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Vocab
Electoral College
Congress
Bill of Rights
Odd one out
100
This clause says that the Constitution is the highest law in the land
Supremacy Clause
100
How many electoral votes do you need to win?
270
100
How many seats are there in the House?
435
100
Right to bear arms
2nd
100
Types of dictatorships: Autocracy, Communism, Oligarchy
Communism
200
In this type of government, the branch that makes the laws and the branch that executes the laws are the same
Parliamentary
200
What is the formula for how many electoral votes a state gets?
House seats + Senate seats
200
How many seats are there in the Senate?
100
200
Freedom of the Press
1st
200
Not a theory of the origin of the state: Force, Birth, Divine right
Birth
300
What is a single member district?
When only a district elects someone, not the whole state
300
What government body decides how many electoral votes a state gets?
Census Bureau
300
How many Senators does each state get?
2
300
No double Jeopardy
5th
300
Typically votes Republican Fast food worker, Protestant, College Graduate
Fast Food Worker
400
The three branches of government
Leg. Ex. Judical
400
Who decides who wins the election if no one gets the required number of electoral votes?
House of Representatives
400
What is the privilege called when a member of congress can mail for free?
Franking Privilege
400
You don't have to testify against yourself
5
400
Typically votes Democrat Catholic, Lives in the City, Lives in the country
lives in the country
500
Does America a one, two, or multi party system?
Two
500
What is the term for an elector who doesn't vote how the people wanted?
Faithless elector
500
What is the leader of the House called? (3rd in line to the president after the vice president)
Speaker of the House
500
All rights not stated in the constitution are reserved to the states and people
10
500
U.S. Presidents Polk, Simpson, Harrison
Simpson