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Is it in the Constitution? AP Government

Phase 1 Congress can pass laws. - Yes Executive privilege. - No President can veto legislation. - Yes The creation of a Presidential Cabinet - No Only one Supreme Court. - Yes

Phase 2 Political parties and conventions Senate confirms Justices. Judicial Review. President appoints Justices. The right to a jury trial

To propose an amendment→ To ratify an amendment Three-fourths of the state legislatures approve of it, or Ratifying conventions in three-fourths of the states approve it Two thirds of both houses of Congress vote to propose an amendment or Two-thirds of the state legislatures ask Congress to call a national convention to propose amendments.

Judicial Review Cases Marbury vs. Madison (1803) McCulloch vs. Maryland (1819)