Foundations of Government
A government by the people
What is a democracy?
The branch of government which enforces the laws
What is the Executive Branch?
Number of years in a Senate term
What is 6?
Advisors to the President
What is the Cabinet?
The number of Supreme Court justices
What is 9?
Democracy where citizens pick leaders to represent them in government
What is a republic?
Term meaning made up of 2 houses of government
What is bicameral?
Congressional term limits
What is unlimited?
A written rule issued by the president to direct the executive branch of the US government
What is an executive order?
The most senior justice on the Supreme Court
What is the Chief Justice?
An agreement for the people to cooperate in exchange for benefits from the government
What is a social contract?
Number of Articles in the Constitution
What is 7?
Vote needed to pass a bill through Congress
What is a majority vote?
Precedent set by George Washington concerning the presidency
What is limit of 2 terms or establishing a Cabinet?
Little books that lawyers write in to present their constitutional arguments
What are briefs?
Idea that all people must abide by the law, no one is above the law
What is Rule of Law?
ONE protection in the Preamble to the Constitution
What is establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, Provide for the common defense, Promote the general welfare, Secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves, OR Secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity?
Powers not exactly stated in the Constitution
What are implied powers?
THREE requirements to be President
What is 35 years old, natural born citizen of the US, resident of the US for 14 years?
THREE levels of Federal Courts
What is the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals & District Courts?
One economic weakness of the Articles of Confederation
What is Congress couldn't regulate trade or tax and no united currency?
THREE aspects of the Presidency Compromise at the Constitutional Convention
What is Electoral College, 4 year terms and unlimited terms?
TWO powers of Congress (NOT checks & balances)
What is collect taxes, borrow money, regulate commerce, coin money, establish post offices & roads, declare war, raise and support military, make all laws which shall be necessary and proper?
TWO powers of the President
What is Commander in Chief of the military, appoint judges & executive branch officials, make Treaties, grant pardons, “take care that the laws be faithfully executed”?
The THREE opinions often written as a result of a Supreme Court decision
What are majority, concurring and dissenting opinions?