Constitution
The supreme law of the land in the United States
What is the Constitution?
The term that denotes 3 branches of government.
What is separation of powers?
These are the two main political parties in the United States.
What is democrat and republican?
The number of voting members in the House of Representatives
What is 435?
The person who steps in if the President can no longer serve
Who is the Vice-president?
The first African-American Supreme Court Justice?
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This term is when officials redraw districts, in a sometimes skewed way, to assist in a certain party retaining power.
What is Gerrymandering?
The first 3 words of the Constitution, which capture the idea of self-government
What are, "We the People?"
The branch of government Article I of the Constitution deals with
What is the Legislative Branch?
Who has the ability to make federal laws
Who are Congress?
What is the Legislative branch?
The number of years a U.S. president is elected for
What are 4 years?
Signs bills to become laws
Who is the President?
The 44th President of the United States?
Who is Barack Obama?
The "option" that Senate can activate to bypass the filibuster.
What is the Nuclear option?
An addition or change to the Constitution
What is an amendment?
The article in the Constitution dealing with the Executive Branch
What is Article II?
What are the names of the two houses of Congress?
What are the House of Representatives & the Senate?
The number of U.S. senators
What is 100?
If the President does not agree with a bill presented to him by Congress, he can do this
What is "veto the bill?"
Current Speaker of the House
Who is Nancy Pelosi?
The idea that the Supreme Court has the power to review the constitutionality of federal and state laws, and acts of the Executive Branch.
The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution
What are the Bill of Rights?
System the founding fathers put in place to keep any one branch of government from becoming too powerful
What is Checks & Balances?
How many votes does it take to override a veto?
What is 2/3 votes of each House of Congress?
Puerto Rico has this many electoral votes.
What are 0?
The job of the judicial branch
What is to interpret laws? / Determine if laws are constitutional?
Vice-President under Donald Trump?
Who is Michael Pence?
The idea that the U.S. Constitution and Federal Law is superior to state law.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
The number of amendments in the Constitution
What is 27?
The system in which the different branches of governments use oversight on one another.
What is checks and balances?
The idea that power is divided by and shared between the federal government and the states.
What is federalism?
This state has the highest number of electoral votes.
What is California (55)?
Specifically, who has the power to approve presidential appointments?
What is the Senate?
This person is the governor-elect of Pennsylvania (governor to be).
Who is Josh Shapiro?
The idea that once a case has been decided by the Supreme Court, for all practical purposes, the law is settled and should be followed by other courts.
What is Precedent?
This person was a major contributor to the Constitution and wrote the Federalist Papers.
Who is James Madison?
Which branch of government did the framers attempt to make most powerful?
What is Congress?
What is the term that defines two houses in one Congress?
What is Bicameralism?
The month when presidential elections are held in the United States
What is November?
Bills dealing with revenue (money) start in this committee.
What is the United States House Committee on Ways and Means?
Who is the newest member of the Supreme Court?
Who is Ketanji Brown-Jackson?
The term that describes the process by which the Senate approves Presidential appointments.
What is "Advice and Consent"?
The first major compromise made when the Constitution was written.
What is two houses of Congress? or What is the Connecticut Compromise?
When different parties control different branches and/or chambers, the government is called "in this"
What is gridlock?
What is a Filibuster?
The number of votes it takes to stop unlimited Senate debate (filabuster).
What is 60?
Who is Congress?
Citizens United v. WHO set forth the idea that Political spending by corporations is a form of protected free speech.
What is FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION or FEC?
Senate reaches enough votes to stop unlimited debate.
What is Cloture?