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number of senators in Senate

100

number of delegates who signed the Constitution

39

number of representatives in House

435

Which of the following statements is true?

A bill that doesn't progress "sits" in committee.

gives power to the judicial system of courts

Article III of the Constitution

not allowing excessive bail or punishment

Eighth Amendment

search and seizure

Fourth Amendment

presided over the Constitutional Convention

George Washington

Which region of the country is a center of manufacturing, transportation, and agriculture?

Midwest

right to a speedy trial

Sixth Amendment

Mark the statement that is NOT true about the executive branch.

The executive branch interprets the federal laws and upholds or negates them.

can create, alter, or repeal laws

The legislative branch

When the Constitutional Convention laid out the framework for the executive branch, they wanted ________.

a chief executive who would be a diplomat among world leaders

If the president doesn't want to deal with a bill and lets it sit for ten days while Congress is in session, the bill is ____.

automatically put into law

Whenever the other house of Congress significantly alters a bill, a(n) _____________committee must be formed to reconcile the differences between the House and Senate versions of the bill.

conference

Ensuring __________means ensuring peacefulness or calmness.

domestic tranquility

Members of the _________are elected on the basis of the state's population at the most recent U.S. census, but each state has an equal number of __________.

house, senators

In which of the following ways is the Constitution a "working" document?

it can be amended

Federal courts have the right to __________laws that they feel are violating the Constitution.

nullify

negate, destroy

nullify

head of Armed Forces

president

interprets the meaning of laws and administrative rules and regulations

statutory construction

Which document was completed in 1787?

the Constitution


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