Cabinet Departments
A recent program to help farmers get loans to improve their technology to improve the storage and transport of their goods was developed by this department.
What is the Department of Agriculture?
This is the job of the legislative branch.
What is to create the laws?
This is the job of the executive branch.
What is to execute the laws created by Congress?
This court is the highest court in the United States.
What is the United States Supreme Court?
This branch can pardon people who have been convicted of crimes and grant them stays on executions.
What is the executive branch?
This is what it's called when a President decides not to pass a bill that is sent to him after passing through Congress.
What is a veto?
The idea that powers are split between a national government and state governments.
What is federalism?
If France wants to work with the United States to launch a program to help citizens be able to do work exchange programs, this is the department they would need to work with.
What is the Department of State? because it deals with foreign policy
This is the Article of the Constitution that created the legislative branch.
What is Article 1?
This is the Article of the Constitution that created the executive branch.
What is Article 2?
This is the Article of the Constitution that created the judicial branch.
What is Article 3?
If the Cherokee nation wants to contract with Europe to provide tobacco to their cigarette companies, this branch would control that deal.
What is the legislative branch?
Powers of the federal government that are written in the Constitution are called this.
What are expressed powers?
This is what it's called when state and federal governments share powers.
What are concurrent powers?
Russia is holding U.S. citizens hostage and tells the President that if we do not provide them with a nuclear weapon that they are going to bomb the country. This department would help deal with this issue.
What is the Department of Defense?
These are the names of the houses of Congress.
What are the lower house called the House of Representatives and the upper house called the Senate?
This is the name of the President's advisory committee.
What is the cabinet?
This job in government has a lifetime appointment.
What is a Supreme Court justice?
If a Supreme Court justice dies in office, this branch is in charge of finding a replacement.
Double points if you tell me which branch has to approve the person who is chosen as the replacement.
The executive branch is in charge of finding a replacement and the legislative branch is in charge of approving the person who is chosen.
The type of government where the people vote for who is going to represent them in government.
What is a representative democracy?
Free space
Congrats on your free points!
The country has decided to make a nationwide curriculum that all schools need to follow. This department would help create that curriculum.
Double points if you can explain why this might not be allowed.
What is the Department of Education?
This is how long people in the House of Representatives and the Senate serve.
What is:
House of Reps - 2 years
Senate - 6 years?
This role of the President means that he is the official head of the military.
What is the commander-in-chief?
This is the main job of the Supreme Court.
What is to determine if laws are constitutional or unconstitutional?
Also known as judicial review
This branch can override a President's veto.
200 bonus for saying which percentage of people is needed to do that.
What is the legislative branch?
Bonus: 2/3 of Congress can override a President's veto
This clause in the Constitution says that the document is the highest law of the land.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
This type of government is run on a federal level only, so all laws apply to every state/province in a country.
What is a unitary government?
There is a U.S. highway in disrepair that needs attention. This department would deal with this issue.
What is the Department of Transportation?
Describe the process of a bill becoming a law. Bonus for telling me what percent constitutes a majority.
What is:
A Congressperson sponsors a bill and introduces it to Congress; the bill goes through hearings, reviews, and markup, gets debated on the floor, and then Congress votes on it. If it passes with a majority, it goes to Senate to be voted on. If it passes in the Senate too, it goes to the President to be signed or vetoed. If signed, it becomes a law?
A majority is 51% or higher
Name the yearly Presidential televised speech that informs the nation of what has been going on in the country during the year prior.
What is the State of the Union address?
When courts write a decision in a case, the words in the opinion are known as this. The decisions are used to help guide other cases.
What is precedent?
These are the articles of the Constitution that created the three branches.
What are:
Article 1: legislative branch
Article 2: executive branch
Article 3: judicial branch?
This is the Constitutional clause that allows the government to do things that are not written explicitly in the Constitution.
Bonus 200 for writing what these types of powers are called.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
Bonus: What are implied powers?
This type of government has the majority of its power held by the states.
Bonus to name America's first constitution that gave the country this type of government.
What is a confederal government?
Bonus: What are the Articles of Confederation?