Constitution
Plan of Government
What is a Constitution?
The first plan of government
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The opening statement of the US Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
Place where Constitutional Convention meet in 1787.
What is Philadelphia?
The year the Constitution was approived by the 13 states.
What is 1791?
He wrote most of the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
Two legislative bodies that form Congress.
What is the Senate and the House of Representative?
The number of senators each state have.
What is two?
It is how the number of each state's representatives to the House of Representatives are determined.
What is by population?
Tell two things Congress can do.
What are write a bill, tax, borrow money, print and coin money, declare war, set up federal courts, control trade, give patents and copyrights?
Name the three requirements of becoming a president.
What are must be born in the U.S., must be at least 35 years old and must have lived in the U.S. for 14 years?
Name any two of a president’s duties.
What are enforce laws; serve as Chief of the Armed Forces; grant pardons and reprieves; make treaties; appoint judges; name heads of Executive Departments; call Congress into session; veto acts of Congress?
Each branch has powers that can override, or undo the actions of the other two branches.
What is checks and balances?
The number of Justices on the Supreme Court.
What is nine?
How long can a Supreme Court Judge serve.
What is for life?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution is called.
What is the Bill of Rights?
True or False. The Constitution guarantee you the right to a jury trial.
What is True?
This has the powers, not expressly given to the federal government by the Constitution.
What is the states, as long as it does not conflict with the Constitution?
The powers that the states and federal government share.
What is concurrent powers?
Amendments 13-15 are called the Civil War Amendments. This was abolished by the 13th Amendment.
What is slavery?
The more you make, the more you pay.
What is graduated income tax?
The 18th Amendment was the only one that didn’t work. This Amendment attempted to prohibit.
The making and selling of alcoholic beverages.
In 1920, the 19th Amendment gave women this.
What is the right to vote?
The president's term limit.
What is two terms (8 years)?
Following the election, the president takes office on this month and day.
What is January 20th?