The Three Branches
How many branches of government are there?
What are three?
Another name for the Legislative Branch.
What is Congress?
The leader of the Executive Branch.
Who is the President?
This branch explains the laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
Rules that people must follow.
What are laws?
This branch makes the laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
The two parts of Congress.
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
What the President does to a bill to make it a law.
What is signing the bill?
The highest court in the United States.
What is the Supreme Court?
A group that makes laws for the country.
What is Congress?
This branch carries out the laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
What Congress makes.
What are laws?
The word for when the President says no to a bill.
What is a veto?
What judges decide in court.
What are court cases?
A system that shares power between branches.
What is checks and balances?
This branch explains the laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
How many senators each state has.
What is two?
A group that helps the President run the country.
What is the Cabinet?
The most important set of rules for the United States.
What is the Constitution?
The leader of the Executive Branch.
Who is the President?
The system that keeps one branch from having too much power.
What is checks and balances?
One extra job Congress has besides making laws.
What is deciding how to spend money OR declaring war?
One department in the Executive Branch.
What is the Department of Education (or another department)?
What judges use to make fair decisions.
What are the laws and the Constitution?
A bill that has become a law.
What is a law?