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Sophiab constitution
constitution test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How long is the term for a senate? | 6 years |
| How long is a term for the house of representatives? | 2 years |
| how long is a term for a supreme court justice? | life |
| How long is a presidents term? | 4 years |
| What is the bill of rights? | first 10 ammendments |
| What is the purpose for the bill of rights? | to state that we have rights that can NEVER be taken away |
| what was the only branch of government in the articles of confederation? | congress |
| how many full terms can the president serve? | 2 |
| Whats the exucative branch? | president/approves laws |
| what is the legislative branch? | congress/creates laws |
| what is the judicial branch | suprem court/interpret laws |
| who is the comander in cheif? | president |
| what does the commander in cheif do ? | keep the country safe and run the millitary |
| what are the past and current capitals of the USA | past - NYC curret - DC |
| Who wrote the federalist papers? | hamilton |
| what is the purpose of the federalist papers? | convince people to vote for the constitution |
| what is a veto? | annual president speech to congress |
| How do you override veto? | senate and the HOR vote it off and you need 2/3 to vote for it |
| what do the 13 stripes on the flap mean? | the 13 colonies that started USA |
| who makes treaties? | president |
| who approves/rejects treaties? | senate |
| what is the state of union address? | The State of the Union Message is a message from the President to Congress, usually given once a year in January or February. |
| What is federalism? | the federal principle or system of government. |
| What was the originl intent of the consitution convent and what actually heppened? | originial - edit articles of confederation happened - new gov made |
| what was the 3/5 compromise? | slaves were counted as 3/5 of a person bc they were treated like property and the southern states wanted to use them for represantation. |
| What was the Connecticut compromise? | 2 houses were made and then lead to the great compromise |
| how did all theese comprimises affect small states and southern states? | small - wanted 3/5 compromise since slaves treated like property south - wanted 1 representer also more represenation |
| Who were federalists ? | people who wanted the constitution to pass |
| Who were ant-federalists? | people who wanted a bill of rights for the constituion to be passed |
| What is the electoral college? | how a president is elected |
| How are electores assigned for the electoral collge? | states will vote then the votes will decided presidne tby how many states want that presdient |
| who has the responsibility of declaring war? | congress |
| how many justices are on the supreme court? | 9 |
| what was the Virginia plan? | where the amount of representars you had depended on your population |
| what was the NJ plan? | each state gets one representative |
| what was the Connecticut plan? | equal representation |
| When did Illinois become a state? | 1818 |
| how many articles are there? | 7 |
| How many amendments are there? | 27 |
| What is a republic? | a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch. |
| How are senatores appointed? | president |
| How are Representatives appointed? | by gov |
| What was shays rebellion? | the gov was giving people continentals which was money worth nothing to them and then they were told to pay debt but they weren't worth anything so they couldn't pay debt so he rebelled |
| What was the affect of shays rebellion? | a stronger gov was made |
| When does the president take office? | Jan 20 or the 21 if its a sunday |
| Who wrote most of the Constitution? | James Madison |
| How is an amendment passed? | 2/3 by house and congress 3/4 the sate legislators |
| What is the qualification to be a president? | - nuturally born in the US - 35 - resdietn of the US for 14 + years |
| What are the qualifications to be a house of representative member? | - 25 years old - 7 year citizen - inhabit at the state they represent |
| What are the qualifications to be a senate? | - 30 years old - 9 year citizen - resident of the state they represent |
| What is the state of union address? | a message by the president to a joint session of US congresss near the begining of the year on a current condition of the nation. |
| What is the 1st amendment? | freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petetion |
| What is the 2nd amendment? | right to bear arms |
| What is the 3rd amendment? | no quartering of soldiers |
| What is the 4th ammendment? | no unreasonable searches and arrest |
| What is the 5th ammendment? | rights in criminal cases |
| Whats the 6th amendment? | right to fair trial |
| What is the 7th amenment? | right in civil cases |
| What is the 8th amendment? | rights for bails, fines, punishment |
| What is the 9th amenment? | rights retained by people |
| What is the 10th amendment? | states have rights |
| What is the 25th amendment? | process of removing a vice president of president in event of death, removal, resignation and incapitation |
| What is the 13th ammendment? | abolished slavery |
| what is federalism? | a government in which power is shared among the states |
| What was the original intent for the constitutional convention and what happened. | To edit the articles of confederation was the goal but they made a new government |
| what is preamble? | the intro to the decleration and constitution |
| What does the preamble say? | its states the purpose of the constitution. |
| What is a census? whats its purpose? | population count decides if a state needs more or less representatives |
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