Branches of Government 1
This branch of government makes the laws.
What is the legislative branch?
This branch of government enforces, or carries out, laws.
What is the executive branch?
This branch of government interprets the law.
What is the judicial branch?
Freedom of speech, the press, religion, petition, and peacefully assemble.
What is the First Amendment?
Our first president and president of the constitutional convention.
Who is George Washington?
The number of years in a presidential term.
What is four?
The person that appoints Supreme Court Justices.
Who is the President?
The number of justices on the Supreme Court.
What is nine?
Who are Anti-Federalists?
The number of Amendments in the Constitution.
What is 27?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
This Article sets up the Legislative Branch of the government.
Like members of Congress, these people can serve their position for an unlimited amount of time, however they are chosen by the President.
Who are Supreme Court Justices?
Along with having been a resident of the U.S. for 14 years, these are the other two requirements to become president.
What are be 35 years old & be a natural-born citizen of the United States?
This Amendment protect citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
The city and year of the Constitutional Convention.
What is Philadelphia, 1787?
The number of cabinets in the Executive Branch.
What is 15?
Who is Adam Schiff?
The top representative in the House, currently held by Mike Johnson.
What is the Speaker of the House?
Put in place to protect the people from a tyrannical government.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
This deal helped the southern states increase their representation in Congress.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
A system of restrictions placed on individual branches of government by the other branches of government to maintain a balance of power.
What is the system of checks and balances?
This system is in place to make sure that no branch of government gets too powerful.
What is checks and balances?
These two people are the senators of California.
Who are Butler and Padilla?
Rarely used, this Amendment was last used in 1982 by New York prison guards.
What is the Third Amendment?
(preventing military from taking over home to house soldiers)
What is Article IV?