The Executive Branch
This is the constitutional article where the Executive Branch is outlined.
What is Article II?
This is the common name for the legislative branch.
What is Congress?
This is the number of freedoms found in the first amendment.
What is six?
This is put in place so that no part of our government can get too powerful.
What is checks and balances?
This is the document that the Constitution replaced.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This is when the President decides to deny a bill from becoming a law.
What is veto?
This is the main role of the legislative branch.
What is to make laws?
This is the amendment in which the Due Process clause is found.
What is the Fifth?
This fundamental principle says the government gets its power from the people, not from a king or from god.
What is popular sovereignty?
These are the list of powers granted to Congress and written out in Article 1 of the Constitution.
What are express powers?
The executive branch has the power to appoint these people.
What is Supreme court justices, ambassadors and cabinet members?
Bills can be proposed by these people.
What are all Representatives and Senators?
Police cannot search and seize property without this.
What is a warrant and/or probable cause?
This is when state and federal governments share power.
What is federalism?
This clause of the Constitution gives the federal government precedence over the state and local governments.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
This is the group of delegates that casts votes for the President, based on the number of Representatives plus the number of Senators.
What is the Electoral College?
This is the term for what happens when Representatives and Senators vote along party lines, instead of for the needs and wants of their constituents.
What is partisanship?
The 10th Amendment says that all powers not explicitly given to the federal government go here.
What is to the states, or to the people?
This fundamental principle gives the judicial branch the rights to evaluate laws and determine their connstitutionality.
What is judicial review?
This amendment extends constitutional protections found in the Bill of Rights to all state laws.
What is the 14th?
This is the maximum number of years a President can be in office.
What is 10 years? (Presidents can only be elected for two terms -- 8 years -- but Presidents can actually serve for 10 years.)
This is the type of power found in the Necessary & Proper Clause (Elastic Clause).
What is an implied power?
The eighth amendment protects citizens from these two forms of government overreach.
What are excessive bail and cruel & unusual punishment?
This fundamental principle said that the government should not become too powerful, and therefore should be distributed to the people and private enterprise.
What is limited government?
This clause gave the federal government the right to make any laws it needed to carry out its express powers.
What is the Necessary & Proper Clause?