The Three Branches
This Branch Makes the laws.
What is The Legislative Branch?
Congress is made up of these two parts.
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
This person is the head of the Executive Branch.
What is the President?
This is the highest court in the land.
What is the Supreme Court?
Powers not given to the federal government belong to these.
What are the states?
This branch carries out or enforces the laws.
What is The Executive Branch?
Each State has this many U.S. Senators.
What is 2?
This person is second in line to the presidency.
Who is the Vice President?
There are this many justices on the Supreme Court.
What is 9?
Examples of state powers include these two things.
What are education and marriage laws?
This branch interprets the laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
The number of Representatives from each state is based on this.
What is population?
The President must be at least this age.
What is 35?
Supreme Court justices serve for this length of time.
What is for life?
The Bill of Rights was created because people didn’t want this kind of government.
What is a too-powerful central government or tyranny?
The President, Vice President, and Cabinet are part of this branch.
What is the Executive Branch?
The idea of a two-part Congress came from this agreement.
What is The Great Compromise?
The President can make these with other countries if 2/3 of the Senate agrees.
What are treaties?
The Supreme Court decides this about laws.
What is their constitutionality?
The President earns this annual salary.
What is $400,000 per year?
This system, which divides power among three branches, prevents one branch from becoming too powerful.
What is checks and balances?
Congress must meet at least this often, usually beginning in January.
What is once a year?
The line of succession goes: President, Vice President, Speaker of the House, President Pro Tempore, Secretary of State, and then this group.
What is the Cabinet?
True or False: The Supreme Court decides guilt or innocence.
What is false?
The Vice President earns this amount per year.
What is $235,100 per year?