Legislative Branch
The two parts of Congress.
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
The head of the Executive Branch.
Who is the president?
The number of judges in the highest court of the United States.
What are 9 judges?
A government by the people.
What is democracy?
The first 10 amendments.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The total number of members of the Senate.
What are 100 members?
The number of terms the head of the Executive branch can serve.
What is 2 terms?
The highest court in the United States.
What is the Supreme Court?
To block a decision or say "no".
What is a veto?
The total number of Amendments.
What is 27?
The total number of members of the House of Representatives.
What are 435 members?
A special group of secretaries.
What is the cabinet?
Justices serve this long.
What is for life?
To charge a governing official with a crime.
What is to impeach?
The main purpose of the Bill of Rights.
What is to ensure personal liberties for all American citizens?
What does Congress overrides the president's veto and signs the bill into law?
Responsibilities of the cabinet members.
What is to run large government departments?
Cases are decided by the majority. The majority is:
What is 5 out of 9 judges?
Connecting two or more states.
What is interstate?
The fraction of states to ratify an amendment to change the Constitution?
What is 3/4ths?
The number one job/duty of the Legislative branch.
What is to make laws?
List the six powers of the president.
This authorizes the justices to interpret the meaning of the Constitution.
What is the Judicial Review?
To approve or say "yes" to something suggested.
What is to ratify?
The three main categories of the Bill of Rights.
What are individual freedoms, protections against government abuse and power, and the rights of people accused of crimes?