Legislative Branch
The amount of senators.
What is 100?
What is 4 years?
Requirements to be a Supreme Court Justice.
What is none?
House of Congress that approves Senate appointments.
What is the Senate?
Number of hearts an octopus has.
What is three?
The amount of House of Representatives.
What is 435?
How many terms can a President serve?
What is two terms?
What is 9?
House of Congress that decides the budget.
What is the House of Representatives?
What is teeth?
The three requirements to be a Senator.
What is must be 30 years old, be an American citizen for at least 9 years, and live in the state they represent.
List the three requirements to be the President.
What is at least 35 years old, lived in the U.S. for 14 years, and must be a natural-born citizen.
List the three different federal levels of courts.
What is district court, court of appeals, and supreme court?
List the four steps for a bill to become a law.
What is a bill is presented to Congress, bill is voted on by a committee, bill is debated and voted on in both chambers, bill is signed into law by the President.
The planet closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
The three requirements to be a House of Representatives
What is at least 25 years old, be an American citizen for seven years, and live in the state they represent.
Describe the electoral college.
What is each state has electors that then vote for the President?
The court case that established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Two ways the legislative branch can check the executive branch.
What is override presidential vetoes, impeach the president, reject presidential appointments, and refuse to ratify treaties.
What is Africa and Asia?
List five powers of Congress.
What is collecting taxes, regulating trade, coining money, establishing post offices, declaring war, creating lower federal courts, granting patents and copyrights, borrowing money, and creating any laws necessary and proper to carry out its powers.
Number of Executive Departments.
What is 15?
Describe judicial review.
What is the ability of the Supreme Court to analyze whether laws or executive orders are constitutional or not?
Two ways the legislative branch can check the judicial branch.
What is reject presidential appointments, impeach judges, propose constitutional amendments to override judicial decisions, and establish lower courts?
What is George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe?