TCI Vocabulary Quiz - An Enduring Plan of Government

What is the first part of the Constitution that states the purposes of the new plan of government?

• Congress

• Preamble

• Chief Executive

• Impeach

What is the legislative branch of the federal government called?

• Federal Judiciary

• Chief Executive

• Congress

• Impeach

What is the term used to charge a government official with an offense committed while in office?

• Elastic Clause

• Federal Judiciary

• Impeach

• Chief Executive

What is the constitutional clause that gives Congress authority to 'make all laws which shall be necessary and proper' to carry out its powers?

• Impeach

• Elastic Clause

• Federal Judiciary

• Chief Executive

What is the federal court system, consisting of the Supreme Court and lower federal courts?

• Chief Executive

• Congress

• Federal Judiciary

• Impeach

What best describes an Independent Judiciary?

• A judiciary that is influenced by political parties.
• A separate and impartial judiciary that is free from external influence or control.
• A judiciary that is controlled by the government.
• A judiciary that is subject to public opinion.

Who is the chief executive?

• The senate majority leader

• The speaker of the house of representative

• The chief justice of the supreme court

• The President

What is a delegated power?

• a power that the Constitution does

  not delegate to Congress or deny to

  the states and is therefore reserved

  to the states or the people

• a power that the Constitution

  delegates, or grants, to Congress

  and therefore to the national

  government

• the power of the Supreme Court to review an action of the legislative or executive branch and declare it unconstitutional

• a system in which judges cannot be removed or have their salaries reduced for making unpopular decisions

federal judiciary

• group of states responsible for interpreting and applying the law at the federal level
• division of the government responsible for interpreting and applying the law at only at the state level

• branch of the government responsible for creating and enforcing laws at the federal level
• the federal court system, consisting of the Supreme Court and lower federal courts