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3. Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin.

4. Vocabulary Branches of Government PowersNumbersAmendments 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points Compromise

5. To approve or make official.

6. What is Ratify?

7. Those who believed in a strong central government.

8. Who are the Federalists?

9. There are seven sections in the Constitution, otherwise known as “these”.

10. What are Articles?

11. “Suffrage” refers to the right to take “this” political action.

12. What is vote?

13. Identify and define the term depicted in the picture.

14. What are checks and balances? What is the system that guarantees no branch of government will become too powerful.

15. The branch of government responsible for interpreting the law.

16. What is the Judicial Branch?

17. “This” part of the legislative branch of government most directly represents the people.

18. What is the House of Representatives?

19. The highest court in the judicial branch of government and the number of justices that serve on its bench.

20. What is the Supreme Court and 9 justices?

21. With regard to passing new legislation, identify and explain one example of how the legislative branch can exercise its power to “check” the executive branch.

22. What is a Congressional Override? Congress can override a presidential veto with a 2/3 vote of both houses.

23. “This” branch of governments acts as an enforcer of the laws.

24. What is the Executive Branch?

25. The Great Compromise consisted of a combination of “these” two plans.

26. What are the New Jersey and Virginia Plans?

27. At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, the framers originally intended to do “this.”

28. What is amend the Articles of Confederation?

29. Those who wrote the Articles of Confederation intended for the central government to be “this” for “this” reason.?

30. What is weak for fear of an abusive or tyrannical one branch government or single leader.

31. The Founders agreed with John Locke that life, liberty, and property were originally intended as “these.”

32. What are natural rights?

33. Identify the event that occurred on each of the following dates. 1689 1791

34. What is: 1689-English Bill of Rights 1791-American Bill of Rights

35. Anti-Federalists favored a weak “this” and strong “these.”

36. What is a weak central government and strong state governments?

37. The power to appoint Supreme Court Justices rests with “this person,” but “this” part of Congress must approve the appointment.

38. Who is the president and what is the senate?

39. “This” refers to the power of the Supreme Court to determine whether or not a law is Constitutional.

40. What is judicial review?

41. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court presides if “this person” is on trial, and only after the House of Representatives has exercised its power of “this.”

42. What is the president and the power of impeachment.

43. The Constitution is known as “this” lofty law of the land.

44. What is the supreme law of the land?

45. According to “this” numerical compromise, a slave could only be counted as a fraction of a person.

46. What is the 3/5 Compromise?

47. The total number of people currently serving in Congress.

48. What is 535?

49. “This” college consists of 537 votes, not to be mistaken for the university type.

50. What is the electoral college.

51. A president can only serve “this” many terms, each of which lasts “this” many years.

52. What is 2 terms of 4 years?

53. The Articles of Confederation lasted for “this” many years between “these” years.

54. What is 10 years between 1777 and 1787.

55. The five freedoms granted by the First Amendment.

56. What are the rights to freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of worship/religion, the right to assemble peaceably, and the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances?

57. “This” amendment guaranteed suffrage for women.

58. What is the 19 th Amendment?

59. The 13 th Amendment abolished “this”.

60. What is slavery or involuntary servitude?

61. The 14 th Amendment guarantees equal “this.”

62. What is equal protection of the law?

63. Explain one method of proposing an amendment to the Constitution.

64. What is a 2/3 vote of Congress or a convention of 2/3 of the states?

65. Make your wager

66. Final Answer

67. Final Question