Constitution
Name the branches of the US Federal government
Legislative, Executive and Judicial
7
citizens writing to Senators or Representatives
What is how the process of making a law is started
Law of the land before the Constitution
What is the Articles of the Confederation
This branch has to enforce the laws
What is Executive Branch?
The branch of government enforces the laws.
What is the Executive Branch
The 2nd Amendment
What is the Right to Bear Arms?
House of Representatives or Senate, house of origin
Where a bill is written?
The right to remain silent
What is the 5th amendment?
This branch has the job of writing the laws
What is legislative branch?
Each branch holds some power over the other two
What is Checks and Balances?
The 6th amendment
What is the right to a speedy trial?
Power of the president if the do not want a bill to be law
What is a veto
Sam is 27 years old and is running for reelection 2 years after being in office.
What is a Representative
Which branch gets to interpret the laws made by the legislative branch?
What is the Judicial Branch?
This branch of the national government interprets the laws?
What is judicial?
The Right to a Jury
What is the 7th Amendment?
2/3 of Congress vote yes
How a bill becomes a law if the president vetoes the law
The 3rd amendment
What is the protection against soldiers claiming your home?
This constitutional principle is the idea that each branch has different powers, so no one branch has too much power.
What is the separation of powers?
What are checks and balances?
The 9th Amendment
What is the protection against our government claiming we don't have a right just because it's not in the constitution
A system of government where power is shared between the central government and the state government.
What is federalism?
determines if the law is Constitutional
Judicial Branch
Julia is 35 years old. She has lived in the US for 20 years. She has been a citizen for 18 years. Julia wants to run for president of the United States. Tell why she can or can not run become president.
She can not become president because she has been a citizen for only 18 years. To be president she needs to be a natural born citizen.