3 Branches of Gov.
Checks & Balances
State or Local Gov.
Quick Questions
Facts
100

The 3 branches of government

What are Judicial, Legislative, and Executive?

100

These branches are checking and balancing each other:

Veto legislation; Call special sessions

Override veto; Impeach officials

What are the Legislative and Executive branches?

100

This type of government can conduct elections

What is the State Government?

100

This branch has the Congress.

What is Legislative?

100

This is how a Supreme Court justice can lose his job.

What is impeachment?

200

This branch carries out and enforces the laws.

What is the Executive Branch?

200

These branches are checking and balancing each other:

Appoints some court officials

Reviews executive orders

What are the Executive and Judicial branches?

200

This type of government collects rates, fees, and rents

What is the Local Government?

200

This is how many votes it takes for the two houses to make a bill after it has been vetoed.

What is two-thirds?

200

This is how the two houses in Congress were made.

What is The Great Compromise?

300

This branch is in charge of deciding the meaning of laws, how to apply them to real situations, and whether the laws break the Constitution.

What is the Judicial Branch?

300

These branches are checking and balancing each other:

Can propose constitutional changes

Determines whether laws are constitutional

What are the Legislative and Judicial branches?

300

This type of government constructs roads and drainages

What is the Local Government?

300

This is to make changes to a law.

What is amend?

300

This branch can veto laws.

What is Executive?

400

This branch makes all laws, declares wars, regulates interstate and foreign commerce, and controls taxing and spending policies.

What is the Legislative Branch?

400

This system allows each branch to amend or veto acts of another branch to prevent any one branch from having too much power.

What is checks and balances?

400

This type of government can ratify amendments

What is the State Government?

400

This is to make sure all branches have the same amount of power.

What are checks and balances?

400

The president serves on this branch.


What is Executive?

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