Judicial Branch
How long does a Supreme Court Justice serve?
What is for Life?
Name one thing that Congress has the power to do
What is, collect taxes, borrow money, and coin money?
What system ultimately elects a president?
What is the Electoral College?
In order to fairly represent all states, the Great Compromise between the Virginia and Jew Jersey Plans established a legislature of how many houses?
What is 2?
What was the first system of government in the United States called?
What is the Articles of Confederation?
How many Supreme Court Justices are there now?
What is 9?
The Great Compromise resulted in the 2-house legislature we have today. What are these houses called?
What is the Senate and the House of Representatives?
The president can check congress with this executive tool
What is Veto?
What happened to the amount of representation southern states had in congress due to the addition of the 3/5 compromise?
What is an increase/ more representatives?
The election of representatives rather than pure democracy reflects the principle of what?
(I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USA and to the....)
What is republicanism/Republic?
What is one way in which the Supreme Court checks other branches?
What is Judicial Review?
How long is a term for a member of the Senate?
What is 6 years?
The legislative branch makes the law, the judicial branch interprets the law, the executive branch does what?
What is enforces the law?
When the Convention produced the Constitution, what 2 groups argued for and against ratification by publishing papers arguing their positions?
Who were the Federalists and Anti-Federalists?
What does the first amendment protect?
What is speech, religion, assembly?
What are the two names for the interpretations of the Constitution? (Scalia v Breyer)
What are Originalists and Evolutionists?
What portion of both houses' votes are needed to override a presidential veto?
What is 2/3?
This president led the Constitutional Convention
Who is George Washington?
"We the People" best describes the founders' intentions for the Constitutional government to convey the principle of popular sovereignty. What does that mean?
What is that power comes from the people?
How many articles are in the Constitution?
What is 7?
In what case did the Supreme Court win itself the ability to conduct Judicial Review?
What is Marbury v Madison?
What part of Congress is responsible for starting an appropriations (budget) bill?
What is the House of Representatives?
Who is part of the executive branch other than the president?
What is the cabinet and agencies?
Though he did not lead the convention, this man is known as the "father" of it because of how his ideas about the structure of a democratic government influenced other founders
Who is James Madison?
This clause allows congress to stretch its authority to beyond constitutional limits to accomplish whatever is deemed necessary and proper. Commonly referred to as the...
What is the Elastic Clause?