Show:
Congress
President
Compromises
Checks and Balances
Bill of Rights
100
25 years old
What is the age requirement for the House of Representatives?
100
4 years
What is the length of a Presidents term?
100
Citizen elect electors, who than elect the president
What is the electoral college?
100
To prevent any branch from becoming to powerful
What is the purpose of Checks and Balances
100
Freedom of Speech
What is the 1st amendment
200
30 years old
What is the year requirement for the Senate?
200
2 full terms
What is the maximum times a president can be elected
200
Congress will have two house one with equal representation and one based on population
What is the Great Compromise?
200
Declare a law unconstitutional
What is the Supreme Courts check on the President and congress
200
The right to bear arms
What is the second amendment?
300
6 years
What is the length of a term for a Senator?
300
35 years old
What is age requirement to become president?
300
To ease the fears of Anti federalists and encourage them to support the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights being added to the Constitution?
300
2/3 vote in congress
What is a veto override?
300
The rights of a accused person/due process
What is the fifth amendment?
400
House or Representatives and Senate
What are the name of the two houses in Congress
400
The president's closest advisors
What is the Cabinet?
400
Power is divided between the states and the federal government
What is federalism?
400
Impeachment
What is Congress's check on the President and the Supreme Court
400
Protection against excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment
What is the 8th amendment?
500
535
What is the total number of people in congress?
500
Executive Branch
What is the name of the Branch the President is in charge of?
500
The way a slave would count towards representation
What is the 3/5 compromise?
500
Veto
What is the Presidents check on Congress
500
Protection against unreasonable search and seizure
What is the forth amendment?