Branches
Jobs of the Offices
Bill Becomes Law Steps 1-5
Bill Becomes Law Steps 6-10
Bill of Rights
100
The three branches of government.
What are the executive, legislative, and judicial branches?
100
One job that the president might do in office.
What are sign bills into law, veto (reject bills), conduct foreign affairs, negotiate treaties, and is comander-in-chief of the armed forces (any one of these jobs)?
100
The first step for a bill to become a law.
What is an idea?
100
Who signs or vetos (rejects) a bill that has passed Congress (both the Senate and the House of Representatives)?
What is the president?
100
The Bill of Rights are the first 10 amendments of this document.
What is the Constitution (also known as the "laws of the land")?
200
The two parts of the legislative branch (also known as Congress).
What are the House of Representative and the Senate?
200
One job that a senator might do in office.
What are write and propose bills, serve on committees, collect and spend money from taxes (decide from whom and where the tax money should be spent), and declare war (with the House of Representatives) (any of these)?
200
After forming an idea, the next step for a bill to become a law.
What is writing a bill?
200
If a presidents signs a bill, the bill becomes this.
What is law?
200
The first amendment in the Bill of Rights protects your rights to freedom of speech and religion. Describe this right.
What is: Congress can't make any law about your religion, or stop you from practicing your religion, or keep you from saying whatever you want (as long as it can be proven), or publishing whatever you want (like in a newspaper or a book). And Congress can't stop you from meeting peacefully for a demonstration to ask the government to change something?
300
The courts are part of this branch of government.
What is the judical branch?
300
One job that a representative (House of Representative) might do in office?
What are write and propose bills, serve on committees, collect and spend money from taxes (decide from whom and where the tax money should be spent), and declare war (with the Senate) (any of these)?
300
After a bill is first written, the bill first goes here to be discussed and possibly revised.
What is a committee (in either the House of Representatives or the Senate where the bill originates)?
300
If the president does not want the bill to become law (rejects the bill), he will ___ the bill.
What is a veto?
300
The second amendment in the Bill of Rights protects your rights to bear arms (weapons). Describe this right.
What is: Congress can't stop people from having and carrying weapons? (Please note that there are laws that regulate who can purchase weapons, what type of weapons can be bought, and how they can be carried.)
400
The president is part of this branch of government.
What is the executive branch?
400
One job that a judge might do in office.
What are interpret laws and settle disagreements between people (any one of these)? (Also, judges on the Supreme Court can decide if laws agree with the Constitution and can be declared unconstitutional.)
400
After a bill leaves the committee, where does the bill go to for debate and voting?
What is Congress? (If the bill originated in the House of Representatives first, the bill would go to House first. If the bill originated in the Senate, then the bill would go to the Senate first?)
400
This happens if a president vetos a bill.
What is sends the bill back to Congress (both the Senate and the House of Representatives) or the bill can just die (if Congress decides not to fight the battle)?
400
The amendment in the Bill of Rights protects your right against illegal search. Describe this right.
What is: Nobody can search you, or your house, or your papers and things, unless they can prove to a judge that they have a good reason to think you have committed a crime (a search warrant issued by a judge is required)?
500
Analogy: Judicial is to courts as ________is to governor.
What is executive?
500
One job that the Missouri governor might do in office.
What are approve laws, veto laws, make sure laws are carried out, oversee building of roads, and oversee education (any one of these)?
500
If a bill (that originated in the Senate) passes the Senate, where does it go next?
What is the House of Representatives? (On the other hand, if the bill originated in the House of Representatives and passed, it would go to the Senate.)
500
If the president vetoes a bill. The bill can still become a law by......
What is sending the bill back to Congress?
500
The amendment in the Bill of Rights protects your rights if you are arrested for a crime and tried in court for your crime.
What is: the right to a fair and speedy trial, including a lawyer to defend you and jury trial made up of fair-minded citizens?
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