Legislative Branch Executive Branch Judicial Branch Bill of Rights Amendments

Question What are the two houses of Congress and how many representatives are in each?

Answer 1 – 10 House of Representatives (435) and the Senate (100)

Question What is the minimum age for a Representative and a Senator?

Answer 1 – for the Senate, 25 for the House

Question What is the job of the Legislative Branch?

Answer 1 – 30 Make/Write Laws

Question List two powers of Congress

Answer 1 – 40 Create rules on how to become a citizen Collect taxes, pay debts, and borrow money Regulate commerce (trade) between the states and with other countries Coin money and punish counterfeiters Punish pirates Establish post offices, protect patents and copyrights Create lower federal courts Declare war, raise and support an Army and Navy Make any other laws that are “necessary and proper” to carry our the powers in this list

Question The legislative branch checks over the ____________ branch by…?

Answer 1 – 50 Executive: Override presidential veto's Impeach or convict the president Judicial: Confirm or refuse Justices Impeach or convict Justices

Question What are the names of the President and Vice President?

Answer 2 – 10 Barack Obama and Joe Biden

Question What is the job of the executive branch?

Answer 2 – 20 Execute/enforce laws

Question What is the presidential “cabinet” and how many departments are there?

Answer 2 – 30 Advise and lead different departments of the executive branch, 15 departments

Question List two powers of the president

Answer 2 – 40 Power to carry out the laws Must live by the Constitution Commander in Chief of the military Ask his advisors, who lead parts of the government, for their opinion on different issues Can pardon someone for a crime, which gets them out of jail or stops the death penalty Can make treaties with other countries (with Senate approval) Can choose new Supreme Court justices (with Senate approval) Make recommendations to Congress about what bills to work on Update Congress on how things are going in the country Sign (approve) or veto a bill from Congress

Question The executive branch checks over the ________________ branch by…?

Answer 2 – 50 Legislative: Proposing legislation Preparing an annual budget for Congress to Approve Call a special session of Congress Veto a bill Judicial: Appoint a Supreme Court Justice

Question How many Supreme Court justices are there? And what is the requirement to become a Supreme Court Justice?

Answer 3 – 10 9, No formal requirement

Question Which Court system was created by the Constitution and deals with disputes about laws that apply to the United States?

Answer 3 – 20 Federal Court System

Question What is the job of the judicial branch?

Answer 3 – 30 Interpret/judge if laws are constitutional

Question What does the term “judicial review” mean?

Answer 3 – 40 The courts/judicial branch have the power to say whether a law is constitutional or not

Question The judicial branch checks over the _________________ branch by…..?

Answer 3 – 50 Legislative Branch: Declare laws/acts of congress unconstitutional Executive Branch Declare executive actions/orders to be unconstitutional

Question Freedom of religion, speech, press and assembly

Answer 4 – 10 1 st Amendment

Question Right to bear arms

Answer 4 – 20 2 nd Amendment

Question Prohibits unreasonable search and seizure

Answer 4 – 30 4 th Amendment

Question Right to a trial by jury of peers, cannot be retried for the same offense once acquitted, protects witnesses from incriminating themselves, and prevents individuals from being deprived of due process.

Answer 4 – 40 5 th Amendment

Question Right to a speedy trial with an impartial jury and counsel (lawyer)

Answer 4 – 50 6 th Amendment

Question This amendment abolished slavery

Answer 5 – th Amendment

Question Gave any U.S. citizen over the age of 18 the right to vote

Answer 5 – th Amendment

Question Gave all males the right to vote despite “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

Answer 5 – th Amendment

Question Gave women the right to vote

Answer 5 – th Amendment

Question Granted citizenship to all “persons born or naturalized in the United States.”

Answer 5 – th Amendment