Legislative
These 2 legislative bodies that make up Congress
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
1.1
These are the grounds for impeachment
What are treason, bribery, high crimes, and other misdemeanors?
2.4
This highest court of the land currently has this number of Justices
What is the Supreme Court and 9 Justices?
3.1
The process by which new states are admitted to the union
What is by the approval of Congress?
4.3.1
This is the "Supreme Law of the Land"
What is the Constitution?
6.1.2
These 5 rights of the people are protected in the first amendment
What are freedom of speech, religion, press, petition, and assembly?
These three men were the authors of the Federalist Papers
Who are Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay?
Bills to raise revenue begin in this body of Congress.
What is the House of Representatives?
1.7.1
These are 5 powers of the president
Veto bills by Congress
Commander in chief of the military
Grant reprieves and pardons
Appoint ambassadors
Appoint Supreme Court Justices
1.7.2 and 2.2.1 and 2.2.2
The authority to hear cases for the first time
What is original jurisdiction?
3.2.2
These 3 guarantees are made to the states by the Federal Government
What are:
A Republican form of government
Protection from invasion
Executive and legislative protection from domestic violence
4.4
This number of states was needed to ratify the Constitution
What is 9?
Article 7
This amendment limits presidential terms
What is the 22 amendment?
This state never came to the Constitutional Convention of 1787
Who is Rhode Island?
Impeachment trials are carried out by this body of Congress
What is the Senate?
1.3.6
These are the 6 duties of the President
What are giving the State of the Union Address
Convene both houses
Adjourn both houses
Receive ambassadors and other public ministers
Take care that laws are faithfully executed
Commission all officers of the US?
2.3
Cases that are heard by the Supreme Court after being tried in a lower court
What is appellate jurisdiction?
3.2.2
These are the 5 populated territories of the United States
What are:
Guam
Puerto Rico
US Virgin Islands
American Samoa
Northern Mariana Islands
For this reason, the United States does not require any religious test for office
What is America was founded in response to the lack of religious tolerance in the world. The Founders did not want to create the same thing. How a person decides to worship God should not determine their ability to run for office?
These two amendments deal with the prohibition of alcohol and the repeal of prohibition
What are the 18th and 21st Amendments?
This person wrote most of the wording of the Constitution including the Preamble
Who is Gouverneur Morris?
A Senator's term in office is this many years longer than a Representative's years in office
What is 4 years?
1.2.1 and 1.3.1
These three presidents have been impeached in the House of Representatives
Who are Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump?
These acts would qualify the label of Treason
What is levying war against the United States, or adhering and giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States?
3.3.1
These are the terms of extradition
If a person is charged with any crime in one state and flees to another state and is arrested, that person will be returned to the original state where charges were made.
4.2.2
Judges in every state are bound to enforce this
What is the supreme Law of the Land consisting of the Constitution and the law and treaties made under it?
6.1.2
These 3 amendments have to do with reconstruction
What are the 13th (bans slavery), 14th (equal citizenship), and 15th (voting rights to all male citizens)?
On this day, the convention approved the constitution
What is September 17, 1787?
The Three-Fifths Compromise counted the population in this way
What is 3/5 of the combined slave population would be added to the whole number of free Persons when counting for representation and taxation?
1.2.3
These are 5 offices of the President's Cabinet
What are the Vice President and the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs, as well as the Attorney General?
The Supreme Court has original jurisdiction over these types of cases
What are cases involving public ministers, ambassadors, and states
3.2.2
These are 5 things that states can't do
What are making treaties, Alliances, or Confederations; granting letters of Marque and Reprisal (privateer); Coin Money; Emit Bills of Credit; Paying debts with something other than gold and silver; Passing law against a person or group and assessing guilt and punishment; Pass a new law that punishes prior offenders; Interfering with private contracts; Grant Titles of Nobility; Tax imports or exports; Charge a fee for a boat to port based on cargo weight; Keep a standing army or navy in peacetime; Enter into a private agreement with another state or foreign power; Declare war?
1.10.1 1.10.2 1.10.3
The Amendment Process
What is
PROPOSAL: Approved by 2/3 of both House and Senate OR by 2/3 of State Conventions
RATIFICATION: Passed by 3/4 of state legislatures
OR by 3/4 of State Conventions?
5.1
These 3 amendments grant suffrage
What are the 15th (all male citizens can vote), 19th, (all citizens can vote), and 26th (18 yr olds can vote)?
This is how a bill becomes a law
A bill begins in either the House or Senate, When both bodies agree, the bill goes to the President, President says NO but 2/3 of House + Senate say YES then the bill becomes a law, or if the President says YES then the bill becomes a law, or if the President ignores the bill for 10 days then it becomes a law.
1.7.2