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?
States needed to propose a change to the Constitution.
What is 3/4 of the states?
The number of years between the presidential election.
What is every 4 years?
Created by Article 1.
What is the Legislative branch?
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?
The Articles of Confederation did not allow for a chief executive or president.
What is not giving too much power to the federal government?
Preamble
What is the introduction to the Constitution?
The power the President has to reject a bill passed by the legislative branch.
What is Veto?
Each branch of the government has different authority under the Constitution.
What is Separation of Powers?
The three branches of the federal government.
What is the legislative branch, the executive branch and the judicial branch?
The names of the current head of the Executive branch of Washington.
What is Governor Jay Inslee ?
Created by Article 2
What is the Executive Branch?
A law is struck down by the US Supreme Court.
What is an unconstitutional law?
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.
What is the Cabinet?
Amendments to the Constitution.
What is 27?
The government branch that makes the laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
The first 10 amendments of the Constitution.
What are the Bill of Rights?
A law starts as this.
What is a Bill?
A law cannot require every citizen to belong to the same church.
What is the First Amendment (freedom of religion, )?
Articles in the Constitution.
What is 7?