Article I
The Framers of the Constitution saw this branch of government as the central governing body.
What is Congress?
This is the minimum age a presidential candidate must be in order to assume office.
What is at least 35 years old?
What is the Supreme Court?
This article of the Constitution describes the process of adding amendments to the Constitution.
What is the fifth Article?
This part of the Constitution articulates the purpose of the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
The Framers of the Constitution said they must be a citizen for at least 7 years, at least 25 years old, and live in the state they will represent at the time of their election.
What are the requirements to be a member of the House of Representatives?
This Amendment placed a two-term limit on the Presidency.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
Cases that go directly to the Supreme Court are under this jurisdiction.
What is Original Jurisdiction?
This Article of the Constitution discusses the relationships of states to states.
What is the fourth Article?
What is the Body of the Constitution?
This power is held by the House of Representatives alone.
What is the power of Impeachment?
This Amendment allows for the removal of a president if they are incapable of fulfilling the duties of the office.
What is the 25th Amendment?
The right to trial by jury originates in this document.
What is the Magna Carta?
This clause articulates the process of ratification of the Constitution.
What is the seventh Article?
This is the basic division of the federal government.
What are the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial?
These are the four categories of the legislative powers.
What are Revenue, Regulatory, War, and General Welfare?
This Amendment made the election of the President and Vice President separate.
What is the 12th Amendment?
This is how long justices on the Supreme Court serve.
What is life?
This clause articulates the power of the states in relation to the federal government.
What is the sixth Article?
This is the basic structure of the United States Government.
What is a divided government? / What are the states and the federal government?
This limit on Congress makes Congress incapable of making a retroactive law.
What are ex post facto laws?
This power that the President holds alone allows him to release or reduce the sentence of a criminal.
What is the power to grant reprieves and pardons?
This power allows the Supreme Court to declare a law passed by a state Legislature or by Congress to be unconstitutional.
What is the Power of Judicial Review?
This clause makes not only the Constitution itself, but laws made by the federal government, as well as every approved treaty, the supreme law of the land.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
This is at least one reason why the Constitution was established.
What is to form a more perfect union/establish justice/ensure domestic tranquillity/provide for the common defense/ promote the general welfare/ secure the blessings of liberty?