The Rules
This can suspend, or stop for a time, a bill from becoming a law.
What is a Suspensive Veto?
This is the number of ways that exist to modify the Constitution.
What is two?
This is how long federal judges serve.
What is for life?
This is Congress' function in war.
What is to declare war?
This is who makes up the Supreme Court.
What is one chief justice and eight associate justices?
This is the president's function in war.
What is to act as commander in chief of the US Forces?
This house has two representatives, no matter the size of the state.
What is the Senate?
This is the function of the President.
What is to Execute (carry out) the laws passed by Congress?
This is the task of the STATE governments under the constitution.
What is attend to matters that affect the individual states?
If an amendment is to happen this is the amount of both Congressional Houses that have to agree before it can move to the floor.
What is two-thirds?
This house has representatives that are based on the population size of each state.
What is the House of Representatives?
This is the clause that defines the extent of Congress' lawmaking power.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
This is the task of the FEDERAL government under the constitution.
What is to look out for the general welfare of all the states together?
When the Supreme Court hears a case that comes up from a lower court, it does so under this juridiction.
What is the Appellate Jurisdiction?
This is the reason there are three branches of government.
What is to limit or check the power of the other branches?
This is the function of the vice president.
These are the 5 purposes for which the Constitution was established.
What are:
1. form a more perfect union
2. establish justice & ensure domestic tranquility
3. provide for the common defense
4. promote general welfare
5. secure blessings of liberty
These are the courts, besides the Supreme Count, that the Constitution established.
What are District Courts and Appellate Courts?
These are the three branches of the US federal government.
What are Executive, Legislative, and Judicial?
These are the three kinds of powers the president holds.
What are
1. powers held alone
2. powers held in conjunction with Congress
3. powers held in relation to Congress?