Constitution Stuff
An alteration of or addition to a motion, bill, constitution, etc.
What is an amendment?
This article describes how the US Constitution could be altered.
What is Article V?
Every state gets two of these in Congress.
What is a Senator?
This article establishes the legislative branch.
What is Article I?
This article establishes the executive branch.
What is Article II?
This article establishes the judicial branch.
What is Article III?
This article explains how new states can enter the Union.
What is Article IV?
This article describes how the US Constitution could be approved.
What is Article VII?
This is the number of states necessary to establish the US Constitution as law between them.
What is nine?
This article establishes the Constitution and federal laws as the supreme law of the land.
What is Article VI?
The action of signing or giving formal consent to a treaty, contract, or agreement, making it officially valid.
What is ratification?
This title held by the president means he is head of the military.
What is Commander in Chief?
The length of a Supreme Court justice's term.
What is life?
The removal of a governmental official due to an offense.
What is impeachment?
A statement recited by the president upon his election stating that he will uphold the Constitution.
What is the Oath of Office?
The act of a territory being admitted into the Union as a state.
What is annexation?
A court that exercises jurisdiction over federal law -- not state law.
What is a federal court?
A state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.
What is a republic?
This was the ninth state to ratify the US Constitution.
What is New Hampshire?
To apply for review of a case or particular issue to a higher court.
What is appealing?
A person who would temporarily preside over the Senate in place of the Vice President.
Who is President pro tempore?
The number of members of a group or organization required to be present to transact business legally, usually a majority.
What is a quorum?
To impede legislation by irregular or obstructive tactics, especially by making long speeches.
What is a filibuster?
Trade, the business of buying and selling.
What is commerce?
The official process of one state surrendering a fugitive to the state where the person is wanted.
What is extradition?