Amendments
The Bill of Rights contains this number of amendments
What is 10
US Representatives are elected to terms of this length of time.
What are 2 years?
What is President?
This many justices serve on the Supreme Court.
What is nine?
This group of people were in favor of a strong central government and ratifying the Constitution without amendments.
Who are the Federalists?
The legal voting age was set permanently by the 26th Amendment
What is 18?
Candidates must be this old in order to run for the Senate.
What is 30 years old?
When the President suggests new laws to the legislative branch and/or signs bills into law, he or she is performing this role.
What is Chief Legislator?
This type of jurisdiction says that a specific court has the sole authority to hear a case.
What is Exclusive Jurisdiction?
This was the name of the first Constitution of the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This amendment protects you from testifying in a criminal case against you
Congress has the sole authority to bring charges of high crimes and misdemeanors against executive and judicial branch officials in a process called this.
What is impeachment?
A presidential candidate must have lived in the United States for this long prior to seeking election.
What is 14 years?
Who is John Roberts?
This constitutional principle says that we are to elect representatives to vote for us in the government.
What is Republicanism?
The 13th amendment abolished this institution
What is slavery?
This enumerated power helps Congress pass laws to make the conducting of business and trade amongst the states easier.
What is regulate commerce?
The Vice President's only constitutional responsibility is to break ties in this legislative house.
What is the Senate?
At the federal level, this is the type of court that typically has trials by jury.
What is District Court?
There are this many purposes for the United States Constitution listed in the Preamble.
What is six?
These two clauses make up the 1st amendment's religious protections.
What are the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause?
This is the total number of representatives and senators in the legislative branch.
What is 535?
What is Head of State?
The case Marbury v. Madison expounded this doctrine enabling the Supreme Court to decide if laws passed by Congress are Constitutional.
What is Judicial Review
This clause found in Article IV says states are to give other states' acts, records, and judicial proceedings this kind of treatment.
What is Full Faith and Credit?