Legislative
What is a Bicameral legislature?
What is a legislature with two houses.
How many members of the Supreme Court are there?
9
The age and citizenship requirements for the president.
What is 35 and 14 years
Which article talks about the presidential powers and duties?
What is Article II
The number of representatives in the house is determined by:
What is population
This can start impeachment trials
The House of Representatives
This is the ability to review cases and declare a law or decision unconstitutional
What is Judicial Review
The president's departments are also known as his what?
What is the President's Cabinet?
How does the government change the constitution?
What are amendments?
Concurrent Powers are
What is powers shared by the national and state governments
This is one way the legislative branch checks the Judicial
They confirm appointments OR
Can impeach Justices
This is the ability of lower courts to hear a case first.
What is Original Jurisdiction
Daily Double
The independent regulatory agency that monitors the Radio, TV, Movies, and video games is what?
What is the FCC OR Federal Communications Commission.
Which article describes the Judicial hierarchy in the United States?
What is article III (3)
These are powers that ONLY the Senate has
The ability to make treaties, to break a Vice presidential electoral college tie, confirms presidential appointments.
This compromise created the bicameral Legislature
What is the Connecticut Compromise
This is the court case that started Judicial Review
What is Marbury vs Madison
This is the name of the meeting where the president addressing all three branches of government speaking of his plan for the following year.
What is the State of the Union
These powers are left to the states because they are not mentioned in the constitution.
What is reserved powers?
The US getting involved in a war with its allies is considered this kind of interventionism
What is Multilateral interventionism
These are the enumerated powers of the House of Representatives
What is initiate revenue bills, impeach federal officials, and break a presidential electoral tie.
What is judicial activism?
The judges using their decision to read between the lines of the constitution to apply to our modern day society or to pursue their own moral agenda.
2 ways the President checks the legislative branch are:
What is Veto AND starting and ending meetings with Congress.
What does Article 2 leave out of the description for the Presidency?
What is term length?
Power not listed in the constitution that are required to carry out enumerated powers are called:
What is Implied Powers?