PAPER 2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
● Executive Branch Election. Answer: US reps+2, USPOP/435 STATE
POP/electoral vote per group
● Executive Powers. Answer: 1. Veto legislation (can be overrided by
2/3 of Congress)
2.Terms (Only 2, 10 whole years 22nd Amend)
3.Select Federal Judges (affirmed by majority of Senate)
4. Executive Orders
5. Appoints Administrative Agency directors (FDA, FTC) with senate
confirm
6. Comander in Chief of Military
7. Cabinet Selection
8. Presidential Pardons (Reprieve:loss of penalty, Pardon: erasing crime
IND or GROUP)
● Selection Plan. Answer: 1. Screening by diverse and impartial judicial
experts
2. Governor appointment
3.Evaluation of candidate & circulation of the eval
, 4. retention based on whether people want to keep or stop
● State Judiciary Branch. Answer: 1. State Supreme Court (9 justices)
2. Court of Appeals (3 div)/at least 3
3. Superior Court (trial Court)
*If there is a state law at hand, final authority is State Supreme
● Plessey v. Furguson. Answer: Man on train, asked to sit in the back bc
of color, allowed segregation
● Brown v. Board. Answer: Students segregated in school system bc of
color, NOT ALLOWED
● Justice Souter Judicial Philosophy. Answer: politics plays huge part in
judge, they are reps of their time and influenced as such
● Justice Breyer Judicial Philosophy. Answer: Living Constitution,
Judicial Activist
● Justice Scalia Judicial Philosophy. Answer: Strict Constructionalist/
Originalist
● Justice Roberts Jurisprudential Philopsohy. Answer: "calling balls and
strikes", only determine if a mistake was made