This document is a Jeopardy-style game about the structure and powers of Congress. It contains questions and answers about topics like the bicameral legislature, powers of Congress like taxation, and checks on its power from the Supreme Court and presidential veto. The game covers the key elements of the US congressional system like committees, the legislative process, and oversight of the executive branch.
8. What are the enumerated
powers?
Powers specifically
mentioned in the
Constitution
9. What is the power to tax?
Enables Congress to raise
funds to maintain an
army and navy
10. What are concurrent power
Powers that can be
exercised both by the
federal government and
state governments
11. What is the Commerce Powe
The power most used by
Congress to extend its
power into everyday life
12. What are implied powers?
Those powers
contained in the
Necessary and Proper
clause in Article I of
the Constitution.
13. What is the need to
spread out the work
load?
The reason Congress
created its committee
structure
14. What is a conference
committee?
A type of joint committee
that works out the
differences between the
House’s and Senate’s
different versions of the
same bill
32. What is the
investigative power?
Enables Congress to look
into possible wrongdoing by agencies or
individuals
33. What is the power of the
purse, or appropriations
power?
How a congressional
committee can stop the
actions of a president or
executive agency by denying
funding
34. What is the Senate?
The group that tries a
president who has been
impeached