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37 Cards in this Set
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What is the Supreme Law of the land? |
Consitution |
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What are the 3 key parts to the consitution |
1.Preamble or introduction 2.Articles or how a government is ran. 3. The Admentments, how the consitution is changed |
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What is the first 3 words of the preamble? |
"We the People" |
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What is Article 1? |
The legislative Branch |
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What is Article 2 about? |
Executive Branch |
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What is Article 3 about? |
Judical Branch |
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What s articles 4-6 about? |
Details and procedures about how to amend or ratify the consitution. |
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What is an Admentment? |
"To change or add to" |
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How many amendments are there? |
27 |
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What are the first 10 Admentments called? |
Bill of rights |
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What are the 3 branches of goverment? |
-Legislative -Judical -Executive |
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Who is in the legislative branch? |
The Congress -House of Representatives -Senate |
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What is the job of the legislative branch? |
Makes laws and creates laws. |
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What is the great Compromise? |
Allows one house with proportional representation. One house with equal representation. |
BOTH houses must pass a bill before it is a law. |
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How many house of representatives are there? |
435 |
Some states have more than others due to population |
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How many house of representatives does Washington have? |
10 |
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Who is a house of representatives? |
Adam Smith |
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How many senators per state? |
2 |
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How many total senators are there? |
10 |
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Who is Washington senators? |
Patti Murray Maria Cantwell |
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Who is the "day to day leader?" |
President |
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Who heads the executive branch? |
President |
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Who is the commander in chief of the armed forces? |
President |
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Who heads the Judical branch? |
Supreme Court |
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How are the Nine justices elected? |
Nominated by President and approved by the senate |
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What is the 1st bill of right? |
Free do of speech, religon and press |
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What is the 2nd bill of right |
Right to bear arms |
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What is the 3rd Admentment? |
Soldiers don't have go live in your home, unless there is war. |
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What is the 4th admentment? |
Nobody can search you unless they have a good reason to |
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What is the 5th amendment? |
Right to a fair trial |
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What is the 6th amendment? |
Right to a speedy and short trial. |
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What is the 7th amendment? |
Right to a civil trial with a case that is more than $20 |
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What is the 8th admentment? |
No unreasonable bails or fines or cruel and unusal punishments |
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What is the 9th amendment? |
Americans have rights that are not listed in the consitution |
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What is the 10th admentment? |
Powers not listed in the consitution are given to the people or states. |
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What are checks on congress? |
-The Supreme Court can say that any law is unconstitutional. If so, is voted and no longer exists - the president can veto a law that Congress passes |
Stuff is "unconstitutional" |
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What are Checks by congress? |
- is the president vetoes a law, the Congress override a veto with the two-thirds majority. - the Senate has the right of approval for the president's nominations to the Supreme Court, and other position such as cabinet members - |
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