The ability to establish schools is a delegated, reserved, or concurrent power?
What is reserved?
100
Nominating Supreme Court and Federal judges is the check and balance given to this branch of government.
What is the executive branch?
100
This is the first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
100
This system gives most of the power to the states.
What is the Confederate system?
100
This is a type of government where a small group of people rule as in Vietnam or China.
What is an Oligarchy?
200
The power to order, pay for, and build a new aircraft carrier is given to this level of government?
What is federal (or national).
200
Impeachment of members of the executive and judicial branch is a check given to this branch.
What is Legislative?
200
Article 1 of the Constitution sets up and gives powers to this branch of the government
What is the Legislative branch?
200
This system gives most of the power to the central or national government.
What is the Unitary system?
200
In Switzerland every citizens gets to vote on every issue in the country. This is an example of this type of government.
What is a DIRECT democracy?
300
Collecting taxes is an example of this type of power.
What is concurrent?
300
The Judicial branch does this when interpreting whether a law or action is unconstitutional.
What is Judicial Review?
300
This is the term used when the government is allowed to take your property, provided they give you a fair price for the land.
What is Eminent Domain?
300
A government that distributes power across several level in order to meet the needs of its citizens, is this system of government.
What is the Federal system?
300
These are your two teachers and the hockey teams they cheer for respectively.
Who are Mr. Jones (Flyers) and Mrs. Roberts (Capitals)
400
Regulating the requirements for obtaining a driver's license is this type of power.
What is reserved (or state's)?
400
True or False? The Congress can change the number of judges who sit on the Supreme Court.
What is True?
400
Regulation of air travel is an IMPLIED power (even though the Constitution only talks about maritime travel and it is NOT written), is an example of this clause.
What is the Elastic (or necessary and proper) clause?
400
France, with 22 separate provinces, who get all of their laws and regulations from one centralized authority is this system of government.
What is a Unitary system?
400
This term for a type of government is synonymous with Dictatorship and Monarchy.
What is Authoritarian?
500
The ability to grant patents and copyrights is this type of power?
What is delegated (or national)?
500
Granting a pardon is a check placed on the Judicial branch by this branch of government.
What is the Executive branch?
500
This amendment contains the "Eminent Domain" clause.
What is Amendment #5
500
Two times in United States history this system of government was unsuccessfully employed.
What is a Confederate system?
500
These are the two candidates running for Howard County Executive in this year's election.