1. CIVICS Federalism, Legislative and Executive Branches
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CIVICS
Federalism, Legislative and Executive Branches

2. Name two principles of the Constitution:
Popular sovereignty
Limited government (grants and denials)
Federalism
Bicameralism
Separation of powers
Checks and balances
Constitutionalism

3. Federalist #51 deals mostly with:
Checks and balances
and
Separated powers

4. Jefferson believed just governments get their power from:
The consent of the governed
(The vote of the people)

5. Federalism reflects the framers concern with
Majority rule and the public good
Minority rights and individual liberties

6. Classical republicans
Those who believe the group more than the individual is the fundamental unit of political concern?
Classical republicans

7. Who was more concerned with individual rights than majorities?
Classical liberals

8. Federalist #10 is primarily concerned with:
Factions (parties and special interests)

9. In Fed. 10, Madison warns of controlling the cause of faction, to cure the effects instead by establishing what kind of government?
Republican form of govt.
Representative democracy

10. What kind of power is exercised by Congress when it passes tax laws, punishes counterfeiters and drafts men to fight a war?
Enumerated powers
Expressed powers
Delegated powers

11. How can the executive branch check Congress’s law-making powers?
Veto bills

12. How can Congress check the President’s veto power?
Vote to override the veto with a 2/3 vote in both houses of Congress

13. How can the legislative branch check the executive branch’s power to appoint federal judges?
Senate confirmation of the appointees

14. How does Congress check the President’s power of Commander in Chief?
Declare war
Control the purse (spending)

15. Classical liberal concerns focused on …
Individual rights

16. How does Federalist #78 claim the Court checks the President’s appointment and Congress’s confirmation powers?
Life tenure

17. Because of the fear of a powerful army taking over the government, the Framers put a civilian in charge of the military. Who is that?
The President (Commander in Chief)

18. What principle of the Constitution does “a government of rule, not of rulers” reflect?
Constitutionalism

19. What principle of the Constitution do grants of power and denails of power reflect?
Limited Government

20. What principle of the Constitution is reflected in democracy (govt of the people for the people by the people)?
Popular sovereignty

21. What kind of powers does the necessary and proper clause (elastic clause) provide?
Implied powers

22. Give one example of Jefferson’s self-evident truths
All men are created equal
People have God-given unalienable rights
Including Life, Liberty and pursuit of Happiness

23. Which principle of the Constitution allows states to pass laws and set up a state court system?
Federalism

24. Which of the following were meant to reduce the likelihood of federal tyranny?
Limited govt
Separated power
Checks and balances
Bill of rights
Federalism
All the above

25. Where do bills go for analysis, debate and amendments before being sent to the floor for a vote?
Committee
Relevant standing committee
Permanent committee

26. Where is compromise language between House and Senate versions of a bill worked out?
Conference Committee

27. Where are filibusters conducted?
Senate floor

28. Where are riders added?
Senate
Senate committee
Senate floor

29. Where do all revenue (appropriations) bills begin?
House of Representatives

30. How can a filibuster be ended?
Vote for cloture

31. Where do most bills die?
In committee

32. Who is the leader of the House?
Speaker

33. Who is the true leader of the Senate?
Majority leader

34. Who is the President of the Senate?
The Vice President

35. What significant role does the VP play as President of the Senate?
Tie-breaking vote

36. Who presides over the Senate when the VP is not there?
President Pro Tempore

37. Who persuades party members to vote as the leadership desires and keeps a nose count of votes on important upcoming legislation?
Whip

38. Who impeaches the president for “high crimes and misdemeanors”?
The House of Representatives

39. Who convicts the President of the “high crimes and misdemeanors” he has been accused of committing?
Senate (presided over by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court)

40. Why is the Senate more prestigious than the House?
Longer terms (6 years)
Older (30 years old)
Longer debate
Fewer (100)

41. Which of the following is wrong?
Bill introduced to House by member
Sent to committee for public hearing
Passed on floor of House
Sent to Senate
Goes to Senate committee
Passed on Senate floor
Bill becomes law

42. The branch dealt with in Article I of the US Constitution is:
The Legislative branch

43. What branch of government does Article II of the US Constitution deal with?
The executive branch

44. How long does a member of the House serve?
2 years

45. How long does a Senator serve?
6 years

46. How long does a President serve?
4 years

47. How many terms can a president serve?2

48. How many terms can a member of Congress serve?
Unlimited

49. What role is the President playing when he suggests ideas for laws?
Chief legislator

50. What role when he calls Congress back for a special session of Congress to deal with an emergency?
Chief legislator

51. What role when he issues executive orders?
Chief executive

52. Which role when setting foreign policy and negotiating treaties?
Chief diplomat

53. Role giving medals and throwing out first pitch of baseball season and receiving guests at the White House
Chief of State

54. To determine which candidate get California’s 55 Electoral College votes, the candidate must win a __________ vote
Plurality

55. To win the presidency, a candidate has to win the Electoral College with a __________ vote
Majority
270 votes

56. If neither presidential candidate achieves 270 votes, who elects the President?
The House

57. Which is NOT a formal qualification for president?
35 years old
Natural born citizen of the US
Male
14 year residency

58. Which chamber of Congress is closer to the people?
The House

59. Franklin Delano Roosevelt FDR
For which President did Republicans support the passage of the 22nd Amendment to impose a two-term limit on future presidents?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
FDR

60. What kind of primary restricts voting to only party members?
Closed primary

61. When is the presidential election?
November
First Tuesday following the second Monday in Nov.

62. The Framers feared a unitary system of government because they feared too much power would lead to:
Tyranny

63. A federal system shares powers between
Federal govt. and state govt.

64. A confederal (or confederate) system concentrates power in
The states