The Constitution
This is the name of the document that describes how our government is set up?
What is the Constitution?
Where legal disputes are resolved
What is a court
This is what both legislative bodies are known as jointly
What is Congress?
The is who heads the executive branch.
Who is the president?
Freedom of speech was this French author's most important contribution to the US.
Who is Voltaire?
June 21, 1788
What is the date the Constitution was ratified
This group of individuals are the final say in what in Constitutional and Unconstitutional
What is the Supreme Court
This is the main purpose of the Legislative Branch.
What is to make laws?
This is the main purpose of the executive branch.
What is enforce laws?
This "father of liberalism" believed that people are born with inalienable rights.
Who is John Locke?
The number of amendments there have been to the constitution?
What is 27
This is how long Supreme Court justices serve on the court.
What is for life?
100
What is the number of Senators?
This Swiss Philosopher believed that governments must be elected in order to be legitimate
Who is Jean Jacques Rousseau?
This is the name of the first 10 amendments to the Constitution that guarantee our individual rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This is the number of justices that currently serve on the Supreme Court.
What is 9?
435
What is the number of Representatives in the House?
These members of the Executive Branch are appointed by the president, but don't make them hold your dishes.
What is the cabinet?
This American colonist believed that the Atlantic Ocean stopped Britain from ruling the colonies effectively
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
The first three words of the Constitution
What is "We the People?"
Name all Supreme Court Justices
Who are John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Stephen Breyer, Neil Gorsuch, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito, and Amy Coney Barret
This branch has the sole power to do this but the Executive branch routinely does it anyways. (The Legislative branch hasn't done this since the 1940's)
What is declare war?
This member of the President's cabinet is first in the line of succession
Who is the Secretary of State?
Separation of powers was an idea introduced by this French man.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?