Legislative
What is the job of the Legislative Branch?
What is to make laws?
What is the job of the Executive Branch? Which office holds the chief executive power?
What is the job of the Judicial Branch?
What is to interpret laws, apply laws to cases, and decide if laws violate the Constitution?
How are new states admitted to the Union?
What is by an act of Congress?
What are the religious requirements for holding office?
What is none?
Some of the first Senators served two and four-year terms. Why?
What is there are three classes of senators, each class with a staggered term two years apart?
What are the qualifications for Presidential candidates?
What is a natural born citizen, at least 35 years old, and 14 years a resident within the US?
What is the term of office for a justice?
What is "during good Behavior"?
Americans have dual citizenship. What does this mean?
What is citizenship of both the state and the country?
What are two methods for ratifying an amendment to the Constitution?
What is three-fourths of state legislatures or conventions?
How many members were in the first House of Representatives?
What is 65?
What is the Electoral College?
What is a group of electors equal in each state to the total the number of representatives and senators from the state?
Define treason.
What is levying war against the US or adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort?
At the time of the Constitution, what are the states’ obligations regarding fugitive slaves?
What is, the states were, if the slave owner made a claim, to deliver up the fugitive slave from their state?
What are two methods for proposing an amendment to the Constitution?
What is a two-thirds majority of both houses, or two-thirds of state legislatures?
What’s the difference between a delegated and an implied power?
What is a power described in the Constitution vs. a power exercised to fulfill those enumerated powers?
What is the president’s term of office? How many times can the president be re-elected (under the original Constitution?) When and how did this change?
What is four years ... unlimited ... 22nd amendment (1951)?
What is original jurisdiction? Appellate jurisdiction?
What is the ability to hear the case directly in that court ... receiving a case after it has been heard by lower courts and appealed?
Define republican government. What obligation does the national government owe to the states?
What is a government where the power is held by the people who elect representatives ... to guarantee a republican government and protect against invasion and internal violence?
Explain the Supremacy Clause (and how it applies to state laws).
What is the Constitution and the law of the US is to be the supreme law of the land, overriding state law where it comes into conflict?
Define habeas corpus, ex post facto and bill of attainder.
What is the ability to challenge the lawfulness of imprisonment (lit., "show me the body"), a bill applied retroactively after it is made, and a bill that finds a group of people guilty?
Who gets the power if the President resigns, dies or is removed from office? List the order of succession.
What is the vice president, followed by whoever Congress may choose? (Today there is a specified order: 3rd Speaker of House, 4th Senate President pro tempore, 5th Cabinet members in order of agency creation, starting with Secretary of State)
What does “no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted” mean?
What is no one's family will be denied the traitor's property nor will the traitor's property be seized by the state?
“Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of every other state.” Explain.
What is states recognize what happens in other states and can request the records?
What part of the Constitution may NOT be amended?
What is Art. I, Sec. 9, clauses 1 and 4, and no state shall deprived of its equal suffrage in the senate?