Constitution test 1

Question 1

What are two “chambers” or parts of the Legislative Branch?

Answer 1

1. The house of representatives
2. The senate

Question 2

What are the members of the House of Representatives called?

Answer 2

Representatives

Question 3

How long do representatives serve?

Answer 3

2 years

Question 4

And how many members does each state get? (Note: this part of the Constitution was changed later.)

Answer 4

One member for every thirty thousand

Question 5

How are the representatives chosen?

Answer 5

By the people

Question 6

Who “leads” or presides over the House of Representatives?

Answer 6

The speaker of the house

Question 7

What are members of the senate called?

Answer 7

Senators

Question 8

How long to senators serve?

Answer 8

Six years

Question 9

How many senators does each state have?

Answer 9

Two per state

Question 10

How (were) they chosen? (Note: this part of the Constitution was changed later.)

Answer 10

By the legislature

Question 11

What role does the Vice President play in the Senate?

Answer 11

If the senate is divided the vice president (president the senate) will have the final vote.

Question 12

What does impeachment mean?

Answer 12

To try someone such as the president for crimes, you are impeached the second a trial is announced regardless of if you win

Question 13

Who can be impeached?

Answer 13

President, vice president, all federal offices

Question 14

What is the specific process for impeachment? Be detailed.

Answer 14

The house of representatives has the sole power to call for impeachment
The senate has the sole power to try all impeachments
If the president is being tried the chief justice must preside
No person can be convicted without the agreement of two thirds of the people present

Question 15

1) So, how are laws made in Congress? BE SPECIFIC especially about Bills and how they become laws.

Answer 15

All bill having to due with budget must be from the house of representatives but the senate can propose or amend other bills not having to do with budget
If a bill is passed by the senate and house of representatives it is sent to the president
If the president approves it is made law
If they do not it is sent back to the house it originated from and the president’s reasons for sending it back are documented
That house will then look over the reasons and if two third of the house vote to pass the bill it will be sent to the other house and if two thirds of that house vote to pass it it will be made into law

Question 16

What’s are the legislature powers?

Answer 16

Passes laws
Makes taxes
Declares war
Prints/coins money
Appropriates money
Can impeach federal officials

Question 17

Who is eligible to be the President?

Answer 17

A president must have been born in the United States (or been a citizen of the United States when the constitution was adopted
A president must be 14 years a resident of the United States
A president must be 35 years old or older

Question 18

What is the judicial branch?

Answer 18

The Judicial branch is the branch of the government the deal directly with if something is constitutional

Question 19

How can the Constitution be “amended” (formally changed?) Be very specific of two different routes for this process.

Answer 19

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution
The Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments

Question 20

Who is in the judicial branch?

Answer 20

The Supreme Court (9 justices) (and lower federal courts)

Question 21

What are the executive’s powers

Answer 21

Enforces laws
Appoints officials (including Supreme Court
Justices, ambassadors)
Can propose new laws to Congress
Signs laws (or vetoes them)
Commander in Chief of armed forces
Makes treaties

Question 22

What is the judicial’s powers?

Answer 22

Interprets and explains laws
Can declare acts by President or Congress
“unconstitutional*

Question 23

What are the executives checks on the legislature

Answer 23

Can veto laws
Negotiates foreign treaties
Can propose and campaign for laws
Can call special sessions of Congress (force them to meet)
“Appoints” people to national departments al agencies
Commander in Chief, so can command troops/military

Question 24

What are the executives checks on the judiciary?

Answer 24

Appoints federal judges
Can grant pardons to people convicted of federal crime

Question 25

What are the legislatures checks on the executive

Answer 25

Can override veto (if 2/3’s of both houses agree)
Must approve executive’s “appointments”
Must ratify treaties
Declares war
Appropriates (decides when/what to spend)
money
Can impeach and remove President

Question 26

What are the legislatures checks on the judicial

Answer 26

Can impeach and remove judges
Can propose constitutional amendments to overrule judges’ declaration of a law unconstitutional.
Must approve appointments of judges

Question 27

What are the judicial’s checks on the executive

Answer 27

Can declare executive actions “unconstitutional ”

Question 28

What are the judicial’s checks on congress?