to declare laws and actions unconstitutional- this two-word term.
What is judicial review?
This term refers to how power is divided amongst the three branches of government.
What is separation of powers?
This is the number of states that was needed to ratify the Constitution.
What is 9 (out of 13)?
This is the number of votes in the Electoral College needed to become President.
What is 270?
This majority (fraction) is what is needed in both houses to override a President's veto.
What is 2/3?
This man is the current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Who is John Roberts?
This term refers to how power is divided between federal, state, and local governments.
What is federalism?
This is the current total number of Amendments to the Constitution.
What is 27?