Local or State Government
Vocabulary
Purposes of Government
Branches
Miscellaneous
100
Makes laws about pets.
What is the local government?
100
A written plan for the government.
What a constitution?
100
Give one purpose for why the Mackinaw Bridge was built.
What is to provide services, look out for the common good and help solve problems?
100
This branch makes the laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
100
Our government separates power into this many branches.
What is 3 branches?
200
Takes care of the Mackinac Bridge.
What is the state government?
200
A government where people hold the power of government and choose leaders to make laws and decisions for them.
What is a republic?
200
Give one purpose for why the government repairs Michigan roads.
What is to provide services, keep people safe and look out for the common good?
200
This branch enforces laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
200
The kind of government we have.
What is a republic?
300
Provides fire stations.
What is the local government?
300
When people work together for the benefit of everybody.
What is the common good?
300
Give two purposes for why the governments provide police.
What is to keep people safe, make and enforce laws, help solve problems, look out for the common good, protect individual rights?
300
The Governor is the head of this branch.
What is the Executive Branch?
300
The person in charge of the courts.
Who is the judge?
400
Makes laws about marriage.
What is the state government
400
A group of citizens who listen to the evidence at a trial and decide if the law has been broken.
What is a jury?
400
Things one person is entitled to have or to do.
What is individual rights?
400
This branch interprets laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
400
The Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion are examples of this.
What are Rights?
500
Provides police protection.
What is local and state government?
500
When a crime or conflict is handled in a court.
What is a trial?
500
These are the purposes of government. (6)
What is to keep people safe, make and enforce laws, provide services, look out for the common good, protect individual rights, help solve problems?
500
These 2 groups run the Legislative Branch
Who are the House of Representatives and Senators?
500
The government of our country.
What is national government?
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