Characteristics of Government
Name one purpose of government
What is maintain social order, provide public services, provide national security, make economic decisions
What is the supreme law of the land?
What is the Constitution?
What is the name given when addressing both houses?
What is Congress
What is the name of the head of the executive branch?
What is the President
What is the name of the Highest Court in the land?
What is the Supreme Court
What type of government system divides power between national and state governments?
What is federal government
What is the name of the failed form of government before the Constitution?
What is the Articles of Confederation
What is the name of the system that counts votes based on voting districts
What is electoral college
What is the name of the advisory council to the president?
What is the Cabinet
The power given the Supreme Court to see if laws are constitutional or not
What is judicial review
What type of economic system do we have in the United States?
What is Capitalism
What is the nickname given to the agreement for a bicameral legislature?
What is the Great Compromise
What are the 2 major political parties in the US?
What is Democratic Party and Republican Party
What is the title given to the President's military authority?
What is Commander in Chief
A new ruling made by the Supreme Court, something for the lower court to follow
What is a precedent
What theory talks about a theoretical contract in which people sign away some rights to live in a society?
What is social contract theory
What type of federalism do we have in the US now?
What is shared federalism
What is the name of the leader of the House of Representatives?
What is the Speaker of the House
What is the name of the power given to the president to direct executive offices with the power of a law?
What is an executive order
Who has the ability to rule on certain topics
What is jurisdiction
What type of government is ruled by a small group of people?
What is oligarchy
Name one philosopher behind the declaration of independence?
What is Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Baron Monesquieu
What is the name of rigging voting districts to favor a certain party?
What is Gerrymandering
What is the name of the power the President has over Congress's ability to pass laws
What is the Veto
A name of procedural doctrine used to determine if there is to much entanglement between church and state when ruling on education cases, named after a fruit
What is the Lemon Test