Legislative Branch
Representatives serve ___ terms.
What is two-year?
The Supreme Court.
What is the highest court in the land?
Who was the first president?
George Washington.
___ can veto any law passed by Congress.
Who is the President?
There are 436 representatives.
What is House of Representatives?
How many members currently serve on the Supreme Court?
What is 9?
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States.
What is Article 2?
The president appoints the members of what branch?
What is the judicial branch?
A new law starts out as a document called a ___.
What is a bill?
“such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.” Since that statement was written in ___.
What is 1787?
the president has the power to ___ bills passed by Congress.
What is veto?
The president has the power to make treaties, but they must be approved by ___.
What is Two-thirds of the Senate?
States that have more than one representative, however, are divided into ___.
What is districts?
the authority to rule on the constitutionality of federal and state laws—has played a vital role in shaping the development of law and public policy in ___.
What is the United States?
In the president’s absence ___ presides over meetings of the Cabinet.
The U.S. Senate conducted the impeachment trial of President ___ in 1999.
Who is Bill Clinton?
A few legislative agencies, like the ___, help Congress in its work.
What is Library of Congress?
“We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.” This extraordinary, but accurate, remark by former Chief Justice ___.
Who is Charles Evans Hughes?
In 1801 ___ and ___ each received 73 electoral votes, and the House of Representatives had to decide between the two candidates.
Who is Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr?
The concept of checks and balances was crucial during the founding of the United States government. Influenced by the ___.
What is French philosopher Montesquieu?