Legislative Branch
The role of the legislative branch in government
What is to write the laws?
The role of the executive branch in government
What is to enforce the laws?
The role of the judicial branch in government
What is to interpret the laws?
The number of amendments in the Bill of Rights
What is 10?
The federal voting age in the US
What is 18?
The length of one term of a US Senator
What is 6 years?
The current vice president of the United States
Who is JD Vance?
The title of the head justice on the Supreme Court
What is the Chief Justice?
The amendment that gives the "right to bear arms."
What is the Second Amendment?
The war that lasted from 1861 to 1865 that resulted in the Reconstruction Amendments being ratified
What is the Civil War?
The title of the elected leader of the House of Representatives
What is the Speaker of the House?
The current governor of New Hampshire
Who is Kelly Ayotte?
The number of justices on the US Supreme Court
What is 9?
The warning every police officer must give you before talking to you about a crime. ("You have the right to remain silent. Everything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law...")
What is the Miranda warning?
The name of the process in which a non-citizen can become a US citizen (and gain the right to vote in federal elections)
What is naturalization?
A system of government in which the legislative branch is divided into two houses
What is a bicameral congress?
The president's appointed group of advisors, approved by the Senate
What is the Cabinet?
The current chief justice of the US
Who is John Roberts?
The primary author of the Bill of Rights
Who is James Madison?
The constitutional amendment that assured women the right to vote
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
Our two US senators from New Hampshire
Who are Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan?
The three qualifications to become president
What is being born in the United States, at least 35 years old, and having lived in the US for at least 14 years?
A landmark Supreme Court case that determined that students in school have freedom of speech
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
The five rights in the First Amendment
What are freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and freedom of petition?
The way in which an eligible voter (in some states) can lose their right to vote by committing a felony
What is felony disenfranchisement?