Foundation of the U.S. Government
This position is the head of the National Executive Branch in the United States.
What is the President of the United States?
This body of government can declare war.
Who is Congress?
In the process of lawmaking, a future law always starts out as this in Congress.
What is a bill?
This branch of government interprets laws to ensure they are Constitutional.
What is the Judicial Branch?
Our government has this many branches.
What is 3 branches?
This position is the head of a state's Executive Branch.
What is the Governor?
The branch of government makes laws.
Who is Congress?
This word means two sides or two branches.
What is bicameral?
This is the length of a term for a Supreme Court Justice.
What is a lifetime?
These are the names of each of our three branches of government.
What are Legislative, Executive, and Judicial?
It provided a weak Federal government, making it difficult to get things done.
Why did the Articles of Confederation fail?
This group in government has 435 members.
What is the House of Representatives?
Issues that are not mentioned in the Constitution are addressed by this group.
What are the states or the people?
This governing document failed because it gave little to no real power to the federal government.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
The Supremacy Clause does this.
What is establish the Constitution as the law of the land?
There are 100 members in this group of government.
What is the Senate?
A bill involving taxes must start here.
What is the House of Representatives?
The Congress can override a President's veto of a bill, by doing this?
What is securing a 2/3rds vote in both the House and the Senate?
This is the length of a member of the House of Representatives term.
What is 2-years?
Gave Congress the ability to make all laws they deem necessary and proper to govern the country.
What is the Elastic Clause?
This agreement decided that representation in the House would be determined by population, and representation in the Senate would be equal.
What was the Great or Connecticut Compromise?
This is the length of a Senators term.
What is 6-years?
To accuse a public official of a crime.
What is impeachment?
In the lawmaking process, a bill must survive this before being voted on.
What is the Committee process?
Under this article of the Constitution you will find the description for the role of the Presidency.
What is Article 2?