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The Constitution & the American Political System Unit Test Review. The Constitution & the American Political System Unit Test Review. Choose that Branch Responsible for interpreting the laws Legislative Executive Judicial. The Constitution & the American Political System Unit Test Review.
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The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Choose that Branch • Responsible for interpreting the laws • Legislative • Executive • Judicial
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Choose that Branch • Can call special sessions of Congress • Legislative • Executive • Judicial
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Choose that Branch • Can refuse to approve federal appointments • Legislative • Executive • Judicial
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Choose that Branch • May establish the number of lower courts • Legislative • Executive • Judicial
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Choose that Branch • Has the power of impeachment • Legislative • Executive • Judicial
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Choose that Branch • May declare laws unconstitutional • Legislative • Executive • Judicial
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Choose that Branch • May grant pardons or reprieves to federal offenders • Legislative • Executive • Judicial
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Choose that Branch • May declare the refusal to enforce laws unconstitutional • Legislative • Executive • Judicial
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Choose that Branch • May veto bills it doesn’t agree with • Legislative • Executive • Judicial
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Choose that Branch • Charged with enforcing the laws • Legislative • Executive • Judicial
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Choose that Branch • May propose amendments as a check on another branch • Legislative • Executive • Judicial
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Choose that Branch • Controls appointments to the Cabinet • Legislative • Executive • Judicial
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Choose that Branch • Responsible for making the laws • Legislative • Executive • Judicial
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Choose that Branch • The branch that is furthest removed from the people • Legislative • Executive • Judicial
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Order, Freedom or Equality • Amendment 16 – The power to collect income taxes based on how much you earn • Order • Freedom • Equality
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Order, Freedom or Equality • Amendment 17 – The popular election of U.S. Senators • Order • Freedom • Equality
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Order, Freedom or Equality • Article 3 – Set up the Judicial Branch • Order • Freedom • Equality
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Order, Freedom or Equality • Amendment 4 – The protection from unreasonable searches and seizures • Order • Freedom • Equality
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Order, Freedom or Equality • Article 5 – How to amend the Constitution • Order • Freedom • Equality
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Order, Freedom or Equality • Amendment 6 – The right to confront witnesses against you • Order • Freedom • Equality
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Order, Freedom or Equality • Amendment 13 – The prohibition of slavery • Order • Freedom • Equality
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Order, Freedom or Equality • Amendment 25 – The succession of the president and vice-president • Order • Freedom • Equality
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Order, Freedom or Equality • Amendment 26 – Set the voting age to 18 • Order • Freedom • Equality
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Terms • People who prefer order over equality • Conservatives • Libertarians • Liberals
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Terms • The right to vote • democracy • suffrage • republicanism
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Terms • To be forced to testify in a court of law • Self-incrimination • Double jeopardy • Impeachment
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Terms • To have your day in court • Jurisprudence • Due process • Suffrage
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Terms • Powers that are specifically written in the Constitution • Enumerated • Elastic • Implied
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Terms • Prefer freedom to order or equality • Conservatives • Libertarians • Liberals
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Terms • Power is exercised by elected representatives • Federalism • Separation of Powers • Republicanism
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Terms • Government that can only do what the people allow it to do • Limited government • Popular government • Republican government
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Terms • The more you make the more you pay • Elastic taxation • Progressive taxation • Equalized taxation
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Terms • Legislation that hasn’t been signed by the President of the United States • Amendment • Bill • Law
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Terms • Gives Congress powers to make laws that are “necessary and proper” to carry out its other powers • Elastic clause • Supremacy clause • Implied clause
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Terms • Prefer equality to order and freedom • Conservatives • Libertarians • Liberals
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Terms • Committee where the House and Senate iron out differences between two versions of legislation • Joint committee • Resolution committee • Conference committee
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Terms • Amendment that protects people from testifying against themselves in court • Fourth • Fifth • Sixth
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Terms • Makes the Constitution the law of the land • Enumerated clause • Supremacy clause • Elastic clause
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Terms • Prohibits excessive bail, fines and cruel and unusual punishment • Fourth • Sixth • Eighth
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Terms • Says citizens are subject to at least two sets of laws • Judicial review • Republicanism • Federalism
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Line-Item Veto • Senator Robert Byrd was against the Line-Item Veto • True • False
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Line-Item Veto • Pork-barrel legislation is related mostly to farming • True • False
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Line-Item Veto • The Line-Item Veto was ruled constitutional by the Supreme Court • True • False
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Line-Item Veto • The Line-Item Veto is a relatively new idea (within the last 20 years) • True • False
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Line-Item Veto • The goal of the Line-Item Veto is to make bills shorter and easier to read • True • False
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Is it Constitutional? • Chief Justice Roberts decides he will stay on the court until he dies • Constitutional • Unconstitutional
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Is it Constitutional? • California makes a fair trade treaty with Mexico • Constitutional • Unconstitutional
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Is it Constitutional? • President Bush runs for a third term to finish the war in Iraq • Constitutional • Unconstitutional
The Constitution & the American Political SystemUnit Test Review Is it Constitutional? • A young woman on trial for possession of narcotics is forced to testify in court by the judge • Constitutional • Unconstitutional