Unit 3: Simplified

What is the electoral college?

• How we elect Supreme Court Judges

• How we elect the President

• How we elect the Governor

• How we elect Senators

What do we mean when we talk about "checks and balances?"

• dividing power between branches to prevent one branch having too much power

• A rejection of a decision made by a law-making authority

• The Supreme Court’s ability to declare actions and laws unconstitutional

• The idea that no one is above the law

Who is the executive branch of our government?

• The President

• Congress

• The Senate

• The Supreme Court

Who is the judicial branch of our government?

• The President

• The Supreme Court

• Congress

• The Senate

What do we mean when we talk about a "presidential veto?"

• A president's rejection of a law passed by Congress

• Dividing power between various branches so that power does not rest with one single branch

• The Supreme Court’s ability to declare actions and laws unconstitutional

• the government gets its authority from the consent of the governed

Who is the legislative branch?

• The President

• The Supreme Court

• Congress

• Vice President

What were the Federalist Papers?

• 85 articles of pro Constitution propaganda for the New York Newspapers from 1787 to 1788

• The US national government from 1781 to 1789

• the highest law in the US since 1789

• monies citizens have to pay to help the government run

Who were the Anti-Federalists?

• Someone who didn't want the new "Constitution"

• Someone who wanted the new "Constitution"

• The legislative Branch

• The Executive Branch

What is judicial review?

• A legislature with two houses

• When the Supreme Court declares a Congressional law or Executive Action "unconstitutional"

• The idea that no one is above the law

• How we elect the President

Who wrote the Federalist Papers?

• Alexander Hamilton

• John Jay

• James Madison

• Thomas Jefferson