Article II: The Executive Branch

Enforces the laws

President, Vice-President, and Presidential Cabinet

  1. Term and election process
  2. serves ___ year terms
  3. (22nd Amendment limits the number of terms a President can serve to two.)
  4. Elected by presidential electors who form the ______
  5. Presidential elections - 1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday in November
  6. Electors cast their votes on the ______after the 2nd______in ______
  7. Qualifications:
  8. Citizen of US by ______
  9. At least ______years old
  10. Resident of US for ______years
  11. Presidential Succession Act of 1947
  12. ______becomes President if the President dies, resigns, or is removed from office.

4. Oath of office – administered by the ______of the US Supreme Court

  1. ______was the only president-elect to not be sworn in by the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.
  1. Vacancies
  2. President can temporarily appoint officials to fill vacancies when ______is not in session.
  3. Duties of the President
  4. Annual State-of-the-Union address
  5. Can call Congress into special session
  6. Receive foreign diplomats and power to ask a foreign diplomats and power to ask a foreign country to withdraw its diplomatic officials from this country (implies war)
  7. Power to recognize or not recognize foreign governments
  8. Powers
  9. command the armed forces
  10. make treaties with other nations
  11. pardon criminals
  12. appoint certain gov’t officials (Senate must approve these.)
  13. veto laws passed by Congress
  14. Impeachment
  15. Reasons for --- conviction of treason, bribery, high crimes, and misdemeanors

Article III: The Judicial Branch

Interprets the law

US Supreme Court and other Federal Courts

  1. Number of Justices
  2. There are ______justices.
  3. They serve for ______
  4. Function:
  5. To ______laws of the land and to preserve and protect the rights the Constitution guarantees
  6. Judicial Review – power of Supreme Court to review gov’t acts and possibly declare them unconstitutional
  7. 1803 – John Marshall called an act of Congress unconstitutional in the landmark case known as Marbury vs. Madison – he established precedent or example for future courts to follow
  8. Jurisdiction
  9. The power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law within a certain boundary.
  10. ______- laws passed by Congress, treaties, and cases involving the Constitution
  11. ______jurisdiction- authority to be 1st court to hear a case
  12. ______jurisdiction - cases that have been appealed from lower courts
  13. Treason
  14. Definition
  15. ______witnesses be present to testify in court that a treasonable act was committed
  16. Punishment - ______has this power.

Article IV: Relation Among the States

  1. Extradition
  2. Person convicted of a crime or a person accused of a crime must be returned to the ______where the crime was committed.
  3. Fugitive-Slave Clause
  4. Slaves can’t become free by escaping to ______states.
  5. Power of Congress
  6. ______admits new states based on guidelines for applying for statehood.
  7. Congress has power over ______land.

Article V: The Amending Process

Article VI: National Supremacy

Constitution and federal laws are supreme when in conflict with those of states

Article VII: Ratification

States that the Constitution will go into effect after ____states ratify it (____ out of the 13 states)

Review Information:

  • There are 7 Articles and 27 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
  • The first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution are called the Bill of Rights.
  • Know the qualifications for becoming a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator.
  • The number of Representatives is based on population and the number of Senators is two per state.
  • Checks and Balances diagram
  • What does impeachment mean?
  • Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas – know the meaning
  • The House of Representatives has the sole power of impeachment. The Senate acts as the jury and the trial is held there. The U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice acts as the judge.
  • A writ of habeas corpus prevents you from being held without sufficient evidence.
  • Culture is the way of life of a group of people.
  • The 1st civilizations arose in river valleys.
  • The period of time after the fall of the Roman Empire was known as the Middle Ages.
  • The cry “No taxation without representation” is associated with the conflict between the American colonists and the British Parliament.
  • A characteristic of a large urban area is high population density.
  • Our Founding Fathers established three branches of government to limit the power of any one branch.
  • The Commonwealth of Kentucky is responsible for laws governing state parks.
  • Prairies, Steppes, and Savannas are all grassland regions.
  • In the United States economy, one purpose of government is to establish rules and regulations that allow businesses to compete fairly.
  • Wyoming has a rural population.
  • Eminent Domain