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Legislative Branch
Executive Branch
Judicial Branch
Types of Governments and Economies
Significant Documents
100
There are 435 members of the House of Representatives and 100 Senators.
How many members are in the Legislative Branch?
100
Article 2.
Which article of the Constitution deals with the executive branch?
100
Supreme Court.
What is the highest court system?
100
A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
What is Democracy?
100
The Miranda Warning was created in the 1960's to protect the rights of those questioned by the police in a coercive or threatening manner.
What is the Miranda Warning?
200
Census.
What is taken every 10 years to determine If a state will gain or lose representatives?
200
3.
How many levels of the court system are there?
200
9.
How many members of the Supreme Court are there?
200
The first king to rule all of England as king was Athelstan.
Who was the first King of England?
300
Apportionment means how they will assign representatives to states and districts and it has everything to do with the House because the members are decided by population.
What does apportion mean? How does this term apply to the houses?
300
To take over as president if the president dies or can no longer do the job of president.
What is the main job of the Vice President?
300
Brown vs. Board of Education.
What is one of the famous Supreme Court cases?
300
A dictatorship consists of rule by one person or a group of people.
what is Dictatorship?
400
The Chamber (House or Senate) will assign a temporary member till the president appoints someone.
If someone dies or resigns during their term, how can their seat be filled?
400
15.
How many different Cabinet departments are there?
400
Interpret the law.
What does the Judicial Branch do?
400
Democracy means that everyone has equal right to be heard by the people. The more this happens and the easier it is for election candidates to communicate with their voters, the more democratic the process.
Is everyone given an equal right to be heard?
500
Article 1.
What articles in the constitution deal with the Legislative Branch?
500
8 years.
What is the longest time that one person can be president?
500
1789.
In what year did the Supreme Court first meet?
500
One of the underlying tenets of democracy is the equal protection of all individual rights, no individual’s rights being more important than someone else’s.
Are individual rights protected?