Legislative
These are the 2 Chambers of Congress.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
This is the head of the executive branch.
Who is the President of the United States of America?
These are the 3 types of court in the judicial branch.
What are district, circuit, and supreme courts?
This is how many justices there are.
What are 9?
This is a proposal for a new law or change to and existing law.
What is a bill?
What is 2?
Along with being a US citizen since birth (born in the US) and 35 years old, this is how long you had to have lived in the United States in order to be president.
What is 14 years?
This is the document the judicial branch uses in legal disputes.
What is the constitution?
This is much of the majority vote is needed from congress to override the President's veto.
What is 2/3 vote?
This is the party/group who makes a lawsuit by filing a complaint against a defendant.
What is a Plaintiff?
What is the population?
This is what the President can do to a bill that means to "reject it".
What is "veto"?
This is how long Supreme Court Justices are appointed for.
What is life or until retirement?
Supreme Court Justicies are chosen by the President and must be confirmed by this chamber of congress.
What is the Senate?
This is more than half of the total # of votes from voters who are voting for something.
What is the majority?
If the state is voting on a bill and the vote is split 50/50, this is who makes the deciding vote.
Who is the Vice President?
This is how many 4 year terms a president can serve.
What is 2?
When a plantif doesn't like the verdict (decision of the court) he can do this to a higher court.
What is an appeal?
This is one of the responsibilities of the executive branch.
What is carrying out and enforcing laws - or -
appointing supreme court justices and ambassadors
-or- making treaties?
A formal decision made by the jury.
What is a verdict?
This is what a law is called before it is approved by congress and signed by the President.
What is a bill?
This is a title that the President holds that means "he commands the military in times of war".
What is Commander in Chief?
This is the highest ranking judge of the Supreme Court.
Who is the Chief Justice?
What does it mean for the Supreme Court to have "original jurisdiction" in lawsuits between 2 or more states.
What is has the right to hear a case first?
These are the three branches of government.
What are legislative, legislative, and judicial?