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A group that makes laws at the local level.
What is a council?
100
The branch of government that is made up of courts.
What is the judicial branch?
100
Another word for freedom.
What is liberty?
100
A government run by its citizens.
What is a democracy?
100
The president's rejection of a bill.
What is a veto?
200
Speed limits are an example of these, that the government makes to keep people safe.
What are laws?
200
The executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government can be found at these levels of government.
What are local, state, and national?
200
This branch of government as the MOST power.
What is no branch has more power than any other? (A bit of a trick question!)
200
This is the way that a person usually becomes a leader in the United States government.
What is the citizens vote them into office?
200
The head of the executive branch at the local level of government is called this.
What is a mayor?
300
This was written to establish a new plan for government.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
300
This branch of government enforces and carries out the laws of the United States.
What is executive?
300
The state government and national government are similar because they both have one of these.
What is a constitution?
300
The highest law in our country is this.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
300
This is an example of a service that the government provides for it's citizens.
What is buses, fire departments, police departments, etc.?
400
The name of the building where the president lives.
What is the White House?
400
The White House is located here.
What is Washington, D.C.?
400
The person who lives and works in the White House.
What is the president of the United States?
400
The president of the United States is the leader of this branch of government.
What is executive?
400
The name of the system that allows each branch of government to check the actions of the others.
What is checks and balances?
500
Two ways that local government can pay for things.
What are collecting taxes and getting money from the state government?
500
Name the 3 branches of government.
What are executive, judicial, and legislative?
500
The leader of the executive branch at the state level.
What is a governor?
500
Taken every ten years by the national government to count the population.
What is a census?
500
Money is printed at this level of government.
What is the national level?
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