Levels of Gov.
The level of government that covers Eureka and Woodford County.
What is the Local level?
Branch that creates laws, approves Presidential appointees, and can impeach officials.
What is the Legislative Branch?
The document that is the plan for our government.
What is the Constitution?
Senate + House of Representatives =
What is Congress?
The first President.
Who was George Washington?
The level of government that covers Illinois.
What is the State level?
Branch that meets with other countries, heads the military, and makes sure laws are enforced?
What is the Executive Branch?
The group who wrote the constitution is often called this.
One job of Congress:
Command Military
Meet with leaders of other countries
Decide what taxes are paid
What is decide what taxes are paid?
The 16th President and President during the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The level of government that covers the USA.
What is the National level?
Branch that judges the constitutionality of laws.
Who was James Madison?
Document that declared our desire to be free of English rule and started the Revolutionary War.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Our current President.
Who is Joe Biden?
The Executive of the Local level.
Who is the mayor (Eric Lind)?
The ability to veto a bill is given to which branch?
What is the Executive Branch?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are called this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
What is 2?
The President's advisors are collectively called this.
What is the Cabinet?
The Executive of the National Level.
Who is the President (Joe Biden), Vice-President (Kamala Harris), and the Cabinet?
This branch of government has the most power or more power over the other branches.
What is NONE of them?
There is a BALANCE OF POWER in the branches.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of ...
What is the Preamble to the Constitution?
The USA's type of government.
What is a democratic republic?
(Or constitutional republic.) We elect our officials and they represent the people.
The 40th President was from Illinois and attended Eureka College.
Who was Ronald Reagan?