Legislative Branch
This term refers to the two chambers of the United States Congress
- What is the Senate and the House of Representatives?
The length of a single term for the President of the United States.
What is four years?
The highest court in the United States.
What is the Supreme Court?
This term refers to the power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
What is veto power?
The treaty that ended World War I and imposed heavy penalties on Germany.
- What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The number of voting members in the United States House of Representative
What is 435?
This official is next in line for the presidency after the Vice President.
What is the Speaker of the House?
The term used to describe judges who are appointed for life and can only be removed through impeachment.
What is life tenure?
The number of votes needed in both houses of Congress to override a presidential veto.
What is two-thirds majority?
- For 400: The treaty that transferred sovereignty over the Panama Canal from the United States to
- What is the Torrijos–Carter Treaties?
The name of the process by which Congress can formally charge a federal official with wrongdoing.
What is impeachment?
The number of executive departments in the United States government.
What is 15?
- For 800: The amendment that outlines the process of presidential succession.
- What is the 25th Amendment?
- For 1000: The number of electoral votes needed for a candidate to win the presidency.
- What is 270?
What is 15?
The name of the doctrine that states that decisions made by a higher court are binding on lower courts.
What is life tenure?
The authority of Congress to review and monitor actions of the executive branch.
What is congressional oversight?
The treaty that established the European Union.
- What is the Maastricht Treaty?
This term refers to the power of Congress to investigate and oversee the executive branch.
What is oversight?
The amendment that outlines the process of presidential succession.
What is the 25th Amendment?
The name of the doctrine that states that decisions made by a higher court are binding on lower courts.
What is stare decisis?
For 800: The term for the power of the courts to declare laws or actions unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
The treaty that prohibits the development, production, and stockpiling of biological and toxin weapons.
- What is the Biological Weapons Convention?
The number of senators in the United States Senate
What is 100?
The number of electoral votes needed for a candidate to win the presidency.
What is 270?
The number of justices currently serving on the Supreme Court of the United States.
What is nine?
The process by which the President's appointments to the federal judiciary are confirmed by the Senate.
What is Senate confirmation?
The treaty that limited the testing, production, and deployment of nuclear weapons.
- What is the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)?