The Amendment that gives freedom of speech, religion, assembly, and petition.
What is the First Amendment?
100
The authority of the government is granted to it from the people as a whole.
What is democracy?
100
The speaker of the house today.
What is John Boehner?
100
This is a secret bunker used by the president in times of emergencies
What is the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC)?
100
This court case established judicial review
What is Maubury v. Madison?
200
The Amendment that applies the Bill of rights to the states.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
200
Obama is the ___th president.
What is 44th president?
200
The house and the senate are a _________ legislation.
What is bicameral legislation?
200
This president was the first to make extensive use of the veto
Who is Andrew Jackson?
200
This court case had the court rule corporations can contribute to PACs under the First Amendment's right to free speech
What is Citizens United v. FEC?
300
Name the Amendment-"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted."
What is the Eighth Amendment?
300
This is an act that prohibits government employees from seeking political funding while off duty
What is the Hatch Act?
300
Members in congress.
What is 535?
300
15 executive departments created to advise the president and operate a policy area
What is the Cabinet?
300
This group rates nominees' qualifications
What is the American Bar Association?
400
The twenty-seventh Amendment took ______ to ratify.
What is 202 years, 7 months, 12 days?
400
This replaced the spoils system with a merit system in the federal bureaucracy
What is the Pendleton Act?
400
________has the exclusive power to initiate bills for raising revenue, to impeach officials, and to choose the President in the event that a presidential candidate fails to get a majority of the Electoral College votes.
What is the House of Representatives?
400
This president exercised the autonomy of the executive branch (executive privilege)
Who is George Washington
400
This an order by the Court (when petitioned) directing a lower court to send up the records of a case for review
What is a writ of certiorari?
500
He wrote the Twenty-sixth Amendment giving 18-year-olds the right to vote.
What is Jennings Randolph?
500
Chief legislator, commander-in-chief, chief executive, head of state, chief diplomat and this are all jobs of the president
What is the Chief of party?
500
The leader of the senate.
What is the Vic president?
500
The vast majority (or all) of previous presidents have belonged to this religious ideology.
What is Protestantism?
500
This is the first African American supreme court justice