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The United States Constitution
Legislative Branch
Executive Branch
Judicial Branch
Governing the New Nation
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We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
What is the Preamble to the Constitution?
100
The two parts of Congress (Legislative Branch).
What is the House of Representatives and the Senate?
100
The system that the President is chosen through.
What is the Electoral College?
100
Number of justices in the Supreme Court today.
What is nine?
100
The first three Presidents of the United States.
Who is George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson?
200
This agreement satisfied both the large and small states.
What is the Great Compromise?
200
Living embodiment of Virginia Plan.
What is the House of Representatives?
200
Reason why the President's powers are so limited.
What is to echo the fears voiced at the Constitutional Convention?
200
The highest court in the Judicial Branch.
What is the Supreme Court?
200
The rebellion on a new tax that took place during Washington's presidency.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
300
This agreement satisfied the slave states and the free states.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
300
Living Embodiment of New Jersey Plan.
What is the Senate?
300
The group of secretaries that advises the President.
What is the "cabinet?"
300
The place in the Constitution where it says the regulations to become a justice.
What is it's not written in the Constitution? (trick question)
300
A bill that was passed by Congress authorizing John Adams to arrest, fine, or jail citizens and deport immigrants who criticize the government.
What is the Alien and Sedition Acts?
400
Those who opposed the Constitution.
What is Anti-Federalist?
400
The number of seats in the House and the number of people that each member in the house is a spokesperson for (today).
What is 435 seats and 650,000 people?
400
Job of the State Department, Treasury Department, and the Defense Department.
What is deals with foreign affairs, prints paper currency and collects federal taxes, protecting the security of our country and provides a military when necessary?
400
The 4th, 5th, and 6th amendments bans the government from doing those things.
What is be searched without a search warrant, be forced to speak against yourself in your own trial, and not allowing you to have a fair and speedy trial with witnesses and a lawyer?
400
Jefferson's act that doubled the country.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
500
The main reason why James Madison created a new form of government.
What is the fact the Articles of Confederation were not working?
500
The special powers of the Supreme Court.
What is the approval of treaties with foreign nations, the approval of nominees to the president’s cabinet, and the approval of nominees to the Supreme Court.
500
The 6 positions in the Presidential Line of Succession.
What is the Vice President, Speaker of the House, President pro tempore of Senate, Secretary of State Department, Secretary of Treasury Department, and Secretary of Defense Department?
500
The way that cases come to the Supreme Court.
What is the appeal's process?
500
The Supreme Court first exercised the power of Judicial Review in response to this case.
What is Marbury vs. Madison?