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200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 By the Numbers The Powers That Be House Century Club Meet the Pres
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By The Numbers The formula used to determine the number of senators in the US Senate
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By The Numbers What is 2 per state? see Article I, Section 3, Clause 1
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By The Numbers The number of representatives in the House of Representatives
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By The Numbers What is 435? Click here for map showing apportionment by statehere
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By The Numbers The number of votes needed to win the presidency Daily Double
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By The Numbers What is 270? See Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 and Amendment XII; click here for electoral college maphere
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By The Numbers Originally set at $6 per day, it increased to $157,000 per year in 2004
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By The Numbers What are congressional salaries? Click here for a timeline of congressional pay from the founding to the near futurehere
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By The Numbers In the original Constitution, the census counts all free persons, excluding Indians not taxed, and adds this fraction “of all other Persons”
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By The Numbers What is 3/5ths? See Article I, Section 2, Clause 3
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The Powers that Be According to the Constitution, it alone has the power to declare war
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The Powers that Be What is Congress? See Article I, Section 8, Clause 11
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The Powers that Be According to the Constitution it alone has the power to “make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces”
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The Powers that Be What is Congress? See Article I, Section 8, Clause 14
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The Powers that Be According to the Constitution it alone has the power to constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court
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The Powers that Be What is Congress? See Article I, Section 8, Clause 9
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The Powers that Be According to the Constitution it alone has the power to “make Rules concerning Captures on land and water”
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The Powers that Be What is Congress? See Article I, Section 8, Clause 11
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The Powers that Be According to the Constitution it alone has the power “to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia...”
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The Powers that Be What is Congress? See Article I, Section 8, Clause 16
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House They elect members of the House of Representatives
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House Who are the people? See Article I, Section 2, Clause 1
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House 25 years old, 7 years a citizen of the United States, and resident of the state
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House What are the qualifications for members of the House? See Article I, Section 2, Clause 2
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House The presiding officer of the House of Representatives
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House Who is the Speaker of the House? See Article I, Section 2, Clause 5
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House According to the Constitution, all bills of this type must originate in the House of Representatives
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House What are revenue (i.e, tax) bills? See Article I, Section 7, clause 1
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House The size of the New Jersey delegation in the House of Representatives
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House What is 13? Click here for printable maps of the districtshere
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Century Club 30 years old, 9 Years a citizen of the United States, and an inhabitant of the state for which he/she has been chosen
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Century Club What are the qualifications to be a senator? See Article I, Section 3, clause 3
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Century Club The term used to describe the Senate’s role in approving presidential nominations to the cabinet and the courts
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Century Club What is “advice and consent”? See Article II, Section 2, clause 2
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Century Club Until the adoption of the 17th Amendment in 1913, they elected senators
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Century Club What are state legislatures? See Article I, Section 3, clause 1
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Century Club The President of the Senate
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Century Club Who is the Vice President? See Article I, Section 3, clause 4
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Century Club The Senate is responsible for this step in the impeachment process
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Century Club What is conducting the trial of impeachment? See Article I, Section 3, clause 6
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Meet the Pres 35 years old, a natural born citizen, and 14 year resident within the U.S.
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Meet the Pres What are the qualification to be elected president? See Article II, Section 1, clause 5
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Meet the Pres Originally set at $25,000, it is now $400,000 plus a $50,000 tax free expense account, all paid from the national treasury.
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Meet the Pres What is the salary of the president? Click here for a timeline of presidential salaryhere
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Meet the Pres They elect the president and the vice president
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Meet the Pres Who are the electors in the Electoral College? See Article II, Section I, clause 2
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Meet the Pres Treason, bribery, or “other high Crimes and Misdemeanors”
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Meet the Pres What are the offenses warranting impeachment? See Article II, Section 4
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Meet the Pres The State Department, the Treasury Department, the War Department, and the Department of Justice
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Meet the Pres What were the four original cabinet departments? click here for an artist’s rendering of the Washington’s cabinet.here
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400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000 200 Garden State DonkeysNewsElephants Spare Change
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Garden State
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Who is governor Jon Corzine?
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Garden State New Jersey is subdivided into this number of counties
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Garden State What is 21?
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Garden State In December 2007, New Jersey became the first state since 1976 to ban this practice.
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Garden State What is the death penalty?
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Garden State The names of the two chambers in the New Jersey legislature Daily Double
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Garden State What is the General Assembly and the Senate?
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Garden State At $3 billion, New Jersey began 2008 with the third largest of these in the nation, ranking just behind California and New York
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Garden State What is a budget deficit?
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Donkeys
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Who is Hillary Clinton?
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Donkeys
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Who is Barack Obama?
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Donkeys
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Who is John Edwards?
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Donkeys
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Who is Dennis Kucinich?
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Donkeys
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Who is Bill Richardson?
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News President Bush just returned from visiting this part of the world, only the second time he has been there since taking office
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News What is Israel and the Middle East?
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News New Jersey and 19 other states held their presidential primaries on this date
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News What is February 5th?
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News According to the Department of Homeland Security, construction for this project is set to begin by the end of this year Daily Double
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News What is the Proposed Tactical Infrastructure (or wall) separating the United States and Mexico?
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News These two countries recently suffered catastrophic natural disasters, with death tolls in the tens of thousands
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News What are China and Myanmar
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News 4,079
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News What is the total number of American fatalities in the war in Iraq as of 17 May 2008?
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Elephants
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Who is Rudy Guliani?
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Elephants
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Who is Fred Thompson?
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Elephants
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Who is John McCain?
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Elephants
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Who is Mitt Romney?
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Elephants
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Who is Mike Huckabee?
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Spare Change This amendment guarantees freedom of speech, of the press, of religion, and of the people to peaceably assemble
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Spare Change What is the First Amendment?
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Spare Change This amendment ended slavery
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Spare Change What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
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Spare Change This amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment
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Spare Change What is the Eighth?
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Spare Change This amendment guarantees that “no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities” of US citizens
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Spare Change What is the Fourteenth?
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Spare Change This amendment allows states to decide whether the distribution, sale, and possession of alcoholic beverages is legal
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Spare Change What is the Twenty-First?
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Dates to Remember September 17, 1787 Final Jeopardy
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What is the date the Constitutional Convention adopted the Constitution? Final Jeopardy
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