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Legislative Branch
Executive Branch
Judicial Branch
Types of Governments and Economies
Significant Documents
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Article 1.
What articles in the constitution deal with the Legislative Branch?
100
To take over as president if the president dies or can no longer do the job of president.
What is the main job of the Vice President?
100
3.
How many levels of the court system are there?
100
A form of government in which a majority retains all power; majority rule.
What is Democracy?
100
The Miranda Warning was created in the 1960s to protect the rights of those questioned by the police in a coercive or threatening manner.
What is the Miranda Warning?
200
There are 435 members of the House of Representatives and 100 Senators.
How many members are in the Legislative Branch?
200
15.
How many different Cabinet departments are there?
200
Supreme Court.
What is the highest court system?
200
Laissez-Faire from French means to leave alone.
What does Laissez-Faire mean?
200
The right to bear arms applies to every American citizen regardless of state. Unless of course you are a convicted felon.
What does The Right To Bare Arm mean and do?
300
Census.
What is taken every 10 years to determine if a state will gain or lose representatives?
300
Vice President.
Which part of the Executive Branch votes to break a tie in the Senate?
300
9.
How many members of the Supreme Court are there?
300
Aristocracy is the highest class in society, They influence government by money.
What does Aristocracy mean?
300
Search and Seizure is a procedure used in many civil law and common law legal systems whereby police or other authorities and their agents, who suspect that a crime has been committed, do a search of a person's property and confiscate any relevant evidence to the crime.
What is Illegal Search And Seizure?
400
Apportionment means how they will assign representatives to states and districts and it has everything to do with the House because the members are decided by population.
What does apportion mean? How does this term apply to the houses?
400
8 years.
What is the longest time that one person can be president?
400
Brown v. Board of Education.
What is one of the famous Supreme Court cases?
400
China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos and North Korea.
What countries are in Communism?
400
You have the right to have your case heard by a jury.
What does the the Right to Trial by Jury mean?
500
The Chamber (House or Senate) will assign a temporary member till the president appoints someone.
If someone dies or resigns during their term, how can their seat be filled?
500
20th.
Amendment changing the date when the President takes over
500
Interpret the law.
What does the Judicial Branch do?
500
A form of government where the nation is ruled by a small clique of people.
What is Oligarchy?
500
A Prior Restraint is a legal restraint on material before publication. It’s an order that prevents publication.
What is Prior Restraint?