Influences on the Founders
This southeastern-European city is credited as the birthplace of democracy.
Where/what is Athens?
The highest court in the United States is called the ____.
What is the Supreme Court?
The U.S. Congress is bicameral. Name its two chambers.
What are the Senate and House of Representatives?
This role/person is the head of the executive branch and commander-in-chief.
Who is the President (Donald Trump)?
This role/person serves as the leader of a state's government.
Who is the Governor (Laura Kelly)?
Starting with 100 members (eventually swelling to 2,000 members), the Romans created this, which was meant to balance the powerful Consuls and Praetors on behalf of the people.
What is the Senate?
There are this many Justices that permanently sit on the "highest court in the land."
What is 9?
There are this many members of Congress.
If the President and Vice President are both killed, this person becomes the president.
This person is elected at the town or city level and is the person responsible for managing the area, overseeing the local budget, and enacting new laws.
Who is the mayor?
This document, written in 1215, established punitive systems and checks to the powers of the British monarchy.
What was the Magna Carta?
This is the title of the person who is the ranking member of the "highest court in the land." (*bonus point if you can name the current one*)
Who is the Chief Justice?
A bill must pass both chambers before going to the president, after which the president can sign or do this to prevent it from becoming law.
What is "veto"?
The president is allowed to nullify the criminal sentences of anyone found guilty, or may be found guilty, of committing a federal crime by issuing this to the alleged criminal.
What is a (presidential) pardon?
Powers reserved to the states by the Constitution are found in this amendment.
Philosophers John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Francois-Marie Arouet (Voltaire) are just some of the key influences on the Founders to come out of this period.
What is the Enlightenment period?
This is how many levels to the court system there are in the United States.
What is 3?
This is the name for the political procedure where one or more lawmakers prolong debate or use other delaying tactics to block or delay a vote on a proposed bill or action.
What is the filibuster?
If a president commits a "high crime or misdemeanor," then the House of Representatives can vote to begin this process that may result in the removal of the president.
What is impeachment?
What is the 4-letter acronym for the taxes that are taken at the state and local levels in order to fund and manage municipalities.
What is S.A.L.T. (State and Local Taxes)?
The Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondaga, the Seneca, the Cayuga, and Tuscarora tribes made up this Confederacy that began in the 1500s.
What was the Iroquois (Haudensaunee) Confederacy?
This is term for the disagreement of a Justice who is on the losing side of a vote from the "highest court in the land." It is a ________ opinion.
What is dissenting?
Who is the Vice President (J.D. Vance)?
The president can issue this type of order to direct the executive branch and carry the force of laws while not being voted on by Congress.
What is an executive order?
The separation of distinct powers between a strong, centralized national government and the smaller, localized state government is called this. (hint* the first two presidents belonged to a political party named after this)
What is Federalism?