Legislative
Executive
Judicial
Checks and Balances
Our Rights
100
These are the two parts of Congress.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
100
This person is the head of the executive branch.
Who is the president?
100
This is the name of the group at the head of the judicial branch.
What is the Supreme Court?
100
This is one way the executive branch can check the legislative branch.
What is vetoing a bill or proposing a bill?
100
This is what it means to have the right to "life".
What is that you have the right to live your life without anyone taking it away from you?
200
This is the number of Senators in the United States.
What is 100?
200
This is the length of one term for the President.
What is 4 years?
200
This is the number of judges in the Supreme Court.
What is 9?
200
This is one way the executive branch can check to judicial branch.
What is appointing judges or granting pardons?
200
This is what it means to have the right to "liberty".
What is you have the right to freedom from people telling you what to do or what to think?
300
This is the number of Representatives in the United States.
What is 435?
300
This is the person who takes over if the President can no longer do his job.
Who is the vice president?
300
This is the length of a term for a Supreme Court judge.
What is life?
300
This is one way the legislative branch can check the executive branch.
What is overriding a veto or impeaching a president?
300
This is what it means to have the right to the "pursuit of happiness".
What is you have the right to do whatever makes you happy as long as it doesn't take away anyone else's rights?
400
This is how long a Representative is in office.
What is 2 years?
400
These are the three qualifications to be president.
1) At least 35-years-old 2) Natural Born Citizen 3) At least 14 years of residence in the U.S.
400
This is the document that the Supreme Court uses to make decisions.
What is the Constitution?
400
This is one way the legislative branch can check the judicial branch.
What is confirming appointments or impeaching judges?
400
These two words were added to the Pledge of Allegiance in the 1950s.
What is "under God"?
500
This is the length of time a Senator is in office.
What is 6 years?
500
This is the number of presidents we've had in the United States.
What is 44?
500
Sandra Day O'Connor is a retired Supreme Court Justice. This is the reason she is important.
What is she was the first female judge?
500
This is one way the judicial branch can check the executive branch or the legislative branch.
What is declare a law or order unconstitutional?
500
This is the name of the list of rights every American citizen has.
What is the Bill of Rights?
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