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Executive Branch
Legislative Branch
Judicial Branch
Checks and Balances
Amendments and Federalism
100
These two offices are in the Executive Branch.
What is the President and the Vice President?
100
This is the main role of the Legislative branch.
What is to make laws?
100
This is the maximum number of justices in the Supreme Court.
What is 9?
100
The framers of the Constitution believed that if one person had too much power, they would always try to increase it. The probably believed this as a result of their experiences with this person.
What is King George of England?
100
This is the number of amendments that were added to the Constitution right after its creation.
What are 10 amendments?
200
This is the length of the president's term.
What is 4 years?
200
There are 100 elected officials in this house of Congress.
What is the Senate?
200
This is the length of term for Supreme Court justices.
What is they serve for life.
200
The system of checks and balances allows each branch of government to limit the _______ of the other two branches.
What is powers?
200
This is a system that shares power between state and national governments.
What is Federalism or the Federal System?
300
You have to be at least this old to run for president.
What is 35 years old?
300
This is a count of the population taken every ten years to help determine the number of Representatives for each state.
What is a census?
300
Justices are appointed by the _________ branch and approved by the _________ branch.
What is Executive and Legislative (must be said in that order)?
300
This branch approves Supreme Court nominations.
What is the Legislative branch?
300
This is the fraction of the states that have to agree in order to change the Constitution.
What is 3/4 of state legislatures?
400
These are the two citizenship requirements necessary to become President.
What is 1) be a natural born citizen and 2) been a resident for 14 years?
400
This number is the combined total years of the age requirements for the being a Senator and a Representative.
What is 55 years?
400
It is the responsibility of this branch to protect the "______ ______ of the land."
What is Supreme Law?
400
This is one of the most important ways that the Executive branch can check the power of the Legislative branch.
What is veto bills?
400
This is trade and other business dealings between two or more states.
What is interstate commerce?
500
This is one of the powers held by the Executive Branch.
What is 1) being commander in chief of the nation's military forces? 2) grant pardons to people convicted of violating federal, or national, laws? 3) enforcing the laws? 4) negotiating treaties?
500
Today, Senators are chosen by popular vote. When the Constitution was written, Senators were chosen by these government bodies.
What is state legislatures?
500
This is the power of the Supreme Court to decide whether laws and acts made by the legislative and executive branches are unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
500
These are two important offices that the President can nominate people to serve. Name both.
What is 1) Supreme Court Justice and 2) cabinet members (like Secretary of State, Secretary of Education, etc.)?
500
This is one of the advantages of interstate commerce.
What is (name one) 1) resources could flow more easily? 2) easier to create large companies? 3) easier to create a national economy?