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Executive Branch
Legislative Branch
Judicial Branch
International Affairs
Misc.
100
Head of the executive branch
What is the president
100
largest of the 2 houses of Congress
What is House of Representatives?
100
highest court in the land
What is Supreme Court
100
international peacekeeping organization--most countries belong to it
What is United Nations?
100
the number of branches of U.S. government
What is 3?
200
15 advisors to the presidents (14 secretaries and the attorney general)
What is the cabinet?
200
More powerful of the 2 houses of Congress
What is Senate?
200
number of Supreme Court justices
What is 9
200
mutual defense treaty between the U.S., Canada, and most of Europe
What is NATO?
200
the document that sets up the U.S. government
What is the Constitution?
300
president's main assistant
What is White House Chief of Staff?
300
most powerful person in Congress
What is Speaker of the House?
300
title for the head of the Supreme Court
What is chief justice?
300
the president's advisors on domestic and international safety issues
What is National Security Council?
300
the first 10 amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
400
title for the head of a cabinet department
secretary
400
where most of the legislative work is done in Congress
What is in committee
400
another word for circuit courts
What is appeals, appellate, superior
400
the part of the U.N. that has the political and military power
What is the Security Council?
400
each branch has certain powers over the others to make sure they can't abuse their power
What is checks and balances?
500
group that advises the president on military, domestic, and international safety concerns
What is National Security Council
500
head of the Senate when the vice president can't be there
What is President pro tem?
500
the lowest federal courts
What is District?
500
the heads of each of the 4 branches of the military
What is the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
500
dividing power between the 3 branches so no one branch becomes too powerful
What is separation of powers?