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senate
house of representatives
president
congress
supreme court
100
100
What is the total number of senators?
100
25 years old, 7 years a citizen
What are the qualifications for representative?
100
enforce laws
What is the power of the executive branch?
100
the vote needed to override a presidential veto
What is 2/3 of both houses?
100
life
What is the term of a federal judge?
200
30 years old, 9 years a citizen
What are the qualifications for senator?
200
2 years
What is the length of term of a representative?
200
35 years old, natural born citizen
What are the qualifications for president?
200
power to make laws
What is the power given to the legislative branch (or legislative power)?
200
9
What is the number of supreme court justices?
300
the person who presides in senate when VP is absent
Who is the President Pro Tempore?
300
population
What determined the number of representatives a state gets?
300
a majority of electoral votes
What is necessary to be elected president?
300
powers given directly to congress by the constitution
What are the enumerated powers?
300
presides over an impeachment trial of a president
What is the role of the chief justice when a president is impeached?
400
6 years
What is the length of a senators term?
400
elects a president
What the house must do when no one candidate receives a majority of electoral votes?
400
guarantees civilian control of the military
What is the role of the president as commander-in-chief?
400
vote in congress necessary to propose an amendment to the constititution
What is 2/3?
400
interpret laws
What is the function of the judicial branch?
500
To try impeachments or approve treaties
What are powers held by the senate but not by the house?
500
impeachment or Origination of revenue bills
What is a power possessed by the house but not the senate?
500
10 years
What is the maximum number of years one can serve as president?
500
this allows congress to make all laws "necessary and proper" for it to carry out its function
What is the elastic clause?
500
supreme court
What is the only court mentioned in the constitution (or the highest court in the land)?