Blundell - Civics and Economics Review Pink (SOL 6-8)

What are the two parts of our Congress?

• The Station and the House
• The Supreme Court and the White House
• The President and the Vice President
• The Senate and the House of Representatives

The _________________________ Branch of our government enforces our laws.

• Legislative
• Democratic
• Executive
• House of Representatives

The number of representatives a state has is based on the state's _________________________.

• location
• name
• population
• altitude

Interprets the law

• Legislative
• Executive 
• Judicial

The Supreme Court’s reviewing and ruling on acts of other branches of the government and determining if a law is unconstitutional is called

• Supremacy
• law review
• Judicial Review
• Supreme ruling

What do you call a local law?

• Statute
• Ordinance
• Act
• Bill

Congress proposes an amendment legalizing an income tax * The Supreme Court rules that the income tax is unconstitutional.  These events illustrate the use of ___ .

• delegated powers
• checks and balances
• judicial legislation
• the unwritten constitution

Which of these is a way that Congress can check the president? 

• Congress can override a veto with a 2/3 vote in both houses
• Congress can declare a law unconstitutional
• Congress can choose the judges for the Supreme Court
• Congress can enforce laws

The Executive branch can ________; the Legislative can ______; and the Judicial can _________.

• Impeach officials; Veto laws; Declare War

• Veto laws; Impeach officials; declare laws unconstitutional

• Declare laws unconstitutional; Appoint officials; Make laws

Federal powers are called ______ and state powers are called ________.

• Implied, Concurrent

• Concurrent, Expressed

• Reserved, Implied

• Expressed, Reserved