FCLE court cases given by the MDC bootcamp / Key
Quizzes with 100% Correct Answers.
Terms in this set (213)
What is the supreme law of the Constitution 1787
the land?
What does the -sets up the government
Constitution do? -defines the government
-protects basic rights of Americans
The idea of selfgovernment We the People
is in the first three words
of the Constitution. What
are these words?
What is an amendment? -a change (to the Constitution)
-an addition (to the Constitution)
What do we call the first the Bill of Rights (ratified 1791)
ten amendments to the
Constitution?
-speech
What is one right or -religion
freedom from the First -assembly
Amendment? -press
-petition the government
,How many amendments twenty-seven
does the Constitution
have?
What did the Declaration of -announced our independence (from Great Britain)
Independence (1776) do? -declared our independence (from Great Britain)
-said that the United States is free (from Great Britain)
What are two rights in the -life
Declaration of -liberty
Independence? -pursuit of happiness
What is freedom of religion? You can practice any religion, or not practice a religion.
What is the economic capitalist economy, market economy, mixed economy
system in the United
States?
What is the "rule of law"? -Everyone must follow the law.
-Leaders must obey the law.
-Government must obey the law.
-No one is above the law.
Name one branch or part of -Congress
the government. -legislative
-President
-executive
-the courts
-judicial
What stops one branch of -checks and balances
government from becoming -separation of powers
too powerful?
+ greek philosophy
Who is in charge of the the President
executive branch?
,Who makes federal laws? -Congress
-Senate and House (of Representatives) -(U.S. or
national) legislature
+ The current speaker of the house is Mike Johnson
* The current senators are Marco Rubio and Rick Scott
What are the two parts of the Senate and House of Representatives
U.S. Congress?
+ The current speaker of the house is Mike Johnson
How many U.S. Senators are One hundred (100), two per state
there?
* The current senators are Marco Rubio and Rick Scott
We elect a U.S. Senator for six
how many years?
* The current senators are Marco Rubio and Rick Scott
Who is one of your state's Marco Rubio and Rick Scott
U.S. Senators now?
The House of 435
Representatives has how
many voting members? + The current speaker is Mike Johnson
We elect a U.S. two
Representative for how many
years?
Name your U.S. Mario Diaz Balart or Byron Donalds
Representative. (district 5)
Who does a U.S. Senator all people of the state
represent?
* The current senators are Marco Rubio and Rick Scott
-(because of) the state's population
Why do some states have
more Representatives than
other states?
, We elect a President for how four
many years?
In what month do we vote November
for President?
What is the name of the Joe Biden
President of the United
States now?
What is the name of the Kamala Harris
Vice President of the United
States now?
If the President can no longer Vice President
serve, who becomes
President?
If both the President and the the Speaker of the House
Vice President can no longer
serve, who becomes
President?
Who is the Commander in the President
Chief of the military?
Who signs bills to become the President
laws?
Who vetoes bills? the President
What does the President's advises the President
Cabinet do?