U.S. Government
A system of government by the people in which citizens choose their leaders through elections.
What is democracy?
This person is the national leader of the executive branch.
Who is the President of the United States?
The primary role of the legislative branch.
What is make/write/create laws?
The highest court in the federal judiciary.
What is the Supreme Court?
The president's power to reject a bill passed by Congress.
What is veto?
A system of government in which national and state governments share power.
What is federalism?
When leading the U.S. armed forces, the president is referred to by this title.
What is Commander-in-Chief?
The name used when referring to both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
What is Congress?
The name of the head judge on the U.S. Supreme Court.
What is Chief Justice?
The Vice President is the only public official that can exercise power in these two branches of the government.
What are the executive and legislative branches?
The letter send to King George III by the founding fathers demanding freedom from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The name for the president's power to change the way an executive agency can apply or enforce a law.
What is executive order?
The name of the most powerful leader in the House of Representatives.
What is Speaker of the House?
What is the dissenting opinion?
What is impeachnment?
This document contains instructions for how the three branches of government should function and the Bill of Rights.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
The president's power to keep intelligence and national security secrets from the public.
What is executive privilege?
These congressional groups contain members of both the House and the Senate.
What are joint committees?
The term length of Supreme Court Justices
What is life?
The power to confirm judges and executive leaders appointed by the president is assigned to this chamber of Congress.
Who/What is the Senate?
This system ensures that no single branch of government can exercise too much power.
What is checks and balances?
The day that the president-elect becomes the president by taking the Oath of Office in front of the U.S. Capitol.
What is Inauguration Day?
This clause gives Congress the power to carry out duties not otherwise specified in the Constitution.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
The rule that determines which of the 7,000 appeals are added to the Supreme Court's docket.
What is the Rule of Four?
The Supreme Court has the power to reject laws and executive orders that conflict with our founding documents by labeling them using this term.
What is unconstitutional?