How many senators are there from each state?

What is the least number of representatives a state may have?

What term in the Constitution means that a prisoner cannot be detained without a trial?

What body has the power to raise, borrow, and coin money?

Has two houses

Court system of the nation

Who creates laws for all 50 states?

What fraction of the Senate is elected very 2 years?

Where is the capital of the United States located?

Makes the country's laws

Interprets the lasw and administers justice

Must live in the state he or she represents

Serve six year term

Meets in the Capitol Building

Elected every two years

Has vice president as presiding officer

Has 435 members

Approves or rejects treaties

Passes bills they hope will become laws

Has 100 members

Members are appointed by the Supreme Court

Senates can make treaties with foreign countries.

Both state and federal governments have the power to establish court systems.

What branch is the president head of?

Each state must treat the citizens of other states the same way it treats its own citizens.

What fraction of the Senate is elected every two years?

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives are elected by the people of the entire state.

How many times may a US Senator be reelected?

The House of Representatives does not get involved in impeachment cases.

A law that makes an act illegal after the act has been committed is known as

Receives a salary of $174,000

Federal officers may hold titles of nobility.

Under certain conditions, may select the President of the United States.

Providing Congress is still in session, a bill becomes a law if the president doesn't act on it within how many days?

Congress cannot tax goods being exported from a state for any reason.

The responsibility of coining and printing of money belong to

Who is the Vice President of the United States?

What vote really elects the President of the United States?

Who has veto power?

How many amendments have been made to the United States Constitution?

How many branches of government are there?

Which amendment deals with the voting rights of 18 year olds?

What amendment limits the president's term?

Which of these is NOT a First Amendment freedom?

Which of the following is NOT an unalienable right of the Declaration of Independence?

What plan, submitted by James Madison, proposed two houses of Congress based on population?

The Articles of Confederation could be considered our first Constitution.

The Bill of Rights does not give a person the right to criticize a government official.

In what year was the last amendment to the Constitution adopted?

This allows for laws to be made for subjects that did not even exist in 1787.

Who said, "Give me liberty or give me death?"

Who was the first president of the United States?

The Preamble.....

Who was the President of the Constitutional Convention?

The original Constitution outlawed slavery.

Why was the Boston Tea Party held?

How many states needed to ratify the Constitution before it went into effect?

Only a natural born citizen may become the president of the U.S.

How many women have been President of the United States?

How many terms may the president serve?

What day does the president-elect assume the duties of office?

If the president should die, who would become president?

The president picks his successor after his term is over.

How many Cabinet positions are there?

The president has the power to call both houses of Congress into a special session if needed.

Which is NOT a requirement to be president of the United States?

What year will the next presidential election be held?

Who has the power to veto a bill?

Who is the chief legal officer?

What cabinet member is responsible for Social Security?

What cabinet officer is responsible for carrying out a war?

What cabinet position is responsible for settling a strike?

What cabinet position is responsible for foreign affairs?

Which cabinet position is responsible for the Secret Service

What cabinet position is responsible for the Farm Program?

One purpose of the Census is to decide how many U.S. representatives each state receives.

Who appoints Supreme Court judges?

What important case established the precedent for judicial review in 1803?

How many judges serve on the Supreme Court (when there are no vaccancies)?

The First Amendment allows for the freedom of religion.

What do the stars on the U.S. flag represent?

How many terms may the president serve?

The executive branch has no checks over the judicial branch.

In a procession, the flag should always be in the rear.

What is a budget?

Who prepares the annual budget and then presents it to Congress in January of each year?

What do the stripes on the flag stand for?

What day is the big Constitution Test?

The president's official in charge of the natural resources of the nation is the ...

What do the stars on the U.S. flag represent?

How many branches of government are there?

What is the minimum age for the president?

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

What vote really elects the President of the United States?

The Declaration of Independence was written before the Constitution.

Sharing of power by the federal government and the state government is called

The president can call both houses of Congress into a special session.

If a president does not act on a bill within 10 days it will become a law if Congress is in session.

What vote is necessary for Congress to pass a law over the president's veto?

The first 10 amendments are called...

Where is the capital of the United States?

Which is NOT one of the 13 original colonies?

To provide for prayer in public schools, the Constitution must be amended.