Quizizz Checks and Balances Activity

Congress creates and the President signs a law that allows the police and military to search people’s homes without a warrant. The police and military can enter homes at will and search for illegal materials (this action violates the 4th Amendment to the Constitution). What can the other branch do? Name that branch.

• The Legislative Branch can use its power of impeachment to declare the law unconstitutional

• The Executie Branch can send military police to the congress and take control of the law making system.

• The Judicial Branch can use its power of judicial review to declare the law unconstitutional.

• The Executive Branch can veto the law signed by the president.

Congress has just passed a bill legalizing all harmful drugs. The president feels this would have a horrible effect on the American people. What can he do?

• He can use his power of judicial review to declare the law unconstitutional.

• He can veto the law and send it back to congress where they would need to pass it with a two-thirds vote in each Chamber (House & Senate).

• He can filibuster or block the final approval of the bill by extending the debate on its possible effects.

• He can appoint a judge that can then sentence the congress members to life sentences to prison.

The President vetoes a law that will give equal pay to women. What can congress do to make sure this law is passed despite the presidents veto?

• They can filibuster the veto. The most common form occurs when one or more senators attempt to delay or block a veto on a law by extending debate on the measure.

• Congress can pass a bill over the president's objections by passing the bill with a two-thirds vote in each Chamber (House/senate).

• They can send the armed forces into the Presidents Oval Office and fore him to reconsider his veto

• They can declare his veto unconstitutional through judicial review.

It was discovered that a sitting Supreme Court Justice has been accepting bribes from large corporations in order to rule in their favor. What action can be taken?

• Legislative branch can impeach the judge and then through a trial remove him from the court.

• Executive branch can impeach the judge and then through a trial remove him from the court.

• Judicial branch can declare the judge unconstitutional and remove him from the court.

• Nothing can be done the judge sits on the Supreme Court so his term is for life.

A Supreme Court Justice has died and must be replaced. The president has appointed a new person but it has been determined that this person is close family friend of the president and has a criminal record. What can be done to stop this person from becoming a Supreme Court Justice

• The Judicial Branch's Supreme Court can use judicial review to declare the appointment unconstitutional.

• The Legislative Branch (Congress) can reject the appointment of the justice.

• The Executive Branch's vice president can declare the president unfit for duty making stopping his appointment of the justice.

• The states can refuse to acknowledge the appointment of the justice and any decisions he is a part of.

The President creates a treaty with Russia and in the treaty it is stated that the United states must give all governing power to Russia. What can be done to stop save our government?

• Ohio and other states can reject the treaty

• The Supreme Court can reject the treaty

• The Vice President can reject the treaty

• The Congress can reject the treaty.

A suspected domestic terrorist with ties to the invasion of the Capital building is seeking a vacant seat on the supreme court and members of Congress are ready to approve him. What can be done to stop him?

• The President can refuse to appoint him.

• The Supreme Court Justices can deny him membership

• The Military can invade the Congress and stop the vote to approve him

• Nothing can be done if Congress want him approved

Supreme Court ruled in the 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford decision that enslaved African Americans were not citizens. In 1866 Congress proposed the Fourteenth Amendment. The amendment was meant to grant full citizenship to formerly enslaved African Americans. When ratified by the states in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment had the effect of overruling the Dred Scott decision. This is an example of a check of the Judicial branch by the ...

• Executive Branch

• Judicial Branch

• Legislative Branch

• Presidential Branch

Donald Trump made history becoming the first President to ever to be impeached twice. The charge in the single article of impeachment is incitement of insurrection. What is this an example of?

• Congress (Legislative Branch) checking the Presidential powers of the Executive Branch.

• Supreme Court (Judicial Branch) checking the Presidential powers of the Executive Branch.

• The national media checking the Presidential powers of the Executive Branch

• The states checking the Presidential powers of the Executive Branch

Congress (Legislative Branch) can check the Executive Branch by... (select all that apply)

• Can override a veto

• Can reject appointments

• Can impeach the president

• Can refuse to approve treaties

• Can declare an executive action unconstitutional