Constitution
What is Articles of Confederation?
The first ten amendments.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This branch deals with Congress.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This branch deals with the President.
What is the Executive Branch?
What is the Judicial Branch?
Who is in charge of controlling the government and who is in it.
Who are the People?
A change being made to the Constitution.
What is an amendment?
True of False: The Federalists wanted the Constitution to be ratified.
What is True?
What is the 3rd Amendment?
The major function (job) of the Legislative Branch.
What is make/create laws?
The major function (job) of the Executive Branch.
What is enforce/carry out the laws?
The major function (job) of the Judicial Branch.
What is interpret/apply the laws?
The governor of Iowa.
Who is Kim Reynolds?
The section of the Constitution that explains the purpose.
What sets up how Congress would be.
What is the Great Compromise? (Population and Equality of States)
What the Bill of Rights protects.
What are Natural and Civil Rights?
The two bodies of Congress.
What is the House of Representatives and the Senate?
The amount of terms a president can serve.
What is 2 terms? (4 years each)
How many justices are on the court.
What is 9?
This determines how many members a state gets in the House of Representatives.
What is the Population of the State/Census?
The right to reject bills passed by legislature.
What is veto?
The principle where the Constitution gives each branch tools to stop each other from becoming too powerful. Example, President can veto a bill from Congress.
What is checks and balances?
The protections guranteed by the 1st Amendment.
What is Freedom of Religion, Assembly, Press, Petition, and Speech? (RAPPS)
How long a Senator serves and how many are in Congress.
What is 6 years and 100?
This determines who is president.
What is the Electoral College?
How long a Supreme Court justice may serve.
What is life?
The level of Government that existed first.
What is State governments?
To officially approve.
What is ratify?
The three branches of the federal government, legislative, executive, and judicial, are an example of this principle.
What is separation of powers?
The 10th amendment protects the states by doing this.
What is giving power to states that aren't stated in the Constitution?
How long a Representative serves and how many are in Congress.
What is 2 years and 435?
The presidential speech given to Congress at least once a year.
What is the State of the Union?
This helps confirm a Supreme Court Justice.
What is the Senate?
Some of the reasons for why the Articles of Confederation didn't work.
What are; Regulate commerce, Tax, Raise an army, etc.?
What is an impeachment?
The only group to ratify amendments and approve the Constitution.
What are the States?
Why Congress had limited the power to tax originally in history.
What is a fear of being taxed like when Great Britain had been in charge?
Congress can not do this. (Think ethics and morals)
What is accept major gifts?
Explains how someone running for President can get the most popular votes but lose the election.
What is the person who lost the election won some states by huge amounts of popular votes but lost some states by really small amounts?
According to the Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines... schools' can limit 1st amendment rights of students when this happens.
What is when something interferes with the learning environment of a school?
The difference between a republic and a democracy.
What is republics you elect representatives to speak and vote for you while a democracy the people hold the power over all voting?
The splitting of power between Federal and State Governments.
What is Federalism?