Branches & Roles
This branch enforces laws and is led by the President.
What is the Executive Branch?
The Constitution was written in this year: 1787 or 1776?
What is 1787?
The Bill of Rights is the first ____ amendments to the Constitution.
What is ten?
Finish this phrase from the Pledge: “I pledge __________ to the flag.”
What is "Allegiance"?
This is the number of states in the USA.
What is fifty?
This branch makes laws and includes the Senate and the House of Representatives.
What is the Legislative Branch?
The short introduction to the Constitution that begins “We the People” is called the ____.
This amendment protects freedom of speech, religion, and press?
What is the first amendment?
The Pledge says the nation is “one ____ under God, indivisible.” What word fills the blank?
What is "Nation"?
This is the age at which citizens can vote.
What is twenty-one?
This branch interprets laws and includes the Supreme Court.
What is the Judicial Branch?
This is the middle section of the Constitution. This section explains how the government works.
What are the seven articles?
This amendment gives the right to a fair and speedy trial?
What is the sixth amendment?
How many stripes are on the U.S. flag and what do they represent?
This is the number of justices serving on the Supreme Court at any given time.
What is 9?
This branch of the government enforces laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
What do amendments do to the Constitution?
What are making changes?
This amendment gives people the right to trial by jury.
What is the seventh amendment?
This is a country with elected representatives and leaders like a president rather than a king or queen.
What is a republic?
This is the document written in 1776 in which the United States officially told Great Britain they wanted to be its own country.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
What is constitutional (or unconstitutional)?
This is the number of amendments to the Constitution.
What is twenty-seven?
This is the number of amendments originally proposed for the Bill of Rights.
What is twelve?
This means impossible to separate or divide.
What is "indivisible"?
What is eight?