UNIT 3: FEDERALISM REVIEW

There are ___________ Amendments to the Constitution? 

• 24

• 28

• 25

• 27

The first three articles of the Constitution deal with_____________________-

• Freedom of the press ,the media and speech.

• the place of the States in the American Union

• how formal amendments may be added

• three branches of the National Government:

The Constitution establishes a bicameral legislature that is made up of two houses.

• Judicial and Executive

• The White House and the Senate

• The Senate and the House of Representatives

• The White House and the House of Representatives

Article II of the Constitution is known as the _______________ Article, which in only a few words established the presidency.

• Presidential

• Leading Article

• Supreme

• Executive

In Article II of the Constitution,  the President is given the power to command the armed forces, to approve or veto acts of Congress, to declare war, and to make treaties.

• True

• False

Article 3 of the Constitution establishes the 

• Judicial Branch

• Congressional Branch

• FBI

• Executive Branch

The Constitution allows Congress to establish inferior courts. The two distinct types of courts congress has created are 

• Local Courts District Courts

• Court of Appeals and Supreme Court

• Constitutional Courts, and the Special Courts.

• District Court and District Court of Appeals

One of the basic principles of the Constitution is that all the political power resides with the _______________.

• Congress

• President

• Senate

• People

In a presidential system, the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government are all gathered in the hands of a single agency.

• True

• False

Judicial Review is the power to

• review the hiring practices of the Congress

• to to declare unconstitutional a governmental action found to violate some provision in the Constitution.

• review the IRS

• review the actions of the FBI.