Constitutional principles
This principle means government power is limited by law.
What is Limited Government?
This branch of government makes laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This branch carries out the law.
What is the Executive Branch?
The lowest federal courts where trials happen.
What are District Courts?
This clause allows Congress to make laws needed to carry out its powers.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
Self-rule is also known as this.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
The lower house of Congress with 435 members.
What is the House of Representatives?
Orders issued by the president that can bypass Congress.
What are Executive Orders?
The power of the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional.
What is Judicial Review?
This clause allows Congress to regulate trade between states.
What is the Commerce Clause?
This system divides government into three branches.
What is Separation of Powers?
A senator talking nonstop to delay a vote.
What is a Filibuster?
The president’s group of department heads who advise him.
What is the Cabinet?
The 1803 case that established judicial review
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The Supreme Court case affirming federal law is supreme over state law involving a national bank.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
This system allows each branch to limit the power of another branch.
What are Checks and Balances?
Powers specifically listed in the Constitution.
What are Enumerated Powers?
The president’s ability to use their position to draw attention to issues
What is the Bully Pulpit?
The principle that previous court decisions guide current cases.
What is Stare Decisis?
The 1951 amendment limiting presidents to two terms.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
This clause declares the Constitution the supreme law of the land.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
The 1913 amendment allowing voters to elect senators directly.
What is the Seventeenth Amendment?
The group that officially elects the president.
What is the Electoral College?
The two-step process of removing a federal official
What is Impeachment?
This Supreme Court case overturned “separate but equal.”
What is Brown v. Board of Education?