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Unit SIX - Constitutional Details
Unit SIX - Constitutional Details
Target 69 - I can identify the key elements of the Electoral College. (4 questions)
What determines how many electoral votes a state possesses?
How many electoral votes does Missouri currently possess?
How many electoral votes are necessary to win a presidential election?
What ‘non-state’ has electoral votes and how many?
Target 70 - I can explain Gerrymandering. (1 question)
What is Gerrymandering?
Target 71 - I can show the presidential line of succession. (4 questions)
Who is 1st in line to be President of the United States?
Who is 2nd in line to be President of the United States?
Who is 3rd in line to be President of the United States?
What group is after the 3rd in line in the succession to be President of the United States?
Target 72 - I can organize and summarize the powers within Federalism. (7 questions)
What are Enumerated Powers (also known as Delegated or Expressed)?
What part of the Constitution are most Enumerated Powers found?
What are Implied Powers?
What Supreme Court case validated Implied Powers?
What are Reserved Powers?
What part of the Constitution are Reserved Powers protected?
What are Concurrent Powers?
Target 73 - I can summarize the process of impeachment. (6 questions)
Who can be impeached?
Who has the sole power of impeachment?
Who holds the trial of impeachment?
Who is the judge of the trials of impeachment?
Who is the judge of the trials of impeachment of the President?
What are the punishments for a guilty verdict of impeachment?
Target 74 - I can organize the steps in the lawmaking process. (11 questions)
How many members are currently in Congress?
Which house starts all bills dealing with money?
Once a bill is introduced in either house, what group reviews the bill first?
What is normally the required vote for a bill to pass Congress?
What are the three options that the President has when a bill reaches him?
What is the purpose of a joint or conference committee?
How many votes are necessary in Congress to override a veto?
What is a filibuster?
What is a pocket veto?
What happens to a pocket veto if Congress is IN session?
What happens to a pocket veto if Congress is NOT in session?
Target 75 - I can explain the function of the federal bureaucracy. (3 questions)
What is the purpose of the federal bureaucracy?
Who makes up the federal bureaucracy?
What branch of government is the bureaucracy found?
Target 76 - I can diagram and explain the checks & balances between the three branches of government. (6 questions)
What are checks the Legislative Branch has on the Executive Branch?
What are checks the Legislative Branch has on the Judicial Branch?
What are checks the Executive Branch has on the Legislative Branch?
What are checks the Executive Branch has on the Judicial Branch?
What are checks the Judicial Branch has on the Executive Branch?
What are checks the Judicial Branch has on the Legislative Branch?
Target 77 - I can summarize the principles of American Government. (10 questions)
What is Popular Sovereignty?
What is Federalism?
What is meant by Separation of Powers?
What is the purpose of Checks & Balances?
What is the Rule of Law?
What is meant by “majority rules with minority rights?”
What is the legal principle of Stare Decisis?
What is the legal principle of Presumption of Innocence?
What is Judicial Review?
What Supreme Court case established Judicial Review?
Target 78 - I can distinguish between and summarize major landmark Supreme Court Cases. (8 questions)
What is a landmark Supreme Court case?
What was the reason for Marbury v Madison being a landmark case?
What principle of government was established from Marbury v Madison?
What national power was defined in McCulloch v Maryland?
Where in the Constitution is the national power that was verified in McCulloch v Maryland by the Supreme Court?
What was the ruling in the Plessy v Ferguson Case?
What was the ruling in the Brown v Board of Education Case?
What was the ruling in the Miranda v Arizona Case?
Target 79 - I can define key terms related to the legislative branch. (10 questions)
What does bicameral mean legislatively?
How are Reapportionment and the Census related to one another?
What is the purpose of Oversight?
What is a constituent?
What is an Ex Post Facto Law?
What is a Bill of Attainder?
What does Congress do with regard to Naturalization?
What is the difference between De Jure and De Facto?
What is meant by Laissez-Faire government?
What is a statute?
Target 80 - I can define key terms related to the executive branch. (4 questions)
What is the purpose of an executive order?
What is a Line-Item Veto?
What is a Bureaucracy?
What is meant by a political mandate?
Target 81 - I can define key terms related to the judicial branch. (5 questions)
What is Judicial Review?
What is the difference between a criminal case and a civil case?
What is the purpose of the Due Process Clause?
What is the purpose of a Grand Jury?
What is Habeas Corpus?
Target 82 - I can define key terms related to rights and duties. (6 questions)
What is the purpose of the Establishment Clause?
What is the purpose of the Free Exercise Clause?
What is the purpose of Eminent Domain?
What is suffrage?
What is the Exclusionary Rule of the 4th Amendment?
What is the difference between a civic duty and civic responsibility?
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