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Division of Power
Rhetorical Devices
The Election of the U.S. President
The Bill of Rights
The Constitution
100
The branch led by the President and the VP.
What is the executive branch?
100
A rhetorical device employed to appeal to the audience's emotions
What is pathos?
100
The 20th of January
What is the date for U.S. President's inauguration?
100
The right to petition the Government, to assembly, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press
What is the first amendment?
100
The introduction to the U.S. Constitution
What is the preamble?
200
The branch led by Congress
What is the legislative branch?
200
A rhetorical device employed to appeal to the audience's sense of reason or logic
What is logos?
200
A state which sometimes votes Republican and sometimes votes Democratic
What is a swing state?
200
The right to bear arms
What is the second amendment?
200
The number of articles in the Constitution
What is seven?
300
The branch led by the Supreme Court?
What is the judicial branch?
300
The overall appeal of the speaker or writer
What is ethos?
300
The final approval of who becomes the next president of the United States?
What is Congress?
300
The number of amendments included in the Bill of Rights
What is 10?
300
Another name for the founding fathers
What are the framers?
400
The two houses of Congress.
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
400
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines
What is anaphora?
400
The two different ways that parties choose their different candidates for the presidency
What are primaries and caucuses?
400
It states that the police must have probable cause as well as a warrant to search your property or person
What is the fourth amendment?
400
The bill on which Benjamin Franklin features.
What is a 100-dollar bill?
500
The French philosopher behind the theory of division of power and "checks and balances"
Who is Montesquieu?
500
A metaphor which includes an opposition or juxtaposition of words in a balanced or parallel construction
What is an antithesis?
500
The number of electoral college votes needed to win the presidency
What is 270?
500
The right to not answer any questions on the grounds that you may incriminate yourself
What is the fifth amendment?
500
The year the Constitution was written
What is 1787?