Article One
The first branch of government.
What is the legislative branch?
The second branch of government.
What is the Executive branch?
The third branch of government.
What is the Judicial branch?
The right to bear arms.
What is the Second Amendment?
The principle that the supreme power rests with the people.
To create laws, declare war, regulate commerce and control taxes.
What are the main powers of the Legislative branch?
To carry out laws, veto laws, negotiate treaties, appoint federal judges and grant pardons.
What are the main powers of the Executive branch.
To interpret laws, decide cases, protect civil rights and punish lawbreakers.
What are the main functions of the Judicial branch?
Protection against unreasonable search and seizure.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
The rule of law that states the government is not all powerful.
What is Limited Government?
The Senate and the House of Representatives are both apart of this section of the Legislative branch.
What is the Congress of the United States?
The President, the Vice President, the Cabinet and the Executive Departments.
Who are the people apart of the Executive branch?
The highest court made up of nine justices who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
What is the Supreme Court?
Freedom of speech, religion, petition and assembly.
What is the First Amendment?
The idea that each branch has their own powers and responsibilities.
What are the Separation of Powers?
Where Congress gets its implied powers from.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
Chief of State, Chief Executive, Chief Administrator, Chief Diplomat, Commander in Chief, Chief Legislator, Party Chief, and Chief Citizen.
What are the roles of the President?
The authority of a court to hear, try and decide a case.
What is Jurisdiction?
The right to a civil and criminal trial.
What are the Sixth and Seventh Amendments?
The power each branch has to override the others.
What are Checks and Balances?
No ex post facto laws (punishing citizens for something before it was illegal) and no suspension of habeas corpus (the right to be brought before a judge before being detained).
What are some actions prohibited to congress?
Conviction of Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
What are the reasons for impeachment?
Exclusive, concurrent, original and appellate cases.
What are the types of jurisdiction?
Protection against cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
Where the national government is given certain powers by the Constitution and the rest are given to the states.
What is Federalism?