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The official leader of the Senate is

Vice president

The most important function of Congress is to

Make laws

Before a law is passed it first must be debated and adjusted. This stage is called

A Bill

A president can sign a bill _ a bill or do nothing

Veto

The president is sometimes called the

The chief executive

If the president cannot for any reason carry out his duties the _ becomes president

Vice president

Wich is not a qualification to become president

45 years old

How often do the voters in the united States elect a president

4 years

The president is the _ of all the armed forces

Commander in chief

The _ amendment States a president can only serve two terms

22nd

The president submits a yearly _ to Congress to show how he would like how funds are spent

Budget

The war powers act limits the military power of the

President

The executive branch has 15 departments each leader makes up the president's

Cabinet

The president gives the state of Union message each year. He does this to share the nation the condition of the

Country

The supreme Court is the _ court in the nation

Highest

There are _ associate justices and one chief justice on the supreme court

8

The supreme Court may decide that a law is

Unconstitutional

The President appoints a person to become a Supreme Court justice. His selection must be approved to serve by the

Senate

Supreme Court decisions have at times brought changes to the

Constitution

When the Supreme Court decides a case one judge writes what is the majority __

Opinion

The main character in anthem is

Equality 7-2521

This case failed to overturn Louisiana's separate car act which bared blacks from riding in the same railway car as whitez

Please vs ferguson

This case was brought by a woman who had two children but wanted to legally terminate her third pregnancy

Roe v wade

This case addressed the issue of the legality and rights of who wanted to practice interracial marriage

Loving v virginia

This case reaffirmed the rights of the people to bear arms even if they don't belong to a militia

District of Colombia v heller

This case refers the separate but equal ruling of Plessy vs Ferguson by ending the practice of segregation in schools

Brown v board of education

This case failed to overturn the ruling that the state had a right to enter in a group of individuals if the state being them a security threat to the country

Korematsu v united states

This case mandated that police officers must follow a certain procedure to epsier a criminal suspects Fifth Amendment privileged against self-incrimination

Miranda vs Arizona

This case underscored the limitations of executive privilege by ruling that neither separation of powers or issues of the confidentiality is coz for unlimited executive power

United States vs Nixon

Ernesto Miranda

Gave a confession without understanding his Fifth Amendment rights

Fred kore

Refuse to answer an internment camp

Jane Roe

Her case gave women the right to end a pregnancy

Hammer Plessy

He was not allowed to write in the light rail car

Richard loving

So to make interracial marriage legal

Second Amendment

Was upheld in the Heller case

George Wallace

Stood in front of college campus to block black students

Richard Nixon

Refuse to handover secretly recorded taped conversations