vocabulary
legislative branch
What is the legislative branch?
The three branches of government
What are the legislative branch, executive branch, and the judicial branch of government
federal government powers
what are two powers that the federal government has?
The introduction to the constitution
what is the beginning of the constitution called?
amendment
What is an amendment?
executive branch
what is the executive branch?
The first branch of government
What is the legislative branch?
state government powers
what are two powers that the state government has?
the preamble in the constitution
what part of the constitution is the preamble?
a change in the constitution
What is a change in the constitution?
judicial branch
what is the judicial branch?
The second branch of government
what is the executive branch
shared powers between the federal and state governments
what are two powers that the federal and state government share?
3 words of the constitution
What are the first three words of the constitution?
the ways of processing an amendment
how many ways can you propose a constitution?
checks and balances
what are checks and balances?
The third branch of government
What is the judicial branch
another federal government power.
what is one more power that the federal government has?
the preamble of the constitution
what does the preamble of the constitution talk about?
states and ratification
how many of the states have to ratify the constitution?
provisions
what are provisions?
legislative branch
what is the role of the legislative branch?
another power state government has
what is one more power that the state government has?
the writer of the preamble
who wrote the preamble of the constitution
ratification
how many ways can you ratify the constitution