Legislative Branch
This many people are in the Senate, and this many are from each state.
What is 100? What is 2?
This person is the head of the executive branch of the government?
What is the president.
There are this many justices on the supreme court.
What is 9?
This amendment allows people to bear arms.
What is the second Amendment?
This is the name of the system of government that divides powers between state and federal governments.
What is federalism.
This is the reason that some states have more representatives than others in the House of Representatives.
Bonus 100: How many representatives are there in total?
What is representation is based on population?
What is 435?
This person becomes the president if the president dies or resigns from office.
Bonus 100: This person is next in line in presidential succession.
Who is the Vice President?
Who is the President Pro Tempore? The senior most member of the majority party.
This was the name of the landmark Supreme Court decision that ruled in 1954 that segregation in schools was unconstitutional.
What is the case of Brown vs. the Board of Education.
This is the name of the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, added before the states would ratify, or approve, it.
What is the Bill of Rights.
According to the constitution, the power to wage war belongs to the legislative branch of the federal or state governments.
What is the federal government?
This is the length of term for a US Senator.
Bonus 100: This is the length of a term for a Representative in the House of Representatives.
What is 6 years?
What is 2 years?
The name of the group of people including the vice president that lead the different executive departments (such as the department of homeland security, department of health and human services, department of defense, etc.)
This is the name of the leader of the Supreme Court
Who is the Chief Justice?
This is the amendment that was added after the Civil War that guaranteed the protect of a citizen's right to vote. Extra 100 for each of the following.
What were are at least three techniques that were used to get around this amendment and disenfranchise voters?
Name at least two groups that were excluded from this protection until much later.
What is the 15th.
This is the name of the type of power that is shared by both the federal and state governments.
Bonus 100: Name at least one of these powers.
What is concurrent powers.
Power to tax, build roads, create lower courts.
This person is the president of the senate.
Who is the Vice President?
This is the name of the presidential power to reject laws that are passed by the Congress.
What is veto power?
In the case of Madison vs. Marbury 1803, the principle of Judicial Review was established, which says the the the courts have the power to strike down laws passed by Congress that violate what document.
What is the Constitution.
"unconstitutional" -violating the laws as laid out in the Constitution of a country.
What was the amendment that abolished slavery?
Bonus 100: Explain the loophole that was used by many to reestablish slave-like working conditions for many Blacks.
What is the 13th amendment?
According to article 1 of the Constitution, this is the name of the powers of the federal government.
Bonus 50: for each of these powers that you can name
What are the enumerated powers.
Wage war, create an army, print money, make treaties, regulate foreign and interstate commerce/trade, levy taxes.
This is a main function of the Legislative Branch.
What is to make and pass laws, declare war, approve or deny presidential appointments, run investigations and impeach government officials, approve taxes, borrow money, approve treaties signed by the president
Starting with the current president, name as many in reverse order as you can. The group with the most correct in order will win the points
Joe Biden, Donal Trump, Barak Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, ...
This is the landmark Supreme Court ruling from 1973, stating that a right to an abortion should be protected under the 14th amendment, was overturned in the summer of 2022 in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health.
What is Roe vs. Wade?
This is the amendment that protects citizens against illegal searches and seizures of their personal property, therefore requiring a court issued warrant for such searches.
What is 4th amendment.
Explain one reason why federalism might be a good system for a country and one reason why it might make things complicated.
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