Constitution Test-Short answer Flashcards
Powers of legislative branch
Powers: Create and collect taxes, borrow money, regulate trade, set value of money, declare war, establish post offices and regulate mailing system
Roles of legislative branch
House of Reps
Senate
Powers of executive branch
Powers:
POTUS: Design policies, lead government, spokesperson to world, helps decide how U.S. interacts with other countries, in charge of armed forces
VP: President over senate, take over if POTUS is unable to lead, tiebreaker over senate
PC: secretary of state, secretary of education, secretary of defense, secretary of treasury
Roles of executive branch
POTUS
VP: Presidential cabinet: Advisors of president, POTUS chooses
Electoral collage: Elector that votes for president and those votes actually count
Powers of judicial branch
Powers: interpret constitution, declare laws unconstitutionally, declare other branches unconstitutionally
Roles of judicaial branch
9 supreme court justices
Checks on legislative
Checks on congress: president can veto (executive), supreme court can stop congress if congress is not acting in accordance with the constitution (judicial)
Checks on executive
Checks on POTUS: congress can remove POTUS from office ((legislative) supreme court can stop POTUS if unconstitutional (judicial)
Checks on judicial
President appoints (executive) senate confirms (legislative)
Qualifications and details about Judicial branch
no qualifications, 5 parts: Incident, constitutional problem, decision, reason, impact
Qualifications and details about executive branch
POTUS: must be born citizen, live in U.S. for 14 years, must be 35, 4 year term
VP:No specific qualifications
Qualification and details about legislative branch
House of reps: 2 year term, must be 25, citizen for 7 years, live in state they represent.
Senate: 6 year term, must be 30, citizen for 9 years, live in state they represent
Leaders of branches
Executive:President
Judicial: The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Legislative: Speaker of the house
Articles of constitution that talk about each branch
Legislative: 1
Executive: 2
Judicial: 3
Electoral Collage: How does it work
Every elector in a state must vote for the same candidate. The number of electors from each state is based on the number of senators and house reps. In order for a candidate to win he/she must win a majority of the electoral votes. Total electoral votes: 538 (100 senators and 435 HR and 3 D.C. reps)
Popular vote vs. Electoral vote
Popular: People in the state-does not really count
Electoral: Reps from each state-counts
How a bill becomes a law
Idea, write a bill to show others for support, goes to commite in house of reps, reps vote, if majority votes yes goes to full house to edit, full house votes and edits, if majority votes yes, goes to senate commite to edit, senate commite votes and edits, if majority votes yes goes to full senate, full senate votes, if half or more vote yes, goes to president to sign veto or pocket veto, if POTUS signs bill becomes a law!
Supremacy clause
Shall be the supreme law of the land. The constitution is the most important and we have to follow it
Elastic clause
Gives congress power to do something even if it’s not stated in the constitution but is needed
Establishment clause
No established religion
Free exercise clause
right to practice religion freely
First 5 freedoms in the first amendment
Religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition
