Legislative
The two houses that make up Congress
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
This occurs when the Judicial Branch decides if a law is constitutional.
What is Judicial Review?
How the president checks the powers of congress
What is vetoing bills and proposing agenda priorities?
Where two different versions of a bill go to be negotiated and made into one bill before it has a final vote in Congress
What is the conference committee?
The branch with the power to issue pardons
What is the executive branch (president)?
This house of Congress impeaches the president
What is the House of Representatives?
The number of Judges that sit on the supreme court
What is 9 judges?
The name for the presidents group of advisors
That is the cabinet?
Powers directly listed in the Constitution
What are enumerated powers?
The presiding officer over the Senate
What is the Vice President?
This house of congress serves as the jury for the impeachment of a president
What is the Senate?
Outlines the arguments each side will make in a supreme court case
What is a brief?
This branch sets the salary of the president
What is Congress
This principle divides power among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches
What is separation of powers?
This House of Congress is based off of population
What is the House of Representatives?
How Congress checks the power of the President
What is Impeachment and overriding vetoes with a 2/3 vote?
The order of federal courts from most to least powerful
What is the Supreme Court, Appellate Court, District Court (SAD)?
The role the president has as foreign policy leader
Negotiate Treaties
This branch of government declares wars
What is Congress?
Has the power to Negotiate Treaties
What is the president?
This body of congress is where revenue (Tax) bills originate
What is the House of Representatives?
Punishment for something that was not illegal when it was done.
What are ex post facto laws?
the vote of the Senate that is needed in order for an impeached government official to be found guilty and removed from office
What is 2/3 of the Senate?
This branch has the power to ratify treaties
What is the legislative branch (Congress)
The number of the President pro tempore of the Senate in the line of succession
Who is 3rd in the line of succession?