The Constitution / DOI
This document explained the grievances of the colonists...
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This branch's responsibility is to create laws?
What is the Legislative Branch?
This branch's role is to enforce laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
This branch's role is to interpret laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
Total number of Amendments to the US Constitution.
What is 27?
Beginning of the Constitution which lays out the purposes of government in the United Sates.
What is the Preamble?
The name of the two houses of Congress.
What is the House of Representatives & the Senate?
This person is in charge of the executive branch.
Who is the president?
The highest court in the land.
What is the Supreme Court?
The Second Amendment of the US Constitution.
What is the right to bear arms.
This important principle of the constitution insures that one branch does not get too powerful due to a series of interactions and procedures.
What are checks and balances?
A sitting President can do this to a law created by Congress if he/she does not approve of it.
What is veto?
This group of advisers helps the president make decisions
What is the Cabinet?
Article 3 created this as a result of a problem in the AOC...
What is a National/Federal Court System.
These are the 5 protections guaranteed under the first Amendment.
What are the freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
The Constitution created this kind of legislature that is composed of two chambers...
What is bicameral?
This chamber has 435 sitting members & is controlled by population.
What is the House of Representatives?
This person leads the Senate in times when a tie is needed to vote on a bill....
Who is the Vice President?
Trial by this concept was suspended during colonial times but guaranteed after the ratification of the Constitution..
What is a Trial by Jury?
This Amendment gave all people born (or naturalized) in the United States the right to vote (hint: think African-Americans).
What is Fourteenth Amendment?
"For imposing taxes on us without our consent," is an example of...
What is No Taxation without Representation?
The power to tax was fixed in the Constitution with Article 1, Section 8. This amendment gave Congress more tax power...
What is the Sixteenth?
The combination of the number of Representatives and Senators in a state compiles a state's...
What is electors?
The ability of the supreme court to declare presidential action or congressional law unconstitutional is an example of what constitutional principle?
What is checks and balances?
Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. Prohibits unreasonable what?
What is search and seizure?