Civics Vocabulary
This concept allows for branches of government to check the power of other branches to make sure they are not too powerful
What are Checks and Balances?
This branch of government makes laws
What is the legislative branch?
The head of the executive branch at the national level
Who is the President?
This is the final step missing from the naturalization process
1. Live in the US for 5+ years
2. Be 18+
3. Good moral character
4. Speak, read, write in English
5. ?
What is "take an oath of allegiance"
This process protects the rights of citizens accused of a crime
What is due process?
Means "two chambers", refers to how Congress is set up
What is bicameral?
This is the amount of Representatives in the House, and the amount of US Senators
What is 435 and 100?
This is the head of the executive branch at the state level
Who is the Governor?
This event was when the colonists dumped barrels of tea into the harbor to protest the British
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This was the first government document of the United States that came before the Constitution
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This is the form of government where only a group of people are in charge
What is an oligarchy?
This is how the amount of House seats per state is determined
What is population?
This is the title for the President when he is in charge of the military
What is Commander in Chief?
These are considered to be "natural rights"
What are "life, liberty, and property"?
Paying taxes and registering for the Selective Service are examples of what?
What are obligations?
This person wrote Common Sense, which urged the colonists to declare independence from Britain
Who is Thomas Paine?
This is the percentage of votes needed to overturn a veto
What is 2/3 or 67%?
These are the qualifications needed to be President by age, citizenship, and residency
What is 35 years old, natural born citizen (by soil or blood), and live in the US for 14 years?
The concept of self government comes from this influential document
What is "The Mayflower Compact"
This Act taxed all paper goods imported by the colonists
What is the Stamp Act?
This is the official form of government of the United States
What is a Constitutional Republic?
This is is the age, citizenship, and residency requirements for a US Senator
What is 30, 9+ years as a resident, and live in the state they are running in?
This is a power of the President that means to officially forgive someone of a crime
What is a pardon?
This Act imposed on the colonists by the British forced colonists to house soldiers against their will
What is the Quartering Act?
This weakness of the Articles of Confederation made it impossible for the nation to create an army
What is "the power to collect taxes"?