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| Rights of life, liberty and property are called your what? |
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| To say what something means and if it is legal is to |
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| Men who wrote the Constitution are called what? |
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| A written plan of government |
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| When there are no laws or rules it is called what? |
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| Type of government when the government has no rules. Govt can do anything |
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| When people agree to give up some of their rights in order for the government to protect them |
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| Type of government when the government has rules. There are things is can't do |
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| This branch makes the laws |
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| This branch is the president |
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| This branch is the Supreme Court |
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| This branch carries out or enforces the laws |
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| This branch is the Congress |
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| This branch interprets the laws |
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| This branch is the House of Representatives and the Senate |
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| Time that a person serves in office |
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| Place where Congress meets |
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| Which house? Members of this house serve a 6 year term? |
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| Which house? Members of this group can run at age 25? |
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| Which house? Members of this house must be 30 years old? |
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| Which house? Members of this group serve a 2-year term? |
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| Which house? There are 100 members total in this group? |
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| Which house? There are 435 people in this group? |
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| Counting all the people to determine the population is called a |
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| The introduction to the Constitution |
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| To accuse an official of a crime |
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| Main body of the Constitution? |
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| Number of representatives a state has is based on what? |
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| Who is the presiding officer of the House of Representatives? |
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| How many representatives total? |
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| Each state will have this many senators? |
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| Who is the presiding officer of the Senate? |
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| To convict someone in impeachment, this fraction of senators must vote guilty |
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| Each branch has a way to check or make sure the others are doing their job is called what? |
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| This divided or separated the 3 jobs of government into 3 branches is called? |
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| How many houses of Congress? |
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| House of Representatives and Senate |
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| What 2 houses make up the Congress? |
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| What is the purpose of the Preamble? |
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| What is the job of the legislative branch? |
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| How many amendments total? |
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| Which of the 2 houses has the power to accuse the official of a crime? |
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| It chooses the President pro tempore |
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| If the Vice-President is absent, what does the Senate do? |
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| Chief Justice of the Supreme Court |
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| Who acts as the judge in the impeachment of a president? |
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| Chief Justice of the Supreme Court |
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| Who acts as the judge in the impeachment of a president? |
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| How many branches of government? |
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| Articles of Confederation |
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| What was the first government of the United States? |
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| Where does the government get the right to govern?F |
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| The state and the national government |
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| The Federal System divides power between what 2 groups? |
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1) Federal System
2) Separation of Powers
3) Checks and Balances |
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| What are the 3 tools that keep 1 part of the government from becoming too powerful? |
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| Crazy, wild, chaos, out of control |
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| What is life like in a state of nature? |
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| We need a government to make laws or everything would be in a state of nature or crazy. |
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| Why do we need a government? |
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| To protect people's rights |
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| According to John Locke, what is the main purpose of government? |
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| Why do we have natural right? |
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