Congress
Name for a proposed law.
What is a bill?
The minimum age a citizen has to be to become president of the United States.
What is 35?
All federal court cases start here.
What are district courts?
Clause in the Constitution that defines the extent of Congress' lawmaking powers, granting them powers not specifically listed in the Constitution.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
This group of "wiser heads" are those who actually do the voting for the president of the united states.
What is the elector college?
The greatest power held by the Supreme Court.
What is judicial review?
Law that punishes someone for doing an act that only became a crime after the time he did it.
What is an ex post facto law?
The president may select advisors, ambassadors, and judges with the advice and consent of this body of government.
What is the Senate?
A right one holds by law. or from being a member if a political society.
What is a civil right?
An act of the legislature that punishes someone for a crime he is accused of committing without giving him the benefit of a trial.
What is a bill of attainder?
In the case of a tie for president, this body of government would decide through a vote the winner.
What is the House of Representatives?
A defendant can waive his or her right to a trial by jury and instead choose to do this?
What is a bench trial?
The Constitution forbids Congress from limiting the foreign slave trade before this year.
When is 1808?
After this amendment to the Constitution, the election of the president and vice president of the United States would happen on separate ballots.
What is the 12th amendment?
Article in the Constitution that defines the judicial branch and its powers.
What is article 4?