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How many Senators are there in the Senate?
How many Representatives are there in the House of Representatives?
What are these numbers based on?
What are the requirements to become a Senator?
What are the requirements to become a Congressman/woman? (Representative)
Define/Explain the following terms and give at least one example of each:
When the US Supreme Court determines the constitutional validity of a legislative action, this power is called __________ _________________.
What does it mean when the Supreme Court grants a writ of certiorari?
A Supreme Court Justice has decided to step down and retire. How do the branches “check” one another?
Congress passes legislation to establish an 11:00pm curfew for everyone 20 years old and younger. What can the other branches do to "check" this legislative action?
The scenario below describes a government process.
According to the scenario, in what order did the branches of government exercise their power?
"There can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates.''
What constitutional principle is reflected in the statement?
Match the Influential Document with the proper "main idea"
Documents:
Main Ideas
Based on the passage below, what Enlightenment ideas are being reflected? Whose ideas are they? What is the MAIN job of the government?
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed
The passage below was written by Thomas Paine in his 1776 pamphlet, Common Sense.
And as he hath shown himself such an … enemy to liberty, and discovered such a thirst for ... power, is he, or is he not, a proper man to say to these colonies, "You shall make no laws but what I please"? -Source: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
Based on this passage, how is the author’s view reflected in the U.S. political system?
The Senate & the House of Represenatives
100 = 2 for every state
435 = Based on Population
Senator:
Congressman/Representatives
Senate = The Vice-President (or President Pro Tempore when the VP is absent)
House of Representatives = The Speaker (or Speaker of the House)
Enumerated/Delegated/Expressed Powers: the powers specifically named and assigned to the federal government or prohibited to be exercised by the states under the U.S. Constitution, also known as delegated powers
Implied Powers (Elastic Clause/Necessary and Proper Clause): powers not expressly named in a Constitution but that is inferred because it is necessary to the performance of an enumerated power
The President
The Supreme Court
9 Supreme Court Justices
Interpret laws based on the Constitution
Judicial Review
A writ (order) of a higher court to a lower court to send all the documents in a case to it so the higher court can review the lower court's decision = agrees to hear the case!
Legislative = Makes Laws
Executive = Enforces/Executes Laws
Judicial = Interprets/Judges Laws
Two-thirds of BOTH houses of Congress must vote to override a veto.
Legislative > Executive > Legislative > Judicial
Separation of Powers
Magna Carta = Limited Government
Mayflower Compact = Self-Government
English Bill of Rights = Rights of the People
Thomas Paine's Common Sense = Supporting Revolution
John Locke = Natural Rights of the Citizens = Protect the citizens’ rights.
The Rule of Law
The powers of the legislative AND executive branches.
Answers will vary.
Impeachment/Impeaching/Impeach