Government Test Final

Joe Biden

Kamala Harris

Nanci Pelosi

Chuck Schumer

• Roy Blunt, Josh Hawley

• Cori Bush(1), Ann Wagner(2), Blaine Luetkemeyer(3), Vicky Hartzler(4)

• Emanuel Cleaver(5), Sam Graves(6), Billy Long(7), Jason Smith(8)

Top Dem

Bottom Repub

John Roberts

Clarence Thomas

• Antony Blinken(Secretary of state), Janet Yellen(Secretary treasurer), Lloyd Austin(secretary of defense), Merrick Garland(Attorny General)

• Mike Parsons

Mike Kehoe

Jay Ashcroft

Nicole Galloway

Eric Scmidt

Scott Fitzpatrick

Sarah Walsh

Caleb Rowden

• The Legislative power creates laws for the nation and Congress occupies it

The executive power enforces laws and the chief embodiment of that is the president

The judicial power is the Supreme Court  and they interpret the laws

• Population, Sovereignty, Government, defined borders.

• Thomas Hobbes and John Locke

• Nasty, short, and brutish

King George III

• The intolerable acts

Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

• Inability to raise taxes, lack of legislation, lack of trade

Land ordinance of 1785, Northwest ordinance of 1787

1780s

Founding Fathers

Philadelphia Pennsylvania

• A bicameral legislature with representation based on the population, Proposed 3 branches of government with the legislative being the most powerful.

• Proposed unicameral legislature(equal representation between states)

• Proposed 3 branches of government

• Bicameral legislature with 1 house based on population and one with equal representation

• 3 out of every 5 slaves would be counted for representation, and 2 out of 5 for taxation.

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Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, Petition

$20

No Excessive bail, no excessive fines imposed, nor cruel or unusual punishment inflicted.

Unreasonable search and seizure

• Cannot be held for trial of major crimes unless indicted by a grand jury, cannot be tried for same crime twice, cannot be forced to give testimony against yourself, right to due process in federal courts, private property cannot be taken unless a fair price is paid for it.

• Fair and speedy trial, fair and impartial jury, right to be told what crime you are being charged with, right to confront your accuser, required process to find witnesses in your favor, legal representation.

slavery

• Section 1: if born in the U.S. you are a U.S. citizen

• Section 2:  Undoes ⅗ compromise

• Section 3: If you participated in the confederacy you cant run for a political office

• Section 4: Union will pay back loans, confederacy loans will not be payed back

• Section 5: Congress has the power to enforce all the new amendments

• All slaves that were just freed can now vote(Men only)

Women can now vote

• Prohibition, banning of alcohol

• Repealed 18th amendment, allowed to buy and sell alcohol again

• Makes it to where president can only serve two terms

Voting age lowered to 18

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article 1

• Presidential elections

• Every two years

• The first tuesday after a monday in november

• Must be 25 years of age and have been a citizen for at least 7 years, must be resident of the state you represent.

• Must be at leats 30 year of age, must be citizen for 9 years, muts be a resident of the state that you are elected from

• Split between the 3rd and 4th districts

• practice of making districts shaped in a way that is unfairly biased to favor one party or the other

• House of Representatives and the Senate

• 220 democrats, 212 republicans, 3 vacant seats

• 50 republicans, 50 Democrats

• 2 years

• 6 year terms

• 151 women(28.2%)

Senate(64.3)

protestant(55.5)%

• Speaker of the house

• Creat bills that raise and lower taxes, impeach federal officials, and elect president in result of electoral college tie

• Senate majority leader

• President pro Tempore

• Approves appointees of the president and ratify treaties with foreign countries.

Give a detailed description of how laws are made in the US federal government

• 2/3s majority

• Elecotoral college

• Article 2

• 10 electoral votes

• Number of representatives + 2

• 4 years

• Two terms

• 46 presidents

• Commander in chief(Highest level of military command)

• Chief executive(in charge of largest branch of government)

• Chief Diplomat(most important representative to foreign countries and must visit our friends and restrain our enemies)

• Chief Legislator( Suggests and supports different pieces of legislation)

• Head of their political party( supporting other members of their party in elections and working to improve the image of their party across the country)

• Roughly 4 million people

• group of people who serve as the heads of the executive departments and are the closest advisors to the president

• VP and 15 executive department heads

• State, treasury, defense, and justice

• Homeland Security

• VP, Speaker of the house, president pro tempore of the senate, Head of executive branch departments in order of when they were created.

• Power to issue pardons, power to issue executive orders, power to appoint supreme court justices, ambassadors to foreign countries and other executive officials.

• Article 3

• 9 seats

lifetime

• Justices are appointed by the president and approved by the senate

6

• 3 liberal

• An opinion

Judicial review

• Federal Government has broad power to regulate interstate commerce

• enslaved man Dred Scott could not sue for his freedom because he was property- property does not have the right to sue.

• Ruled that segregation was legal as long as there were equal facilities for both races- established the language of Separate but Equa

• Ruled that segregated schools were unconstitutional and that in schools Separate facilities could never be equal

• Ruled that courts had to provide lawyers for people who could not afford one