Legislative Branch
What is make laws?
Executive Branch is the name for the branch of government that performs this function.
What is enforce the law?
Judicial Branch is the name for the branch of government that performs this function.
What is interprets the law?
This is the name for the first 10 amendments of the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This is the name for a form of government in-which the people vote for their leaders.
What is Democracy?
This is what the Legislative Branch is in the United States.
What is Congress?
This is how long a president's term length is and how many terms a president can have.
This is the name for the highest and most notable part of the Judicial Branch.
What is the Supreme Court?
This is the amendment that gives us the freedoms of: speech, religion, the press, assembly, and religion.
What is the First Amendment?
This is the meaning of the term Bicameral Legislature and an explanation of the names of the houses it refers to.
This is what makes up the Executive Branch in the United States.
What is the President, vice president, and executive departments?
This is the name for the power of the supreme court to interpret the Constitution.
What is judicial review?
This is the argument the federalists originally gave for why a written Bill of Rights was not necessary (in their view).
What is that since we vote for our leaders, the people would not vote for someone who would take away their rights?
This is the name for something that is added to the Constitution.
What is an ammendment?
Explain how the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan are both a part of today's Congress because of the Great Compromise.
The Virginia Plan -- more seats in Congress for big states
New Jersey Plan -- same number of seats for all states
Great Compromise -- have a House of Representatives that uses Virginia Plan and a Senate that uses New Jersey Plan (bicameral legislature)
These are the qualifications to be president of the United States.
35 years old, natural born citizen, resident of USA for at least 14 years
Explain how many justices there are in the Supreme Court, how they get their positions, and how long their term is.
There are 9 justices and they are chosen by the president (affirmed by the Senate), they serve for life (until death or retirement)
These are all of the amendments that have to do with the rights of those accused with or convicted of a crime (there are 4).
What are the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th amendments?
Describe the 3/5ths Compromise.
Explain how many seats there are in the House of Representatives and the Senate, as well as how long each term length is, and the qualifications for both
House: -- at least 25 years old + citizen for 7 years + live in state they represent
Senate: -- at least 30 years old + citizen for 9 years + live in state they represent
Explain how the US president is elected in detail.
What is that the president is elected by the electoral college, not the people, and that there are 538 electors, and that the president needs 270 electoral votes to win. If the president wins a state than they get all of the electors in that state.
Name 3 Supreme Court cases from your notes and explain how each of them changed the interpretation of one of the amendments in the Bill of Rights
(Answers vary)
Explain all of the rights protected by the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th amendments.
4th -- no unreasonable searches or seizures (must have probable cause or a warrant)
5th -- due process, double jeopardy, self-incrimination
6th -- speedy, impartial jury trial in criminal cases
7th -- jury trial in civil case
8th -- no cruel/unusual punishment, no excessive bails or fines
Describe all of the ways that the Constitution can be amended.
-- can be proposed at national convention called for by 2/3rds of the state legislatures
can be ratified in either: --3/4s of state legislatures
--conventions held in 3/4s of the states