Branches of Government
This branch makes laws.
What is the legislative branch?
The President can do this to a law created by Congress.
What is veto?
A loose group of states working together with a weak central government.
What is a confederation?
These are the three levels of government.
What are federal, state, and local?
The introduction to the Constitution.
What is the preamble?
This branch enforces laws.
What is the executive branch?
Congress can override a veto with this fraction of both houses.
What is two-thirds?
The written plan for our government and the rules it must follow.
What is the Constitution?
The Georgia General Assembly belongs to this branch of state government.
What is the legislative branch?
These three words begin the preamble.
What is "We the People"?
This branch interprets laws as they relate to specific cases.
What is the judicial branch?
This branch can decide if a law is constitutional.
What is the judicial branch (the Supreme Court)?
When each side gives up something to reach an agreement.
What is a compromise?
This person is the leader of the executive branch in Georgia.
Who is the Governor?
The confederation could not collect these to pay its bills.
What are taxes?
Congress is made up of these two groups.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
The President nominates Supreme Court judges, and this branch votes to approve them.
What is Congress (the legislative branch)?
Dividing government power among separate branches.
What is separation of powers?
A mayor works like this branch of government.
What is the executive branch?
Leaders met in this city in 1787 to write the Constitution.
What is Philadelphia?
Congress passes a law, the President signs it, and a court explains what it means in a case. Name the three branches in that order.
What are legislative, executive, and judicial?
These are the two branches involved when a veto is overridden.
What are the executive and legislative branches?
A government where people elect representatives to make decisions for them.
What is a republic?
This idea is about sharing power between the national government and the state governments.
What is the federal system?
The Founders wrote the Constitution because the confederation was this.
What is too weak?