The Executive
This is the title of the President's annual speech to Congress.
What is the State of the Union address?
This is the name referring to the heads of executive departments.
This is the number of people who serve on the Supreme Court.
What is nine?
This entity holds the power to amend the Constitution.
What are the states?
All state constitutions establish this number of branches of government.
What are three branches?
This is what allows Presidents to create laws without Congress's approval.
What is an executive order?
The 9/11 terrorist attacks prompted the creation of this agency.
This country inspired the U.S. legal system.
What is Great Britain?
This term coined by Thomas Jefferson involved the concerns about the church.
What is "wall of separation"/"separation of church and state"?
In most states, the legislature may place amendments before this entity.
Who are voters?
This is the successor after the vice president, should both VP and president be unable to serve.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
This body handles diplomatic relations, foreign policies, and treaty negotiations.
What is the Department of State?
This is the agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant, for a lesser charge.
What is a plea bargain?
The only amendment to be repealed had to do with the social issue of beverages.
What is Prohibition?
This is the term that refers to the state's system of roads, bridges, and utilities.
What is infrastructure?
This document allowed the President to deploy troops to South Vietnam.
What is the Tonkin Gulf Resolution?
This "catch all" body handles national parks and protects the national environment, among other duties.
What is the Department of the Interior?
They confirm federal judge nominations.
What is the Senate?
This document, limits the intrusiveness of the federal government.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This is the state with a unicameral legislative body.
What is Nebraska?
This limits the President's ability to deploy troops.
What is the War Powers Act?
The attorney general is the head of this department.
What is the Department of Justice?
This phrase means "Let the decision stand".
Stare decisis.
This agreement outlines the legal path to a territory becoming a state.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This is the number two executive officer in most states, coming after the governor.
Who is the lieutenant governor?