Legislative Branch
This many people are in the senate.
What is 100?
Leader of this branch
What is the President?
The top court in the US.
The supreme court
This is the number of original amendemnts passed to the Bill of Rights
10
This person was the only president to be elected unanimously.
Who was George Washington?
This is how the number of people in the House of Representatives is decided.
What is population?
What are all of the parts of this branch?
President, Vice President, and Cabinet
What does this branch do?
Decide if laws are Constitutional and interprets the meaning of laws/the Constitution
What is the First Amendment?
Freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.
This section of government has the power to say the punishment of treason.
What is the Congress?
The two parts of Congress were decided with this compromise.
The Great Compromise
What does this branch do?
Talks with other countries, signs/vetos laws, and the President is the leader of the military.
There are this many justices on the supreme court.
What is 9?
This amendment allows people to bear arms.
What is the second Amendment?
First document/frame of government in the US
The Articles of Confederation
This person is the leader of the senate and breaks ties.
Who is the Vice President?
How long MAX can the President serve?
8 years (2 4 year terms)
This is the term length of supreme court justices
for LIFE!
This amendment makes it so people do not have to house soldiers.
What is the third Amendment?
How many original states were there in the US?
13
When the constitution was written, which type of states preferred the Senate style of representation and which type of states preferred the House?
Low-population states prefer the Senate and high population states prefer the House because they have more votes
What does the Cabinet do?
Advise the President and are leader of Federal Departments
Who chooses the Supreme Court justices?
The President nominates them, but Congress has to approve them.
This is the person who wrote the majority of the Bill of Rights.
James Madison
Was the Articles of Confederation a success? Explain
NO! Explain why