Civic Smarts 1
The supreme document that that lays out the structure of federal government in the US.
What is the Constitution?
The First Amendment protects this right.
What is the right to free speech, worship, press, assembly, etc.?
The number of U.S. Senators.
Whats is 100?
What is the highest court in the United States?
whats is the Supreme Court?
The Governor of California
Who is Gavin Newsom?
The commonly used name for the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The Commander in Chief of the military is this person.
Who is the President?
The two parts of congress
What are the house and the senate.
The number of justices on the Supreme Court.
What is 9?
He was President during the Great Depression and World War II.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful.
What are checks and balances OR separation of powers?
Name one power of the President besides being the Commander in Chief?
What is veto bills, sign bills into law, negotiate treaties, nominate federal judges, appoint Cabinet members, or grant pardons?
Why do some states have more Representatives than other states?
What is (because of) the state’s population, (because) they have more people, and/or (because) some states have more people?
The current political leaning of the supreme court.
whats is Conservative?
Name one responsibility that is only for United States citizens.
What is...
▪ serve on a jury
▪ vote in a federal election
The total number of amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
What is 27?
If both the President and the Vice President can no longer serve, who becomes President?
Who is the Speaker of the House?
The House of Representatives has how many voting members?
What is four hundred thirty-five (435)?
True or false, the constitution gives the Supreme Court the explicit right to judge the constitutionality of laws.
Whats is False?
A power that belongs to the States.
What is...
▪ provide schooling and education
▪ provide protection (police)
▪ provide safety (fire departments)
▪ give a driver’s license
▪ approve zoning and land use
Under our Constitution, name a power that belongs to the federal government.
What is...
▪ to print money
▪ to declare war
▪ to create an army
▪ to make treaties?
Name two Cabinet-level positions.
What are Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Education, Secretary of Energy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Secretary of Homeland Security, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of Labor, Secretary of State, Secretary of Transportation, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Attorney General, and Vice President?
The current Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Who the Mike Johnson?
This Supreme court case gave the court the ability to judge the constitutionality of laws.
Marbury V. Madison