Target 40 - I can describe basic details about the Presidency. (3 questions)
What is the term of office for the President?
Who directly elects the President and Vice President?
What are the qualifications for the President and Vice President?
Target 41 - I can list and organize the powers and privileges of the President. (9 questions)
What is meant by ‘Commander-in-Chief?’
What presidential power checks the Judicial Branch?
How is the President the ‘Chief Diplomat?’
Explain the process of making treaties?
What offices can the President nominate officials?
Who must approve all presidential nominations to office?
What is a Special Session?
What is the President required to give to Congress at least once a year?
What two entities is the President the head?
Target 42 - I can identify the reasons why the President can be impeached. (1 question)
What are the reasons to impeach the President?
Target 43 - I can describe basic details of the Supreme Court and the lower federal courts. (7 questions)
What is the highest court in the United States?
Who creates lower courts?
Who decides the number of judges that sit on the federal courts?
How many Justices can be on the Supreme Court?
What is the Title of the Head of the Supreme Court?
What is the term of office for any Federal Judge?
What are the qualifications for being a federal judge or Supreme Court Justice?
Target 44 - I can interpret the types of cases that can be heard by the federal courts. (1 question)
What types of cases are heard before a federal court?
Target 45 - I can diagram the hierarchy of the Federal Court System. (1 question)
What are the three levels of Article III Courts from top to bottom?
Target 46 - I can differentiate between original and appellate jurisdiction. (5 questions)
What is original jurisdiction?
What is appellate jurisdiction?
What court only has original jurisdiction?
What court only has appellate jurisdiction?
What federal court has both original and appellate jurisdiction?
Target 47 - I can define treason. (1 question)
What is treason?
Target 48 - I can describe the details of the powers and obligations of the states. (2 questions)
What is the Full Faith and Credit Clause?
What is extradition?
Target 49 - I can describe the obligations of the national government to the states. (2 questions)
What is a republican form of government?
What safety obligation does the national government have to the states?
Target 50 - I can describe how states are admitted to the Union. (1 question)
Who admits new states to the Union?
Target 51 - I can describe the process of amending the Constitution. (3 questions)
How many votes within Congress are required to propose a Constitutional Amendment?
How many states must call for a Constitutional Convention to amend the Constitution?
What is necessary in the ratifying phase of amending the Constitution?
Target 52 - I can interpret the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution. (2 questions)
What is the meaning of the Supremacy Clause?
What are all public officials required to take?
Target 53 - I can describe the purpose of Article Seven of the Constitution. (1 question)
What is the purpose of Article Seven of the Constitution?