Age and citizenship years for a member of the U.S. House of Representatives
What is 25 and 7?
100
The definition of the Preamble
What is the introduction to the United States Constitution?
100
This term defines the process by which the President, Vice President, and all Civil Officers of the United States shall be removed from office for convictions of Treason, Bribery, or other high crimes and Misdemeanors
What is "impeachment"
200
The number of U.S. Supreme Court Justices
What is 9?
200
The power to interpret laws and decide legal disputes
What is the Judicial Branch?
200
Age and citizenship years for a member of the U.S. Senate
What is 30 and 9?
200
The Preamble expresses this?
What is the reason/purposes for the United States Constitution?
200
This United States Constitution term prohibits a law from being passed that makes an action illegal after it has already happened, it warns citizens ahead of time that their actions are illegal
What is "ex post facto"
Latin for "after the fact"
300
The number of articles in the United States Constitution
What is 7?
300
The power to administer laws
What is the Executive Branch?
300
Age and citizenship years for the President of the United States
What is 35 and 14?
300
The meaning of "to ourselves and our posterity" could be stated as
What is for ourselves and our decendants or children?
300
This United States Constitution term relates to allowing prisoners the right to challenge their own detention
What is "writ of habeas corpus"
Latin for "produce the body"
400
The number of amendments in the United States Constitution
What is 27?
400
The term bicameral applys to this branch
What is the Legislative Branch?
400
The length of a term for a United States Supreme Court Justice
What is for Good Behavior or Life?
400
The phrase "to form a more perfect union" has been construed as referring to a shift from this pre-United States Constitutional document
What were the Articles of the Confederation?
400
This term prohibited by the United States Constitution specifys that individuals or groups cannot be declared guilty of a serious crime by legislation but rather must be done by a jury trial
What is "bill of attainder"
500
This is the number of times the United States Constitution mandates the that the President provide information on the State of the Union to the Congress
What is 0?
500
The primary reason for the three branches of government
What is "Seperation of Powers"?
500
Daily Double
Term lengths for the United States President, United States Senator and a United States House of Representatives member.
What is four(4), six(6), and two(2)?
500
The Preamble begins "We the People" thereby establishing from the start that the Government gains its power from this, and not this
What is the people and the states?
500
In this term the United States Constitution states that every state shall honor another states laws, records, court orders and judicial decisions even when its own laws are different