#1: The US Constitution: Limits and Powers
This branch of government has the power to make laws.
What is the legislative branch?
The amendment that abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Wyoming was the first state to grant this political right to women.
What is the right to vote?
The head of the Executive branch at the federal level.
Who is the President?
The US President is required to give this speech to Congress "from time to time."
What is the State of the Union Address?
Only this branch can declare war.
What is Congress?
The amendment that guarantees freedom of speech, press, and religion.
What is the 1st Amendment?
Wyoming's Constitution states that this natural resource must be supervised and allocated by the state.
What is water?
The number of US senators each state sends to Congress.
What is two?
The Wyoming Constitution states that "absolute and arbitrary power" exists where?
What is nowhere in a republic?
This clause gives Congress the ability to make all laws "necessary and proper."
What is the Elastic (Necessary and Proper) Clause?
This amendment lowered the voting age to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
Wyoming requires this number of hours for "a lawful day's work" in mines and public projects.
What is 8 hours?
The judicial branch's main activity.
What is interpreting the law?
Railroads in Wyoming cannot do this with state or local governmental funds.
What is solicit or accept funds?
This is one thing thaf Congress is forbidden to grant, showing limits on its authority.
What are titles of nobility?
The right to bear arms is protected in this amendment.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
The Wyoming Constitution requires laws to protect this category of animals important to ranchers.
What is livestock?
In Wyoming, the Board of Control is responsible for this.
What is supervising water rights?
True or false: No religious test is required for holding office. This is guaranteed by both the US and Wyoming Constitutions.
What is true?
The principle that the federal Constitution is the "supreme law of the land" is called this.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
This amendment says that powers not given to the federal government are reserved to the states or the people.
What is the 10th Amendment?
This part of the Wyoming Constitution says that the state is inseparable from the Union and subject to the US Constitution.
What are Article 1, Section 37 and Article 21, Section 24 (Wyoming inseperable from the Union/Supremacy of the US Constitution?
This branch of the US government has the right to determine if a law is constitutional or not.
What is the Judicial branch?
The preambles of the US and Wyoming Constitutions are different, but both emphasize these kinds of liberties.
What are civil, political, and religious liberties?