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Separation of Powers:
1: These powers belong only to the federal government, and are often denied to the
states by the wording of the Constitution.
What are exclusive powers?
2: This article provided that the Judicial Power of the United States should be vested
in one Supreme Court, as well as inferior courts that Congress may establish
What is Article III, Section 1?
3: These powers are among the most important powers reserved to the states. And
are powers that can protect an individual’s well-being.
What are “police powers?”
4: These powers could be freely exercised by both the federal and state governments.
What are concurrent powers?
5: This type of power is not directly stated by the Constitution itself, but it is rather
suggested by the wording of the document.
What is an implied power?
Checks and Balances:
1: This branch has the right to call a special session of Congress.
What is the Executive Branch?
2: This branch has the right to remove a judge from the Supreme Court.
What is the Legislative Branch?
3: This branch has the right to declare a law unconstitutional.
What is the Judicial Branch?
4: This branch has the power to ratify a treaty with a foreign country.
What is the Legislative Branch?
5: This branch has the power to confirm an appointment to the Cabinet.
What is the Legislative Branch?
Amendments 11-27:
1: This amendment, passed in 1865, forbade slavery of any kind in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
2: This amendment, passed in 1951, decreased the number of terms one can serve as
president by two.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
3: This amendment, adopted in 1992, prevented members of Congress from
increasing their own salaries during the session that they are serving.
What is the 27th Amendment?
4: This amendment, adopted in 1964, denied the right of the federal or state
government from denying the right of a person to vote because of an unpaid tax, like
a poll tax.
What is the 24th Amendment?
5: This amendment, the 20th Amendment, changed the start of a Congressional term
as well as the start of a presidential/vice-presidential term.
What is the Lame Duck Amendment?
Constitutional Vocabulary:
1: This is the principle of a division of power between a central government and a
number of state governments.
What is federalism?
2: This is the principle that supreme political power resides within the people, and
that the government rules only with the consent of the people through elected
officials.
What is popular sovereignty?
3: This is the idea of a two-house legislature, which was implemented in the
Congress of the United States.
What is bicameral legislature”
4: This is the principle of the authority of a court system to hear a case belonging to
court.
What is jurisdiction?
5: This is a law forbidden by the Constitution, that prosecutes a person whom has
broken a current law recently passed, but at the time when he broken the law, the
law was not already in place.
What is an ex post facto law?
Basic Principles of Constitution:
1: This message states what the purpose of the Constitution is.
What is the Preamble?
2: This is the number of Amendments that are currently in the Constitution as of
November 11th, 2002.
What is 27?
3: All government officials must take this before taking office.
What is an oath to uphold the Constitution?
4: The name for this Article, Article VI, basically explains that the United States
must keep all debts from before the signing of the Constitution, and that in case of
conflict, national law should take priority over state law.
What was “General Provisions?”
5: The name for this Article, Article IV, explains the relations between the federal
government with the states, as well as the relations of the states between other states.
What was “Relations Among the States?”
Miscellaneous:
1: This is the largest moon of Uranus.
What is Titania?
2: This is the brightest red super giant star in the constellation Orion.
What is Betelgeuse?
3: This is the only spacecraft that has been launched to study Mercury.
What is Mariner 10?
4: This is a yellow giant, and the 6th brightest star in the sky, the brightest in the
constellation Auriga.
What is Capella?
5: This super cluster is the super cluster that the Milky Way Galaxy is located in.
What is the Virgo Super cluster?
Final Jeopardy:
This person, whom lived from 1755 to 1804, was one of the delegates to the
Constitution whom signed the Constitution. Along with John Jay and James
Madison, he was one of the authors of the federalist papers, which basically
communicated the benefits of the new federalist, stronger government. Later, he
became the Secretary of the Treasury, although he was then a rival of Aaron Burr.
In 1804, Burr challenged Hamilton to a duel, and Hamilton fell, mortally wounded,
and died the next day.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?