Government Review
Mr. Z. Miller
Identify the duties of the Executive Branch, who is the top of the Executive Branch in the
Federal Government? Identify the duties of the Judicial Branch and what is the highest court?
Identify the three levels of Government in the USA?
How many US Senators are there? How many per state? What is their Term length? Identify
Ohio’s two current senators:
How many electoral votes are their total in the Electoral College? What does the “winner take
all format” mean in the Electoral College (except Nebraska and Maine)?
How many electoral votes does it take to win the presidency?
Who is the leader of the House of Representatives? Who is third in charge in the US Federal
government if the President and Vice President were to become incapacitated or die?
How many articles are there to the US Constitution? Identify each article and what is
established by each:
How many times has the US Constitution been amended?
What is the most common name for the first ten amendments to the US Constitution?
What is: Common Law, Constitutional Law, Civil Law, Criminal Law, Statute Law, Common Law
and Case Law? Identify each form of law in the US and provide an example.
What is the duty of the Judicial Branch of the Federal Government? How many justices are on
the Supreme Court? How long is their term?
How does a Bill become a law? What is a committee? Who has to vote on a bill and how many
houses must it pass? Whom ultimately signs a Bill into Law?
What is the system of checks and balances? Explain a check that each branch has on one
another. What is the point of the system of checks and balances?
How long is the term for a member of the House of Representatives? How many members in
the House of Representatives? How many Congressional districts or House of Representatives
does the state of Ohio have? How are the districts made? What district do we live in?
Identify the following amendments to the US Constitution and what they protect:
1st Amendment, 2nd Amendment, 4th Amendment, 5th Amendment, Amendments 6-10,
Amendments 13-15, Amendments 18 and 19 and 21, and 26th Amendment
Identify the home states of the two presidential candidates and their running mates.
Identify “swing states” and what is the most important swing state since 1960?
What is a Liberal? What is a Conservative? What is a Democrat? What is a Republican?
What is the impeachment process and who is responsible to carry this out?