Branches
The two houses that make up Congress
What are Senate and House of Representatives?
This branch's main job is to enforce the laws.
What is executive branch?
The name of the first 10 amendments in the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Giving specific jobs to each of the branches of government.
What is the separation of powers?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
The total number of Senators in the US Senate.
What is 100?
This branch's main job is to interpret the laws.
What is the judicial branch?
The five freedoms from the first amendment.
What are speech, religion, petition, press, and assembly?
The two purposes of the Preamble to the Constitution.
What are to explain its intent and and principals of the Constitution?
2/3 majority vote in each house allows Congress to do this.
What is override a presidential veto?
The total number of US Representatives in the House of Representatives.
What is 435?
The number of Supreme Court Justices.
What is 9?
This amendment gives citizens the right to bear arms.
What is the second ammendment?
What is veto laws passed by Congress?
This house of Congress makes a formal accusation of wrongdoing for a government official in the impeachment process.
What is the House of Representatives?
This is the main job of the Legislative Branch.
What is to create laws?
The members of this branch include the President, Vice President, and the Cabinet.
What is the Executive Branch?
This amendment guarantees a trial by jury.
What is the 6th ammendment?
This is where the trial of a government official that is impeached by the House of Represntatives takes place.
What is the Senate?
This amendment banned slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th amendment?
This idea is in place to make sure one branch of government does not gain too much power.
What is checks and balances?
This is the length of a Supreme Court Justice's term.
What is a lifetime term?
This amendment states that law enforcement cannot enter your home without a search warrant.
What is the 4th amendment?
These are the first 3 steps for how a bill becomes a law.
What is starts as an idea, idea shared with a congressman, idea sent to the Legislative branch?
This is the amendment which guarantees equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th amendment?