Legislative
This is the main job of the Legislative branch.
What is making laws?
This person is the head of the Executive branch.
Who is the President?
This is the highest court in the United States.
What is the Supreme Court?
This is the system that makes sure no one branch gets too powerful.
What are Checks and Balances?
These are the two parts that make up Congress.
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
This is where the President lives and works.
What is the White House?
This is the main job of the Judicial branch.
What is interpreting laws (deciding if they are fair/constitutional)?
These are the first three words of the Constitution.
What is "We the People"?
This is the building in Washington, D.C., where Congress meets.
What is the Capitol Building?
This person takes over if the President can no longer do their job.
Who is the Vice President?
This is the total number of justices who sit on the Supreme Court.
What is nine?
This word means "to carry out" or "to lead."
What is Executive?
Before a law becomes a law, it is called this.
What is a bill?
This is the President’s power to say "no" to a bill sent by Congress.
What is a veto?
This is the "rulebook" the Supreme Court uses to decide if a law is fair.
What is the Constitution?
This is a change or an addition made to the Constitution.
What is an amendment?
This is the total number of Senators in the U.S. government (2 for every state).
What is 100?
As leader of the military, the President holds this title.
What is Commander in Chief?
Unlike the President, Supreme Court justices can keep their jobs for this long.
What is for life?
If the Supreme Court decides a law goes against the Constitution, they call it this.
What is unconstitutional?