2. Definitions Six Basic Principles Formal Amendments True or False Informal Procedures $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $ 500$500

3. The power of the Courts to decide whether government acts are constitutional. A For $100

4. What is judicial Review? Back to Game

5. The President’s rejection of an act of Congress. A For $200

6. What is a veto? Back to Game

7. Changes in the Constitution that do not involve changes in the written document. A For $300

8. What is an informal amendment? Back to Game

9. The group that formally selects the nation’s President. A For $400

10. What is the Electoral College? Back to Game

11. A pact that the President makes with the head of a foreign state. A For $500

12. What is an executive agreement? Back to Game

13. The principle that holds that government may do only those things that the people have given it power to do. B For $100

14. What is limited Government? Back to Game

15. The principle of popular sovereignty means this. B For $200

16. What is people are the only source of governmental power? Back to Game

17. This constitutional principle was devised as a compromise between a powerful central government and a loose confederation of states. B For $300

18. What is federalism? Back to Game

19. This branch of government can declare an act of Congress to be unconstitutional. B For $400

20. What is the Supreme Court? Back to Game

21. This is required for Congress to overturn a presidential veto. B For $500

22. What is 2/3 vote in both houses? Back to Game

23. An amendment may be formally proposed by these two groups. C For $100

24. What are; Congress or national convention? Back to Game

25. Three rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. C For $200

26. What are: Freedom of Expression and belief. Freedom and security of the person. Fair and equal treatment before the law? Back to Game

27. This method of amending the Constitution has been the most commonly used. C For $300

28. What is Congress proposes, State legislatures ratify? Back to Game

29. It was an example of Congress informally amending the Constitution.. C For $400

30. Who was the Judiciary Act of 1789? Back to Game

31. C For $500 No amendment may deprive a State of its equal representation in the Senate.

32. What is article V of the U.S. Constitution? Back to Game

33. A Supreme Court decision can be amending process that is this. D For $100

34. What is informal? Back to Game

35. The President's Cabinet is an example of informal amendment by this. D For $200

36. What is unwritten custom? Back to Game

37. One of the reasons why Presidents use executive agreements with heads of foreign states instead of the formal treaty process. D For $300

38. What is executive agreements do not require Senate approval? Back to Game

39. The fact that government in the United States is in many ways government through political power is the result of this. D For $400

40. What is a long history of informal amendments? Back to Game

42. 1.passing basic legislation. 2.adding meaning to skeletal portions of the Constitution. 3.simply exercising many of its powers. D For $500

43. What are ways Congress can informally amend the Constitution ? Back to Game

44. The Constitution states that Congress must make changes in the document’s wording because of changes in society. E For $100

45. What is False? Back to Game

46. Formal amendment refers to a change or addition that becomes part of the written Constitution. E For $200

47. What is True? Back to Game

48. Over the years, the Constitution has been changed only 10 times. E For $300

49. What is False? Back to Game

50. The Bill of Rights states that guarantees of basic freedoms for the American people. E For $400

51. What is True? Back to Game

52. Amendments to the Constitution have as much legality as the original Constitution. E For $500

53. What is True? Back to Game