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100
This amendment limits the President to only two consecutive elected terms of office or 10 years total in the case of the succession of a Vice President.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
100
According to the U.S. Constitution, these are two duties that Presidents are to fulfill.
What are: Commander in Chief; State of the Union Address; nominate Cabinet members; grant reprieves and pardons; treaties [w/ consent of the Senate]; appoint ambassadors, federal judges, etc; receive ambassadors; grant military commissions; see that the laws are faithfully executed?
100
These are two agencies within the Executive Office of the President or EOP.
What are: Office of Management and Budget; Council of Economic Advisers; National Security Council; Office of National Drug Control Policy; National Homeland Security Council?
100
This is the basic authority on which a court bases its claim to take a certain course of action or to hear a given case.
What is the fact that it has jurisdiction in that area?
100
Currently there are _______ justices on the Supreme Court.
What are nine?
200
There are two types of votes that are cast in Presidential elections, the popular vote and the ________.
What is the electoral vote?
200
The total, combined vote cast by the people [citizens] of the individual states for President is called the _________.
What is the popular vote?
200
Sometimes when a president is elected by a large majority they speak of being given a __________ by the people.
What is a mandate?
200
These are two reasons that the Founding Fathers created a Federal or national judiciary along with the Supreme Court.
Answers may vary
200
Federal Court justices are appointed for this amount of time.
What is for life or "during good behavior"?
300
The President nominates Cabinet members, but it is the role of the Senate to ___________.
What is to give confirmation or final approval?
300
This is the current number of Cabinet departments.
What are 15?
300
In the winner take all system, whoever gets the simple majority of the popular vote in state is given all of the ________.
What are electoral votes of that state?
300
He was the most important early Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court?
Who was John Marshall?
300
This is one reason that John Marshall is remembered as the "most important" Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Answers may vary
400
Party members chosen in each state to formally elect the president and vice-president are called______.
What are electors?
400
Our textbook listed seven roles the President fulfills. List 4 of them.
What are: Head of State; Chief Executive; Chief Legislator; Economic Planner; Party Leader; Chief Diplomat; and Commander in Chief?
400
If something were to happen to BOTH the president and the vice-president, the order of succession passes to these three offices first, in order.
What are: Speaker of the House; President Pro Tempore of the Senate; Secretary of State?
400
This refers to a court's right to be the first court to hear or try a case.
What is original jurisdiction?
400
This is the authority of a higher court to hear a case that is being appealed by a lower court.
What is appellate jurisdiction?
500
[This was not covered in class, but you probably know it...] These are the two animals used to represent the Democratic and Republican parties.
What is a donkey for the Democrats and an elephant for the Republicans?
500
Give two factors that the President must take into account when nominating Cabinet officials.
What are: background and expertise; expectations of supporters; regional or geographical considerations; patronage within the party; etc.
500
According to the 25th Amendment, these are the two sets of procedures that must be followed before a Vice-President can be declared "Acting-President."
What are: 1. the president can request in writing to the Speaker of the House and President Pro Tempore of the Senate; 2. the vice-president along with a majority of the Cabinet officials declare that the president is unable to discharge the duties of his office?
500
Although this power, _______, is not explicitly stated in the Constitution, it can be implied that the Supreme Court can overturn acts of Congress or the President if they are unConstitutional. [What is the name of the power or right?]
What is judicial review?
500
This is one criteria used to decide which cases should be heard before the Supreme Court.
What is: there are multiple conflicting rulings in lower courts; there are some Constitutional principles at stake that were not fully considered in a lower court ruling; there were significant civil rights or due process procedures that were violated by a lower federal or state court; the case involves one of the States or the Federal government as a party to it; or it just seems really interesting to them?