ARTICLES
This article describes the Executive Branch.
What is the Article 2?
The Legislative Branch is described in this article.
What is Article 1?
This is the minimum age of a US President.
What is 35 years old?
This is the number of branches that are in the US Government.
What is 3?
This is how the US Constitution is described in Article 6.
What is "the supreme law of the land"?
This article describes the judicial branch.
What is Article 3?
This is the main job of members of the Legislative Branch.
What is making laws?
This is the number of Justices on the Supreme Court.
What is 9?
This is the name of the "introduction" to the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
This is what Article 4 says should happen to someone who commits a crime in one state and flees to another state.
What is be sent back to the state where the crime was committed?
This article describes the relationships between the states.
What is Article 4?
This is the number of U.S. Representatives.
What is 435?
This is what a law is called if the Supreme Court rules the law violates the US Constitution.
What is UNCONSTITUTIONAL?
This is the process that ensures that no branch of government is too powerful.
What is Checks and Balnces?
The Constitution says 2/3 of either of these two groups can propose an amendment.
What are US or State Legislatures?
This article tells how The Constitution can be amended (changed).
What is Article 5?
This is the length of a US Senator's term of office.
What is 6 years?
This is what it is called when a president says no to a law the legislative branch has passed.
What is a veto?
When we say the government is OF the people, BY the people, and FOR the people we are referring to this important principle.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This is the year the US Constitution was created and signed at the Constitutional Convention.
What is 1787?
This article tells how The Constitution was created and ratified.
What is Article 7?
This is how the number of representatives from each state is determined.
What is the population of the state?
This is a term to describe the people who advise the President and serve in the Executive Branch.
What is the cabinet?
This is one of two ways the Legislative Branch can "check the power" of the Executive Branch.
What is to IMPEACH the president OR to OVERRIDE a presidential veto?
This is how Supreme Court Justices are selected.
What is to be nominated by the President and approved by the Senate?