The Branches
The branch that interprets laws and punishes lawbreakers.
What is Judicial Branch?
A written change to the Constitution.
What is amendment?
The article that outlines the process for making amendments.
What is Article V?
A power a president has.
What is veto or to turn down proposed laws?
This document delegated these powers solely to the federal government.
What is the Constitution?
The branch that executes or carries out, the country's law.
What is Executive Branch?
Powers shared by the federal government and the states.
What are concurrent powers?
After an amendment has been ratified it becomes a part of this document.
What is the Constitution?
A court that can also become involved in lawmaking?
What is the Supreme Court?
Governs the people of the whole country.
What is the national government?
The branch of lawmaking.
What is Legislative Branch?
A system to ensure no branch becomes too powerful.
What are Checks and Balances?
A word if the people don't like the effects of an amendment.
What is repealed?
The friction needed for votes required when overriding a presidential veto.
What is two-thirds?
Governs people living in each state.
What is the state government?
The first branch discussed in the Constitution.
What is the Legislative Branch?
A refusal by the president or a governor to sign a bill.
What is Veto?
A number an amendment has to have to be ratified?
What is three fourths or 38?
Someone who can check the lawmaking power of congress.
Who is the President?
This government alone has the power to provide for the country's defense.
What is the Federal government?
The two houses Congress is made up of.
What is the Senate and the House of Representatives?
A system in which the decision of more than half the people is accepted by all.
What is majority rule?
The friction needed to propose an amendment in both houses.
What is two-thirds
The number of judges in the Supreme Court.
What is 9?
The powers that the Constitution specifically gave to the federal government?
What is delegated powers?