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Overall Constituion
CA Gov/Federalism
Legislative
Executive
Judicial
100
A rulebook for a country that outlines a framework of how the government works. 
What is a Constitution?
100

State Government is lower than this form of government. 

What is the Federal Government?

100
The Legislative's main purpose.

What is making laws? 

100
This heads the Executive Branch

What is the President?

100

The Judicial Branch does this to laws.

What is Interprets the Law?

200

The First 10 Amendments of the Constitution

What is the Bill of Rights?

200
California's Three Branches.
What are legislative, executive, and judicial? (same as federal government)
200

Bicameral Legislature

What is having two houses of Congress? (House of Representatives and Senate)
200

This elects the President.

What is the Electoral College?

200

The number of Supreme Court Justices, how they get their jobs, and how long they serve.

What are 9 justices that are appointed by the president and serve for life or until retirement?

300

Someone who wanted to ratify the Constitution without adding a Bill of Rights.

What is a Federalist?

300

Similar to the Vice President, but at the level of the governor.

What is the Lieutenant Governor? 

300

Term Lengths for both House and Senate

What is 2 years for House and 6 years for Senate?

300

The heads of these make up the presidents cabinet.

What are the 15 Executive Departments?

300

The Supreme Court's power to interpret the Constitution

What is Judicial Review?

400

The clause that allows Congress powers that are only implied in the Constitution, not specifically stated.

What is The Necessary and Proper Clause (The Elastic Clause)?

400

Can be either bigger or smaller in range than a city government.

What is a district government?
400

Number of Representatives in both the House and Senate.

What is 435 in the House and 100 in the Senate?

400

The maximum possible number of years a president can serve.

What is 10 years?

400

The case that gave the Supreme Court the power of Judicial Review.

What is Marbury v. Madison?

500

Only the 21st Amendment was proposed using this method of proposing amendments. 

What is being proposed by 2/3rds of the State Legislatures and then ratified by 3/4s of the States at Convention?
500

The type of executive branch that California has, in which we vote for each of the cabinet positions.

What is a Plural Executive?

500
How a Bill becomes a Law

What is the Majority Whip?

500
When the president doesn't sign a Bill, 10 days goes by, and Congress is no longer in session.
What is a Pocket Veto?
500
If this jurisdiction is the case, than another type of jurisdiction also applies.
What is Exclusive Jurisdiction and Original Jurisdiction?