Constitution Review
Answer the following with short phrases and turn into Flash Cards.
What is the Highest Law in our nation?
Which branch enforces the law?
Which branch interprets the law?
Which branch makes the law?
Who runs the legislative branch?
Who runs the executive branch?
Who runs the judicial branch?
All impeachment trials are held by what body?
Who can declare war?
Who runs the military?
What is advice and consent?
What body has the power of advice and consent?
How is a senator replaced if he dies in office?
How are electoral votes given to each state?
How many days can a president keep a bill on his desk without anything happening?
What year was the Constitution made?
Who prepares the federal budget?
Who runs the House of Representatives?
What fraction of Senators is elected every 2 years?
Can the House expel its own members?
Can Amendments be repealed?
What is the power of the Supreme Court to declare a law unconstitutional?
What is needed to over ride a veto?
What is double Jeopardy?
How are Amendments proposed?
How are Amendments ratified?
What are post roads?
Name the Houses in the Federal Legislative Branch.
What is the Elastic Clause?
Can Federal Judges be impeached?
How is the number of Representatives chosen for each state?
Can a judge choose any punishment for a crime?
How often is the census taken?
What is the census?
What does the Preamble tell us?
What is needed to propose an Amendment?
What is needed to ratify an Amendment?
What is a Majority?
Can the House fill its own vacancies?
If the Vice President dies, how is he replaced?
Can the Vice President temporally take over for the President?
Where do money bills start?
How many Supreme Court Justices are there?
Do all Senators represent the same number of people?
How long can a bill sit on the presidents desk without anything happening?
What does a conference committee do?
How is the Speaker of the House selected?
Who is the Commander in Chief?
What does the Commander in Chief do?
Answer for the following
Senator only
Representative only
The President
The Congress
The Supreme Court
Forbidden
Can admit new states
Can establish post offices
Regulate trade among states
Pass expost facto laws
25 years old
35 years old
Coin Money
Grant Titles of Nobility
9 years a citizen
Start money bills
Born in the USA
Tax Exports
Who can filibuster?
Veto power
Override a veto
Declare laws unconstitutional
Appoints judges
Pass Naturalization Laws
Serve for life
Limit of two terms
Regulate trade between the states
Name each Amendment
Congress can give itself a raise.
What is the main idea of the 9th Amendment?
What is the main idea of the 10th Amendment?
What is the main idea of the 4th Amendment?
What rights does the 5th Amendment give you?
What Amendments give voting rights?
What are 1st 10 Amendments called?
Put in correct order for a Bill to become a Law
The President signs the bill into law
The bill passes the House
A bill is sent to House Committee
A bill passes the Senate
A Representative writes a bill
Make flashcards based on Checks and Balances for each branch.
IL Constitution
What year was the IL Constitution made?
Who is the Chief Executive of IL?
What is the job of the IL Comptroller?
How many IL Representatives are there?
How many IL Senators are there?
Who is the Commander and Chief of the IL National Guard?
How many SC Justices are in the IL Supreme Court?
US Flag
What do the stars and stripes stand for?
How can you show respect towards the flag?
How can the Flag be displayed?