Legislative
This branch makes the laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
What is the Executive Branch?
This branch interprets laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
The first three words of the Constitution.
What is “We the People”?
This system prevents one branch from becoming too powerful.
What is Checks and Balances?
Congress is made up of these two houses.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
The leader of the Executive Branch.
Who is the President?
The highest court in the United States.
What is the Supreme Court?
The first ten amendments are known as this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The President can do this to reject a bill passed by Congress.
What is veto?
Members of the House of Representatives serve this many years per term.
What is 2 years?
The President serves this many years in one term.
What is 4 years?
Supreme Court justices serve for this length of time.
What is life (lifetime appointment)?
This amendment protects freedom of speech.
What is the First Amendment?
Congress can override a presidential veto with this fraction of votes.
What is two-thirds (2/3)?
This part of Congress has 100 members total.
What is the Senate?
This group advises the President and leads executive departments.
What is the Cabinet?
This Constitutional article creates the Judicial Branch.
What is Article III?
There are this many total amendments in the Constitution.
What is 27?
This branch can declare a law passed by Congress unconstitutional.
What is the Judicial Branch (or Supreme Court)?
This Constitutional article creates the Legislative Branch.
What is Article I?
This Constitutional article establishes the Executive Branch.
What is Article II?
This principle allows courts to declare laws unconstitutional.
What is Judicial Review?
The Constitutional Convention took place in this city in 1787.
What is Philadelphia?
In Marbury v. Madison (1803), the Supreme Court established __________?
What is Judicial Review?