chapter 11,12,13 SI QUIZ

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Questão 1

Questão
How many spots are in the House of Reps?
Responda
  • 458
  • 243
  • 435
  • 398

Questão 2

Questão
How many Senators are there?
Responda
  • 100
  • 50
  • 200
  • 150

Questão 3

Questão
How long is a Senate term?
Responda
  • 2
  • 4
  • 6
  • 8

Questão 4

Questão
How long is a House of Reps term?
Responda
  • 6
  • 8
  • 4
  • 2

Questão 5

Questão
Define Bicameral
Responda
  • 2 camels
  • 2 congresses
  • 2 branches or chambers

Questão 6

Questão
House of reps have the power to:
Responda
  • pass legislation
  • pick senator
  • impeach
  • hold debates

Questão 7

Questão
Senate can:
Responda
  • hold impeachment trials
  • arrest unconstitutional member
  • veto laws
  • pick president

Questão 8

Questão
How many presidents have been impeached?
Responda
  • 0
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3

Questão 9

Questão
If no candidate gets majority electoral votes then ______ decides
Responda
  • Senate
  • Congress
  • House of reps
  • My mom

Questão 10

Questão
________ can ratify treaties.
Responda
  • President
  • Senate
  • Congress
  • House of Reps

Questão 11

Questão
How many votes from the Senate does it take to ratify treaty?
Responda
  • 0
  • 1/3
  • 2/3
  • 1

Questão 12

Questão
All proposed tax bills come from ___________.
Responda
  • Senate
  • House of Reps
  • Congress
  • president

Questão 13

Questão
Connecticut compromise also known as the ____________.
Responda
  • Boston Tea Party
  • Federalist agreement
  • Great Compromise
  • Constitutional convention

Questão 14

Questão
The Great Compromise dealt with __________________________.
Responda
  • Proportional representation
  • Equal representation
  • Proportional vs. Equal representation
  • All the these

Questão 15

Questão
Which bicameral branch is considered the upper house?
Responda
  • House of Reps.
  • Senate
  • Neither

Questão 16

Questão
Which article of the Constitution sets forth the responsibilities of the president?
Responda
  • Article II
  • Article I
  • Article III
  • all of them

Questão 17

Questão
According to the Constitution, the minimum age requirement for the president is
Responda
  • forty
  • thirty-five
  • forty-five
  • thirty

Questão 18

Questão
The powers of the president as outlined in the Constitution are
Responda
  • extensively and specifically described
  • very similar to the powers of a parliamentary executive
  • briefly stated and comparatively vague
  • more elaborately described than the powers of Congress.

Questão 19

Questão
The Constitution does not give the president power to
Responda
  • veto legislation
  • serve as administrative head of the nation
  • serve as commander-in-chief of the military
  • declare war
  • convene sessions of Congress

Questão 20

Questão
It takes a _________ vote of Congress to overturn a presidential veto
Responda
  • a moajority
  • one-third
  • two-thirds
  • 100%

Questão 21

Questão
Researchers of both chambers (house & senate)
Responda
  • Joint committees
  • Conference committee
  • Select committee
  • Subcommittee

Questão 22

Questão
Experts who propose the legislation
Responda
  • Joint Committee
  • Subcommittee
  • Select Committee
  • Conference Committee

Questão 23

Questão
Serve for a specific purpose ex: (debt reduction)
Responda
  • Joint Committee
  • Subcommittee
  • Select Committee
  • Conference Committee

Questão 24

Questão
They negotiate differences between two chambers
Responda
  • Joint committee
  • Select Committee
  • Subcommittee
  • Conference Committee

Questão 25

Questão
_______ are party enforcers (make sure people vote for their party)
Responda
  • Whips
  • President
  • Secretaries
  • Party representatives

Questão 26

Questão
Significance of Article 1 section 1:
Responda
  • States who can be president
  • States who can vote
  • States who can be in the Senate
  • States who can be in the House of reps.

Questão 27

Questão
How do you meet regulations to be president?
Responda
  • 35 years old, natural born citizen, 14 years living US
  • 35 years old, natural born citizen, 41 years living in US
  • 25 years old, foreign citizen, 14 years living in US
  • 30 years old, natural born citizen. 12 years living in US

Questão 28

Questão
Powers not specifically said in the Constitution
Responda
  • Inherent Powers
  • Constitutional Powers
  • Implied Powers
  • Enumerated Powers

Questão 29

Questão
Article 1
Responda
  • Presidency
  • Congress
  • Judiciary

Questão 30

Questão
Article 2
Responda
  • Congress
  • Presidency
  • Judiciary

Questão 31

Questão
Article 3
Responda
  • Congress
  • Judiciary
  • Presidency

Questão 32

Questão
•Judges have their jobs for
Responda
  • 2 years
  • 6 years
  • 4 years
  • lifetime

Questão 33

Questão
Act of waging war against united states or aiding enemy against United States
Responda
  • Treason
  • Fraud
  • terrorism

Questão 34

Questão
Used when federal officials come across laws questionable for being unconstitutional
Responda
  • Checks & Balances
  • Judicial Activism
  • Judicial Review
  • Judicial Supremacy

Questão 35

Questão
The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937:a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. Roosevelt's purpose was to obtain favorable rulings regarding New Deal legislation that the court had ruled unconstitutional. (frequently called the "court-packing plan")
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 36

Questão
What court case reflects Judicial Review?
Responda
  • Plessy vs. ferguson
  • Marybury vs. madison

Questão 37

Questão
What year was Judicial review introduced?
Responda
  • 1803
  • 1789
  • 1996
  • 2001

Questão 38

Questão
In order for a bill to get veto, both chambers (senate & House) need to have a 2/3 vote.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 39

Questão
Vass majority of court cases start?
Responda
  • District Court
  • State Court
  • Supreme Court

Questão 40

Questão
3 basic functions:
Responda
  • Settle disputes, interpret laws, judicial review
  • start conflicts, make laws, judicial review
  • Settle disputes, make laws, judicial review

Questão 41

Questão
Past court decisions influence how courts rule on the same matter in the future
Responda
  • common law
  • civil law
  • statutory law

Questão 42

Questão
Set of cases that they are able to trial
Responda
  • Jurisdiction
  • Venue
  • Competence

Questão 43

Questão
How many tiers of federal court system?
Responda
  • 0
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3

Questão 44

Questão
___________ approves judges?
Responda
  • senate
  • House
  • President

Questão 45

Questão
___________ appoints judges?
Responda
  • President
  • Senate
  • House

Questão 46

Questão
__________ courts have original jurisdiction
Responda
  • Trial
  • Supreme
  • District

Questão 47

Questão
How many circuit courts in U.S?
Responda
  • 6
  • 12
  • 24

Questão 48

Questão
How many district courts in U.S?
Responda
  • 26
  • 57
  • 94

Questão 49

Questão
Two types of law that make up public law?
Responda
  • Civil and Criminal
  • Statutory and Criminal
  • Civil and Statutory

Questão 50

Questão
Federal judges salaries
Responda
  • Can be reduced
  • Can't be reduced
  • stay the same

Questão 51

Questão
Known as Originator of Judicial Review.
Responda
  • John Marshall
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Richard Nixon
  • George W. Bush

Questão 52

Questão
• 4 scenarios where federal courts have original jurisdiction: 1) Causes involving treaties with other countries 2) Cases involving U.S constitution 3) Cases where the law at issue is a federal law 4) Someone sues U.S government for wronging them in a way
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 53

Questão
FIAT JUSTITIA is Latin for ‘‘Let justice be done"
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 54

Questão
Every two years, _________ of the Senate must stand for reelection.
Responda
  • One fourth
  • One Half
  • One third
  • All

Questão 55

Questão
All U.S. Senators were no longer chosen by state legislatures after the passage of the
Responda
  • Thirteenth Amendment
  • Seventeenth Amendment
  • Sixteenth Amendment
  • Nineteenth Amendment

Questão 56

Questão
Every two years, how many of the 435 House seats are up for reelection at the same time?
Responda
  • All
  • One quarter
  • One half
  • One third

Questão 57

Questão
The redistribution of seats among the states every ten years after a census is known as
Responda
  • redistricting
  • reapportionment
  • gerrymandering
  • reallocation

Questão 58

Questão
A president can be impeached by the _________ and tried and removed from office by the __________.
Responda
  • House; House
  • Senate; House
  • House; Senate
  • Senate; Senate

Questão 59

Questão
Which of the following powers is the exclusive power of the Senate?
Responda
  • To approve treaties
  • To Impeach
  • To Redistrict
  • To initiate revenue bills

Questão 60

Questão
The power to declare war resides with:
Responda
  • The House and Senate together
  • The House Armed Services Committee
  • The House of Representatives
  • The President only

Questão 61

Questão
The American public generally
Responda
  • holds Congress as an institution in higher regard than it holds individual members of Congress
  • holds individual members of Congress in higher regard than it holds Congress as an institution
  • holds Congress in higher regard than it holds the president
  • holds neither Congress nor its members in high regard

Questão 62

Questão
The practice of altering district lines for partisan advantage after the census is also known as
Responda
  • redistricting
  • reapportionment
  • gerrymandering
  • cloture

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