Government Pre-Quiz
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- 2 types of votes for president
- popular, electoral
- # of votes per person
- 1
- # of votes for CA
- 55
- # of votes for VT
- 3
- How many major political parties in the US
- 2
- 3rd parties in the US
- Green, Independent, Libertarian, Socialist, Reform, Constitution
- Chairman of the Federal Reserve
- Bernanke
- Secretary of the Treasury
- Paulson
- Secretary of State
- Rice
- Secretary of Defense
- Rumsfeld
- President's National Security Advisor
- Hadley
- Head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Pace
- Director of the CIA
- Hayden
- CA's US House of Representative
- Rohrbacher
- CA's US Senators
- Boxer, Feinstein
- Local representative in the CA House (Assembly)
- Karnette
- Local representative in the CA Senate
- Vincent
- Which party controls the 1)US House 2)US Senate 3)the Presidency
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1) Republican
2) Republican
3) Republican - Which party controls the 1)CA House 2)CA Senate 3)the Governorship
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1) Democrat
2) Democrat
3) Republican - Governor of CA
- Schwarzenegger
- Lieutenant Governor
- Bustamente
- President of the US
- George W. Bush
- # of Presidents so far
- 43
- Vice President of the US
- Cheney
- Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee
- Warner
- Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
- Lugar
- Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee
- Hunter
- Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee
- Thomas
- 3 branches of government
- legislative, judicial, executive
- # of US Constitutional Amendments
- 27
- 4 ways to amend US constitution
- 2/3 congress, 3/4 state, 2/3 state legislature, 3/4 ratification convention
- Topic of the last amendment added
- congressional pay
- Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court
- Roberts
- Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court appointed/elected?
- appointed by president Bush
- Associate Justices of the Supreme Court
- Alito, Souter, Stevens, Scalia, Kennedy, Breyes, Ginsburg, Thomas
- US Surgeon General
- Carmena
- US Attorney General
- Gonzales
- US Solicitor General
- Clement
- Congressmember with a medical license who saved a life
- Frist
- where revenue bills always begin
- House
- Authors of the Federalist papers
- Madison, John Jay, Hamilton
- 2 more important Federalist papers
- 10, 51
- Last 3 presidents before current president
- Regan, Bush, Clinton
- 2 candidates for president
- Hilary Clinton, George Allen
- # of US House of Representatives from CA
- 53
- Determining factor in House of Representatives #
- population
- # of Senators per state
- 2
- # of total Senators
- 100
- Voting method when you are not near home
- absentee ballot
- Supreme law of the United States
- constitution
- Age at which you are legally responsible for your own actions
- 18
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Name the document:
"We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union..." - preamble of the constitution
- City in which Constitution was written
- Philadelphia
- Vice president and president candidate in 2004
- Edwards, Kerry
- Author of the Constitution
- Madison
- city where Abraham Lincoln lived
- Springfield, Illinois
- Founder of Microsoft
- Bill Gates
- 2nd richers person in the country
- Buffett
- 2 rights 5th Amendment protests
-
right to remain silent, right to an attorney
(double jeopardy, due process) - 1st amendment rights
- free speech, religion, press, assembly, petition
- Qualifications to be president
- born in US, at least 35 years old, 14 years living in the US
- Who breaks ties in the Senate
- vice president
- Speaker of the House
- Hastert
- House Majority Leader
- Boehner
- House Majority Whip
- Blunt
- House Minority Leader
- Pelosi
- Director of Homeland Security
- Chertoff
- Senate Majority Leader
- Frist
- Senate Minority Leader
- Reid
- US Secretary of Education
- Spellings
- LA's major
- Villaraigrossa
- President's Summer "White House"
- Crawford Ranch
- Event which created the most recent cabinet department
- 9/11
- 1st 3 positions to take over from president
- vice president, speaker of the house, senate president pro tempor
- country which restricts campaign ads and public surveys 8 days before election
- Mexico
- Latest topic of a proposed amendment
- gay marriage, flag burning
- coin which costs government more to mint that its spending value
- penny
- Group desiring to exempt themselves from labor laws despite order bt the Nation Labor Relations Board
- Native Americans
- Organization which cut crime in half this past summer in New Orleans
- national guard
- State with 201-year-old law barring unmarried couples from living together, ruled unconstitutional by state judge
- North Carolina
- Nickname for country's most expensive civil works project
- Big Dig
- Town where Cindy Sheehan bought property
- Crawford, Texas
- Legal effect of bringing ashore illegal Cuban immigrants to testify against smuggler
- citizenship
- Which state faces a challenge about their election process
- New Hampshire
- Name one person, other than the Governor, who is running
- Angelides
- Type of box that has declined precipitously since 9/11
- mail box
- Like the US in 2000, this country suffered a close controversial election which ended in a partial recount and a subsequent ruling
- Mexico
- What has the CA legislature agreed to give illegal immigrants
- college aid
- To what or whom do military recruits take an oath
- Constitution
- Most recent CA governor to suffer a recall
- Davis
- Bush 43's political strategist
- Rove
- New Orlean's mayor
- Nagin
- Democratic Senator in CT who lost in primary because of Iray war
- Lieberman