3 Branches of Government Review

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Legislative Branch for $100• The title of the person who presides over the House of Representatives.

Answer: What/who is the Speaker of the

House?

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Legislative Branch for $200 A long speech used to delay passage

of a bill.

Answer: What is a filibuster? Back to the

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Legislative Branch for $300 Reapportionment to describes the

redistribution of seats in the House; based on this taken every ten years.

Answer: What is a census? Back to the

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Legislative Branch for $400 Before a bill is debated on the floor,

it goes here for public hearings, debate, and revisions.

Answer What is committee or

subcommittee? Back to the Questions

Legislative Branch for $500 Name the two steps of removing

someone from office.

Answer: What is impeachment:

Bringing charges against the person in the House needs 2/3rd vote

Voting on the charges to remove the person in the Senate needs 2/3rd vote

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Executive Branch for $100 What president served more than 2

terms?

Answer: What is President

Franklin D. Roosevelt? Back to the Questions

Executive Branch for $200 Only this type of citizen may become

President.

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•What is natural born?

Executive Branch for $300 Making treaties and foreign policy,

and appointing ambassadors are all parts of this role.

Answer What is Chief Diplomat? Back to the Q

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•The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are examples of these.

Answer: What are independent

agencies or selected regulatory commissions?

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Executive Branch for $500 Leaders of the Executive

Departments form this?

Answer: What is the cabinet? Back to

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Judicial Branch for $100 These are the three levels of federal

courts.

Answer: What are:1. Trial2. Appeals3. Supreme Court

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Judicial Branch $200 This makes the meaning of

Constitution clearer and impacts future rulings.

Answer: What is a precedent? Back to the

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The Daily Double Question Key term that means a court whose

judges overturn legislative – made laws they believe are in conflict with the Constitution.

Answer: What is judicial activism? Back to the

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Judicial Branch for $400 True or False: A jury is present at

federal appeal courts.

Answer What is false? Back to the

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Judicial Branch for $500 This are the four steps of the

Supreme Court case process.

Answer What are:1. Selecting a case2. Hearing a case3. Making a decision4. Writing opinions

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Powers for $100 Congress considering the

President’s ideas and agenda is this role.

Answer What is Legislative Leader?

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Powers for $200: Giving executive orders, enforcing

laws, and appointing federal employees is part of this role.

Answer What is Chief Executive? Back to the

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Powers for $300 This Vice – President, besides

presiding over the Senate does what specific function?

Answer: What is cast the tie-

breaking vote. Serve as President if the

President cannot perform his/her duties

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Powers for $400 What presidential role was President

Ford performing when he pardoned former President Nixon?

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Powers for $500 What is a non-legisaltive power of

Congress?

Answer:What is holding

investigations? Back to the Questions

Potpourri for $100 When a president holds onto a bill,

and does not sign it while Congress is NOT in session.

Answer: What is a pocket-veto. Back to the

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Potpourri for $200 The most recent Supreme Court

Justice.

Answer:

Who is Elena Kagan.

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Potpourri for $300 Citizens and the Legislative Branch

can check the Judicial Branch by doing this.

Answer: What is proposing and

passing amendments to the Constitution.

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Potpourri for $400

This man challenged his right to know his rights when accused of a crime.

Answer Who was Ernesto

Miranda? Back to the

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Potpourri for $500 This is the informal phrase that is

given to the words in the Constitution, “allowing Congress to make laws necessary and proper”.

Answer: What is the elastic clause?

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