Branches
History
Amendments
People
Odds and Ends
100
The branch that makes laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
100
This idea says that representation is based on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
100
This amendment is the only amendment that was repealed.
What is the 18th Amendment?
100
The person with 4 year terms.
What is the President?
100
Represents the original 13 colonies.
What is the stripes on the American flag?
200
The number of branches in a state government.
What is 3?
200
A proposal that says a slave counts as 3/5 a person.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
200
The actual number of ratified amendments.
What is 27?
200
This person is the highest ranking official on the Supreme Court.
What is the Chief Justice?
200
This means removing an amendment from the Constitution.
What is repealing an amendment?
300
The president must be born in America.
What is one qualification to be president?
300
This is the Congress who appointed a committee to write the Declaration of Independence.
What is the 2nd Continental Congress?
300
This amendment sets the voting age minimum at 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
300
This is a person who can conduct a filibuster.
What is a senator?
300
This is when a President doesn't sign a bill after 20 days and it dies quietly.
What is a pocket veto?
400
This is the year when the case Brown vs. Board of Education occurred.
What is 1954?
400
The Articles of Confederation had no executive branch.
What is one weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
400
This is majority is needed in each house in order to propose an amendment.
What is a 2/3 majority?
400
They regulate immigration.
What is the federal government?
400
This symbolizes loyalty on the American flag.
What is blue's symbolism?
500
The process by which the courts interpret the meaning of the Constitution and laws passed under it.
What is Judicial Review?
500
The year the Constitution became the law of the land.
What is 1788?
500
The more common method of ratifying an amendment.
What is 3/4 of state legislatures (38 of 50 states) approve of the amendment?
500
The official leader of the Senate.
What is the Vice President?
500
This is needed from Senate and House of Representatives for a bill to become a law for the first time.
What is a majority voting yes?
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