Constitutional Framework
These are the two houses of Congress.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
This is the captain of the Red October.
Who is Captain Marko Ramius?
This house of legislature that must consent for the US to become a party of a treaty.
What is the Senate?
This document outlines the fundamental principles of the United States government.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
Sophie is double majoring in ____ and ____.
What is English and History?
What is diplomacy?
This is the actor who played Jack Ryan.
Who is Alec Baldwin?
NATO and the UN Charter are examples of this concept.
What are multilateral treaties?
This is the name of the international organization formed after World War II.
What is the United Nations?
Sophie was born and raised in this state.
What is Indiana?
This was the primary fear of the Founding Fathers regarding government.
What is tyranny?
This is the term for the policy used by the US against the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
What is containment?
This term describes the belief that the United States should avoid involvement in foreign affairs.
What is isolationism?
This governing body was formed before the Revolutionary War.
What is the Continental Congress?
Sophie mainly listens to this genre of music.
What is country?
Name three powers of the Legislative branch.
What is...
Power to tax
Power to coin money/standardize currency/set up banking system
Creating/reorganizing government agencies
Maintaining army and navy
Regulating commerce
Funding programs
Post offices
Elastic clause (Congress can do whatever is necessary and proper)
This is the nickname given to the Red October's sonar system.
What is Ceasar?
This is the international institution devised by Woodrow Wilson and was not joined by the US.
What is League of Nations?
This British monarch was the primary antagonist of the American Revolution.
Who is King George III?
Sophie's favorite book is ____.
Little Women
This is the term for when a legislative body creates a law that punishes an action retroactively.
What is an ex post facto law?
The Russian Protocol Officer reads about this event when the film begins.
What is Armageddon?
This is the number of times the US has officially declared war.
What is five?
This idea, central to the Declaration of Independence, suggests that governments derive their power from the consent of the governed.
What is popular sovereignty?
This is Sophie's favorite beverage.
What is Dr. Pepper?