U.S. Legal System
Judicial, Legislative, Executive
What are the three branches of government?
What is the judicial branch?
The U.S. Congress makes up this branch of the federal government.
What is the legislative branch?
Law-making bodies in executive branch.
What are administrative agencies?
Supreme Law of the Land
What is the U.S. Constitution?
The type of law that a court produces.
What is a case, opinion, or decision?
A type of law that legislatures pass.
What is a statute?
Type of law passed by agencies.
Legislature of the federal government of the U.S.
What is Congress?
The two main court systems in the United States.
What are federal and state courts?
The two chambers of Congress.
What are House and Senate?
The name of one federal administrative agency.
What is (the EPA, IRS, Bureau of Indian Affairs, DOI, Department of Labor, etc)?
Highest Court in the federal judiciary of the United States.
What is the U.S. Supreme Court?
The three levels of courts you customarily find in state and federal jurisdictions.
What are trial, appellate, and supreme courts?
A proposal for a new law or change to an existing law.
What is a bill?
The name of one Oregon administrative agency.
What is (Department of Education, OLCC, Dept. of Revenue, Dept. of Agriculture, etc.)?
The head of state and head of government of the United States.
What is the U.S. President?
The number of sitting U.S. Supreme Court justices.
What is nine?
U.S. Senator from Oregon.
Who is Wyden, Merkley?
Head of the executive branch of the U.S. government.
Who is the President of the United States?