This is the well-being of all people in a community.
What is general welfare?
100
This is a plan for raising/spending money.
What is a budget?
100
Collecting taxes, declaring war, and borrowing money are these powers.
What are legislative powers?
100
The general limits for the government came from this system.
What is the system of checks and balances?
100
This woman is known because she was the first woman in the Senate.
Who is Carol Mosely Braun?
200
"to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty," are all goals of this.
What are the goals of the Preamble?
200
Congress has the power to declare this.
What is war?
200
Proposing amendments, trying impeachment cases and admitting new states are these powers.
What are nonlegislative powers?
200
The executive branch has the power to do this to "check" the legislative branch.
What is to veto?
200
The war in Iraq provoked debate because of this.
What is because Congress never declared war?
300
Many laws to promote the general welfare are based off the power of Congress to do this.
What is regulate commerce?
300
In the decade of the 1960's, the U.S. troops were sent into this conflict.
What is The Vietnamese War?
300
All laws that are "necessary and proper" are carried out because of this clause.
What is the elastic clause?
300
The constitution says that Congress cannot take away a citizen's right to this.
What is a writ of habeas corpus?
300
This section of the government approves appointment of judges to the Supreme Court.
What is the Senate?
400
This law requires companies to pay employees a certain amount of money each hour.
What is minimum wage?
400
In this year Congrss passed the War Powers Act that limits the President's power to send troops into combat without approval by Congress.
What is 1973?
400
This part of the government can impeach.
What is the House of Representatives?
400
A law that convicts a person of a crime without a trial is this.
What is a bill of attainder?
400
Because of the Constitution, this type of law is not allowed because it makes a certain act a crime and then punishes people who did the crime before the law was passed.
What is an ex post facto law?
500
Congress passed a law in this year which forbids traders to bring enslaved African Americans to the U.S.
What is 1808?
500
The War Powers Act was also known as this, it's less commonly called name.
What is the War Powers Resolution?
500
These two presidents are the only two to be impeached.
Who are Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson?
500
This is is the most important reason for the Constitution to place specific limits on Congressional powers?
What is to protect the rights of citizens?
500
The last time Congess used it's power to officially declare war was for this war.