Who does what
This branch is responsible for turning proposed bills into actual laws.
What is the legislative branch?
This is the president's tool for stopping a bill Congress just passed.
What is a veto?
This was Marbury's job title — the one he never actually got to start.
What is justice of the peace?
This term describes splitting governmental power across three separate branches.
What is separation of powers?
This is how long a member of the House of Representatives serves before facing re-election.
What is two years?
This branch's job is to carry out and enforce the laws once they're passed.
What is the executive branch?
This is the fraction of votes, in both chambers, Congress needs to beat a presidential veto.
What is two-thirds?
This man was secretary of state and the one who withheld Marbury's commission.
Who is James Madison?
This is the idea that once the Supreme Court rules, the other branches are expected to fall in line.
What is judicial supremacy?
This is how long a U.S. senator serves per term.
What is six years?
This branch decides whether a law itself is allowed to exist under the Constitution.
What is the judicial branch?
This chamber alone holds the power to approve or reject a president's pick for a federal judgeship.
What is the Senate?
This chief justice wrote the opinion that decided the case.
Who is John Marshall?
This word describes Congress formally charging a federal official with wrongdoing.
What is impeachment?
This is how a federal judge's term is best described, assuming good behavior.
What is a life term?
This document lays out the executive branch's powers and duties.
What is Article II?
his is the general name for the system where no one branch can act completely unchecked.
What is checks and balances?
This 1789 law was the one the Court ruled unconstitutional in the decision.
What is the Judiciary Act of 1789?
This is the Senate's formal act of approving a presidential nominee.
What is confirmation?
This is the process by which a president officially selects someone for a federal judgeship.
What is nomination?
This is the constitutional consequence when a law passed by Congress and signed by the president is later found to violate the Constitution.
What is the law being struck down / ruled unconstitutional (via judicial review)?
Name one power Congress holds that directly limits what the executive branch can do.
What is overriding a veto (or confirming/rejecting nominees, impeachment, controlling funding)?
This is the lasting power the case created for the Supreme Court going forward.
What is judicial review?
his principle holds that government power comes from the people, not a king or ruling class.
What is popular sovereignty?
This body — not the president alone — technically elects the president through their votes.
What is the Electoral College?