Legislative Branch
This is the governing body that makes up the Legislative Branch.
What is Congress?
This person is the head of the Executive Branch.
Who is the President of the United States of America?
This is the number of Supreme Court Justices.
What is nine?
This is the purpose of the checks and balances system.
What is to prevent any one branch from growing larger than intended/to prevent a monarchy?
The House has this many members.
What is 435?
Congress is made up these two chambers.
What is the House of Representatives and the Senate?
This is the role of the Vice President in the Senate.
What is the tie breaker/President of the Senate?
Federal judges and Supreme Court justices serve for this length of time.
What is life or until retirement?
This is a check against the Executive Branch.
What is the Judicial branch can declare an executive action or order unconstitutional, and the Legislative branch can reject treaties, override the veto, refuse funding for presidential agenda, reject presidential appointments, etc.?
A senator serves terms of this length.
What is six years?
The legislative branch has the power to override this presidential action with a two-thirds majority.
What is the veto?
This group of advisors helps the president lead the executive branch.
What is the Cabinet?
These courts make up most of the federal judiciary and are where most federal cases begin.
What are District Courts?
The president checks the judicial branch by doing this with judges
What is appointing/nominating federal judges?
True or False: Ms. Daley could be a Senator
What is False?
Congress has the power to do these things; name five.
What is write and pass bills, set the federal budget, set federal taxes, approve or reject presidential appointments, declare war, approve or reject treaties, impeach and remove federal officials, and override a presidential veto?
This is the number of electoral college votes needed to win the presidency.
What is 270?
These are the requirements needed to be a federal judge.
What is nothing but Senate approval?
The Supreme Court checks the other branches by determining whether their actions follow this document.
What is the Constitution?
This chamber holds the trial after a president is impeached.
What is the Senate?
Because Congress has two chambers, it is considered this system.
What is bicameral?
This is the purpose of the electoral college.
What is to vote for the President by giving all of the electoral votes assigned to a state to the candidate that won the largest majority of votes in the general popular election?
These two kinds of cases are some of those heard in federal court.
What are cases involving more than one state, cases involving federal laws, cases involving the US Constitution, and/or cases involving a dollar amount over $75,000?
This role of the President cannot be checked or balanced by another branch.
What is Chief Citizen or Chief of Party?
This chamber introduces articles of impeachment.
What is the House?