Name Your Terms
The length of a term and the term limit for the President.
What is...
4 years; 2 Terms total?
The nickname for the first 10 amendments.
What is...
The Bill of Rights?
2 powers of the executive branch.
What is...
signs or vetoes laws,
appoints Cabinet members, Ambassadors, & Federal Judges
acts as Commander in Chief
enforces laws that have been passed?
This was the first document that named our country as an independent nation.
What is...
the Declaration of Independence?
This where our rights come from.
What is...
God?
The length of a term and the term limit for a U.S. Representative.
What is...
2 years; No limit?
The number of times the Constitution has been amended.
What is...
27?
2 powers of the legislative branch
What is...
make laws,
declares war,
approves (confirms) Cabinet members,
decides how to spend Federal money?
This is the 1st governing document over all the colonies at the time.
What are...
the Articles of Confederation?
This is the purpose of government.
What is...
to protect the rights of its citizens?
The length of a term and the term limit for a U. S. Senator.
What is...
6 years; No limit?
3 of the rights protected in the 1st amendment.
What are...
Freedom of Speech, Press, Petition, Assembly, Or Religion?
1 way the judicial branch can check the legislative branch OR the executive branch.
What is...
it can rule a law unconstitutional OR
it can rule an executive action unconstitutional?
This document replaced the Articles of Confederation and have been the supreme law of the land since.
What is...
the Constitution?
Where governments get their just powers.
What is...
the consent of the governed?
The length of a term and the term limit for a Supreme Court Justice.
What is...
Lifetime (with no impeachable behavior)?
This is what the 2nd amendment protects our right to do.
What is...
Keep and bear arms (guns)?
1 way the executive branch can check the legislative branch.
What is...
it can veto bills;
it can propose bills,
it can call special sessions of congress?
The Declaration of Independence was published in 1776, 15 months after this event.
What is...
the 1st battle of the Revolutionary War?
The type of government the United States has.
What is...
a Constitutional Democratic Republic?
The length of a term and the term limit for a Federal Judge.
What is...
Lifetime (with no impeachable behavior)?
This is what amendments 4-8 are known as.
What is...
The rights of the accused?
The 3 branches of government and their main purpose
What is...
Legislative- to create the laws,
Executive- to enforce the laws,
Judicial- to interpret the laws?
The topics of the 7 articles of the Constitution.
What is...
Legislative, Executive, Judicial, States, Amendments, Supremacy, Ratification?
Giving different groups in government the authority over only certain functions.
What is...separation of powers?