The Legislative Branch The Presidency The Executive Branch & Bureaucracy The Federal Courts The Supreme Court Past & Present
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What is Congress?
This is the collective name of the two chambers of the legislative branch of the US government.
100
What is an Executive Order?
This form of presidential power is constitutional and has been used by every single person to hold the office. Hint: George Washington used one to create the Thanksgiving holiday.
100
What is the USPS or Post Office?
This is one of the most widely known and recognized examples of a government corporation.
100
What is the Supreme Court? or What is the US Supreme Court?
This court is the highest level of federal court and the highest court in the United States judicial system.
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What is 9?
This is the number of justices that currently make up the US Supreme Court.
200
What is the Senate?
Each state is allowed two representatives in this chamber of Congress and representatives serve 6 year terms.
200
What is a pocket veto?
This type of veto cannot be overridden by Congress.
200
What is a government shutdown?
This is what happens when Congress and the President cannot agree on a federal budget for the fiscal year.
200
What are lifetime appointments?
This is the type of appointment granted to members of the federal judiciary, or judicial branch.
200
What is Congress?
The US Constitution grants this branch of government the power to decide how many justices will sit on the US Supreme Court.
300
Who is Raphael Warnock?
This current GA Senator is up for re-election in 2022.
300
Who is Barack Obama?
During his presidential campaign, this recent US president vowed to not use signing statements but ended up using them within his first months in office.
300
What are Cabinet Departments? Or What is the Cabinet?
The Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense are examples of this sort of bureaucratic agencies. Hint: they advise the President.
300
What was/is Marbury v. Madison?
This landmark case established judicial review for the Supreme Court, or the power to strike down actions of Congress, the president or states if those acts violate the Constitution.
300
Who is John Roberts?
This current Supreme Court justice is also the Chief Justice, and was appointed by George Bush.
400
What is pork-barrel legislation?
The means by which members of Congress seek to win federal funds for their districts or states.
400
What was FDR? Or Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This US president was the first to begin taking more power for his office and away from the Legislative Branch.
400
What is devolution?
This term describes the process by which the federal government releases control or authority over a project to state or local governments.
400
What is the 11th Circuit?
This is the circuit within the US Court of Appeals that hears cases that are from Georgia, including wrongful conviction appeals of murder cases.
400
What are political view or opinions?
Although the Constitution does not explicitly restrict justices from voicing these sort of opinions, most justices do not to avoid questions regarding their ethics.
500
Who are Donald Trump and Bill Clinton?
The two most recent US presidents to be impeached by Congress.
500
What was the Legislative Epoch?
This is the period of time from 1800-1933 when Congress, or the Legislative Branch, dominated national policymaking.
500
What is President Trump's Border Wall? Or the Border Wall?
Disagreements over this issue are what caused the longest and most recent federal shutdown.
500
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
This Founder was strongly opposed to the judicial branch becoming the most powerful branch of the newly formed US government.
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What is 6?
How many justices made up the original Supreme Court, as appointed by George Washington.






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