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- 4. The Constitution names the vice president of the United States as the president of the Senate. In addition to serving as presiding officer, the vice president has the sole power to break a tie vote in the Senate and formally presides over the receiving and counting of electoral ballots cast in presidential elections.
- 6. The Senate is composed of 100 Senators, 2 for each state. Until the ratification of the 17th Amendment in 1913, Senators were chosen by state legislatures, not by popular vote. Since then, they have been elected to six-year terms by the people of each state.
- 9. Madison is known for its superb selection of craft beverages, featured at events like: Great Taste of the Midwest, Craft Beer Week and Isthmus Beer & Cheese Festival. The Old Fashioned in Downtown Madison was voted as having Wisconsin's Best Cheese Curds. Madison is home to several James Beard award winners.
- 10. The President is responsible for implementing and enforcing the laws written by Congress and, to that end, appoints the heads of the federal agencies, including the Cabinet. The Vice President is also part of the Executive Branch, ready to assume the Presidency should the need arise.
- 11. The House of Representatives is made up of 435 elected members, divided among the 50 states in proportion to their total population. In addition, there are 6 non-voting members, representing the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and four other territories of the United States.
- 12. As the final arbiter of the law, the Court is charged with ensuring the American people the promise of equal justice under law and, thereby, also functions as guardian and interpreter of the Constitution. The Supreme Court is "distinctly American in concept and function," as Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes observed.
- 14. outlined a strong national government with three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial
- 15. What Does Bicameral Mean? Bicameral literally means "two chambers," and in practice refers to a government structure involving two houses, or two legislative bodies, that are separate in deliberation from one another.
- 16. made up of the House and Senate, known collectively as the Congress
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- 1. began with a light breeze, a cloudless sky, and a spirit of celebration. On that day, two hundred members of Congress boarded a special train for a journey to Philadelphia to celebrate a singular congressional anniversary.
- 2. The state Constitution vests the judicial power of California in the Supreme Court, Courts of Appeal, and superior courts. The Constitution also provides for the formation and functions of the Judicial Council, the policymaking body for the judicial branch. COURT STRUCTURE. Supreme Court.
- 3. the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain.
- 5. This includes the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the Secretary of State, the State Treasurer, and the State Auditor. The departments of the executive branch that have elected department heads are Agriculture, Insurance, Justice, Labor, and Public Instruction.
- 7. Congress is the legislative branch of the federal government that represents the American people and makes the nation's laws. It shares power with the executive branch, led by the president, and the judicial branch, whose highest body is the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 8. the supreme law of the United States of America
- 10. an introduction to the highest law of the land
- 13. designed to protect the security and power of the small states by limiting each state to one vote in Congress, as under the Articles of Confederation