Studyguide for the 7th grade constitution test
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| How many branches is our government divded into? | show 🗑
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| show | Executive, Legislative, Judicial
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| show | Article I
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| What is the main function of the Legislative Branch? | show 🗑
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| show | Borrow money, declare war, and coin money.
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| How is membership in the House of Representatives determined? | show 🗑
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| Every state gets at least how many representatives in the House? | show 🗑
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| show | 10
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| How are electoral votes figured out? | show 🗑
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| show | 19
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| How many Electoral College votes does Illinois have? | show 🗑
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| Any bills dealing with taxes must be proposed by which half of Congress? | show 🗑
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| What does the Elastic Clause do? | show 🗑
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| show | House of Representatives
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| show | Senate
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| The presiding official for impeachments is the ______________ | show 🗑
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| What is the most common way to ratify amendments? | show 🗑
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| show | ex post facto
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| show | Philadelphia
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| In what year was the Constitution held? | show 🗑
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| show | 1788
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| In what year was the Bill of Rights added? | show 🗑
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| show | 1776
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| To form a more ____________ _____________ | show 🗑
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| show | 2
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| show | 435
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| In the House of Representatives, members are elected by _______. | show 🗑
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| In the House of Representatives, the _____ is the presiding officer. | show 🗑
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| List the qualifications for a member of the House. | show 🗑
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| List the qualifications for a member of the Senate. | show 🗑
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| In the Senate, members serve a _____ year term. | show 🗑
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| In the Senate, there are __________ members | show 🗑
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| In the Senate, members were originally elected by ______________ | show 🗑
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| show | Direct election of Senators
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| The presiding officer of the Senate is______________ | show 🗑
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| What type of vote does it take for a bill to pass through the House or Senate? | show 🗑
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| What type of vote does it take in each the House and Senate to override a President's veto? | show 🗑
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| Who presides over an impeachment trial if the President is impeached? | show 🗑
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| show | Aritlce II
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| What is the main function of the Executive Branch? | show 🗑
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| show | Make treaties Appoint ambassadors and Justices Grant Pardons
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| show | 4
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| What are the requirements for President and Vice President? | show 🗑
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| The _________ has the power to make treaties. | show 🗑
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| Who approves the treaties? | show 🗑
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| The President has the power to pocket veto bills. How many days must he wait to do this? | show 🗑
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| show | Cabinet
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| What is the line of succession to the Presidency? | show 🗑
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| What article of the Constitution establishes the Judicial Branch? | show 🗑
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| What is the main function of the Judicial Branch? | show 🗑
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| How long does a Supreme Court Justice serve? | show 🗑
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| show | President
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| show | majority
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| show | The Supreme Court
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| show | Declare laws or actions unconstitutional.
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| show | There are no written requirements
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| show | 9
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| show | Barack Obama
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| Who is our Vice President? | show 🗑
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| show | Nancy Pelosi
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| Who is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? | show 🗑
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| show | Dick Durbin Roland Burris
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| Name the US Representative from the 18th Congressional District of Illinois | show 🗑
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| show | Thomas Jefferson
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| Before the Constitution, what document did we use to establish our government? | show 🗑
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| show | To change the Articles (Revise)
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| What did they end up doing at this convention? | show 🗑
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| How many states had to ratify the Constitution after it was written? | show 🗑
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| show | Bill of Rights
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| show | First 10 amendments
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| show | Religion Speech Assembly Petition Press
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| show | Ban slavery
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| The ______ Amendment is the only one to ever be repealed | show 🗑
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| show | States that the President takes office on January 20.
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| In the US you must be at least ________ to legally vote. | show 🗑
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| The Preamble contains the ________ of the constitution | show 🗑
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| show | The Constitution is the supreme law of the land.
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| States must: | show 🗑
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| How many total number of electoral votes are there? | show 🗑
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| show | 7
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| How many amendments have there been to the United States Constitution? | show 🗑
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| What do the stars of the flag represent? | show 🗑
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| show | The House picks the President The Senate picks the Vice President Each state receives one vote.
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| Establish _______________ | show 🗑
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| Ensure _________ _________________ | show 🗑
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| show | common defense
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| show | general welfare
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| show | blessings of liberty
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| According to this principle of the constitution the people hold the final ruling power. | show 🗑
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| show | limited governemnt
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| According to this principle of the constitution there is a division of power between the state and federal government. | show 🗑
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| show | seperation of powers
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| According to this principle of the constitution each branch should have some way to check or control the other two branches. | show 🗑
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| show | The Virginia Plan
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| show | The New Jersey Plan
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| What amendment limits the president to two terms in office? | show 🗑
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