Legislative Branch
The main responsibility of the legislative branch
What is make laws?
The main responsibility of the executive branch
What is enforce laws?
The main responsibility of the judicial branch
What is interpret laws?
The length of the term of a federal judge or Supreme Court justice
What is lifetime?
The process of drawing congressional districts to favor a political party
What is gerrymandering?
The term for a two-house legislature
What is bicameral?
The minimum age to be President
What is 35?
The number of justices on the Supreme Court
What is 9?
The lowest level in the federal court system
What are district courts?
The section of the Constitution allowing Congress to extend, or stretch, its delegated powers
What is the Elastic Clause?
The minimum age to be a representative
What is 25?
The title of the President as leader of the military
What is Commander-in-Chief?
The power of the Supreme Court to determine if laws or executive actions are constitutional
What is judicial review?
The authority of a court to hear and decide a case
What is jurisdiction?
Vote needed to override a veto
What is 2/3 in the House and Senate?
The minimum age to be a senator
What is 30?
The power of the President to cancel a bill
What is veto?
Supreme court decisions that guide judges' decisions in later cases
What are precedents?
The Supreme Court case which established the principle of "Separate but Equal" in 1896
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The highest ranking U.S. representatives in a foreign country
What are ambassadors?
Where most of the work happens in Congress
What are committees?
The power of the President to forgive a person for a federal crime
What is pardon?
The court with original jurisdiction in a case involving a state and the federal government
What is the Supreme Court?
The Supreme Court case which did away with the "Separate but Equal" precedent in 1954
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Law which limits the President's power to use troops
What is the War Powers Act?