US Constitution 1
The name of a person who speaks for a group.
What is a representative?
A change to the Constitution.
What is an amendment?
The two groups that make up Congress.
What is The House of Representatives and the Senate?
The length of one presidential term.
What is 4 years?
This person is the leader of the Executive Branch.
Who is the president?
Each branch of government helps to restrict power of the other two branches.
What are Checks and Balances?
Three parts to the Constitution in the correct order.
What is the Preamble, the Articles, Amendments?
Congress needs this to override his veto.
What is 2/3 of the Congress?
Group part of the Legislative Branch & the people included in the group from each state is based on the state's population.
What is the House of Representatives?
The Preamble is...
What is the introduction to the Constitution?
The power the President has to reject a bill passed by the legislative branch.
What is Veto?
What are the first 3 words of the Preamble?
What is "We the people?"
The three branches of the federal government.
What is the legislative branch, the executive branch and the judicial branch?
100 people make up this group. 2 people from each state.
What is the Senate?
The 2 groups of the federal system of government.
What is the National Government and the State Government?
The US Supreme Court meets to discuss if a law is constitutional or not.
What is a Judicial Review?
The branch of government made up US Supreme Court and Federal courts.
What is the Judicial Branch?
The Bill of Rights apply to these people.
What are US citizens?
The group of advisors to the President (his besties).
What is the Cabinet?
The number of Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
What is 27?
The government branch that makes the laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
The first 10 amendments of the Constitution are called..
What are the Bill of Rights?
A law starts as this.
What is a Bill?
The number of justices that serve on the Supreme Court.
What is 9 justices (judges)?
The number of Articles in the U.S. Constitution.
What is 7?