Article I - Legislative
This upper house has 100 members, with 2 representing each state.
What is the Senate?
This is the minimum age required to be president.
What is 35 years old?
This is the highest court in the United States.
What is the Supreme Court?
Under Article IV, states must give full faith and this to each other.
What is credit?
This is the total number of amendments to the Constitution.
What is 27 amendments?
This is the length of a term for a member of the House of Representatives.
What is 2 years?
This is the length of a presidential term.
What is 4 years?
This is how long Supreme Court justices serve.
What is life (or lifetime appointment)?
This legislative body has the power to admit new states to the Union.
What is Congress?
These are the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This term describes a legislature with two chambers.
What is bicameral?
DAILY DOUBLE
This role makes the president head of the U.S. military.
This is the total number of current Supreme Court justices.
What is 9 justices?
(1 Chief Justice and 8 Associate Justices)
This clause establishes the Constitution as the supreme law of the land.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
This fraction of both houses of Congress must approve an amendment proposal.
What is 2/3?
This house of Congress must begin all bills involving taxes.
What is the House of Representatives?
This presidential power allows a bill to be rejected.
What is a veto?
This branch official appoints Supreme Court justices.
Who is the President?
This many states were required to approve the Constitution for ratification.
What is 9 states?
This fraction of states must ratify an amendment.
What is 3/4?
This clause gives Congress the power to make laws that are “necessary and proper.”
What is the Elastic Clause?
(Also acceptable: What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?)
This fraction of both houses is required to override a presidential veto.
What is 2/3?
This is what the Supreme Court has the ultimate authority to interpret.
What is the interpretation of law/Constitution?
This type of test is forbidden as a requirement for public office.
What is a religious test?
(Separation of Church and State)
This phrase describes the Constitution because it can be changed over time.
What is a “living document”?