Article I
This is the branch discussed throughout Article I of the US Constitution.
What is the legislative branch?
This is the branch discussed throughout Article II of the US Constitution.
What is the Executive Branch?
These are the names of the chambers of Congress.
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
A person must be at least this age to become president.
What is 35 years old?
This person would be the head of the executive branch at the state level.
Who is a governor?
The primary responsibility of the legislative branch is to do this.
What is to make laws?
This is the main job of the executive branch.
What is to approve, enforce, or execute laws?
Every state has this many senators, regardless of population.
What is two?
The president is chosen through this system, not by direct popular vote.
What is the Electoral College?
This person is the head of the executive branch at the local level when there is a council set up for the legislative branch.
Who is a mayor?
This clause allows Congress to pass laws that are “necessary and proper” as society changes.
What is the Elastic Clause?
This presidential role makes the president the leader of the armed forces.
What is Commander-in-Chief?
Members of the House of Representatives serve terms lasting this long.
What is two years?
This power allows the president to reject a bill passed by Congress.
What is veto power?
This type of election is used to remove a local official.
What is a recall election?
Congress uses this power to formally charge a federal official with misconduct.
What is impeachment?
Fill in the blanks: "No Person except a ____ _____ _____...at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States. "
What is a natural born citizen?
This official presides over the Senate and breaks tie votes.
Who is the Vice-President?
This system limits executive power by allowing other branches to challenge actions.
What is checks and balances?
Which of the following is a power associated with a local executive; issuing curfews or issuing pardons?
What is issuing curfews?
Per Article I Section 2, every ten years, this is conducted to look for possible population changes and, if there are, re-balances how many representatives each state should have in the House of Representatives.
What is the census?
This power allows the president to forgive someone convicted of a federal crime.
What is power of the pardon?
This chamber of Congress has the check and balance power of approve/denying Presidential nominations.
What is the Senate?
These are special government organizations set up for specific purposes. Most federal agencies are in the executive branch. Examples are the FBI, EPA, and CDC
What are federal agencies?
These are elected officials who lead local departments in city government. Hernando County has this set up for our local government.
What are commissioners?