Presidential
This is how the President prevents a bill from becoming a law and checks legislative power.
What is the presidential veto?
This is how a President can address urgent issues quickly and without congressional approval.
What is an executive order?
The highest court in the United States.
What is the Supreme Court?
The name of a proposed law introduced in Congress.
What is a bill?
It protects freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the first amendment?
This is the case that etablished judicial review, which gave the Supreme Court the power to check the constitutionality of a president's actions.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This is how a President makes agreements with foreign nations without the U.S. Senate’s approval.
What is an executive agreement?
This power allows the Supreme Court to declare laws or actions unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
This branch of government has the power to create laws.
What is the legislative branch?
This is the name of the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This is the role of the president in which they meet with foreign leaders, negotiate treaties, shape foreign policy, and appoint ambassadors to represent the U.S. abroad.
What is the president’s role as Chief Diplomat?
This is the role of the president in which they are responsible for ensuring that laws are faithfully executed.
What is the president’s role as Chief Executive?
This power was introduced by Chief Justice John Marshall and allows the Supreme Court to decide whether laws and government actions abide by the constitution.
What is judicial review?
Before a bill becomes a law, it must be approved by both of these parts of Congress.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
This compromise settled the debate over representation by creating two houses of Congress.
This is the role that President Eisenhower used during Little Rock Arkansas when he sent troops Arkansas to uphold and enforce integration in education.
What is the president’s role as Commander in Chief?
This is was created by President FDR’s series of executive orders, which took immediate action to address the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
In this case, it was ruled that Virginia's law banning interracial marriage was unconstitutional by the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment.
What is Loving v. Virginia?
If the President rejects a bill, this is what it is called.
What is a veto?
List three ways the US Constitution is different from the Articles of Confederation.
What are: it created a strong centralized government, established three branches of government, and allowed for federal taxation? (Other acceptable answers: included a Bill of Rights, solved interstate issues, made it easier to enact change)
This resolution was passed after the Vietnam War to limit the president’s power to deploy military forces without formal declaration of war from Congress.
What is the War Powers Act?
The power that President Nixon claimed to have during his Watergate scandal that would’ve allowed him to maintain confidentiality and would’ve justifed his refusal to hand over his audio tapes.
What is Executive Privilege?
This is the process that a case must go through before it is heard in the Supreme Court. Cases start off in lower courts. If the losing party is unsatisfied, they can file a request to send the case to the Supreme Court for review.
What is the process of petitioning for certiorari?
If the president vetos a bill, Congress can still make it law with this fraction of votes in both houses.
What is a two-thirds majority?
The uprising that demonstrated the advantage of granting the federal government the power to levy taxes and proved the effectiveness of the Constitution.
What is the Whisky Rebellion?