Branches #1
What Branch Carries Out the Laws?
Executive
The Legislative Branch Makes what for the U.S.A?
Laws
Who the Interprets the Law
Judicial Branch
The framers developed a system that would enable each branch of the government to limit the power of the other two branches. This system is called what?
Checks and Balances.
What document says that only the federal government can print money?
The U.S. Constitution
What Article of the Constitution describes the executive branch?
II or Two
What Article of the Constitution gives the power to make laws to the legislative branch of government.
Article I
What Article of the Constitution gives the basic framework of the judicial branch and establishes the country’s highest court, the Supreme Court.
Article III
______ allow one branch of government to block the actions of another branch.
Checks
The Framers expected who to take part in their own government and to hold leaders responsible for their actions.
The people
What two things keep any one branch of the federal government from being too strong.
Checks and Balances
Under what amendment does it describe about the president. serves a four-year term, a president may be re elected only once. (Total of 8 years)
Under the Twenty-second Amendment
Can any other laws or states conflict with the Constitution?
No, The framers intended for the Constitution to be the “supreme Law of the Land,” meaning that no other laws or actions by the government or by any state can conflict with the Constitution
To impeach: means to do what?
To impeach: means to formally accuse the president of the crimes specified in the Constitution.
How many changes have been suggested to change the constitution over the years?
More than 10,000
Only who can decide how to spend the money raised through taxes. Other congressional powers include the power to raise an army and navy, to declare war, to pay government debts, and to grant citizenship.
Congress
The Preamble - As the first three words of the Preamble are ____ _____ _______, the Constitution’s authority comes directly from the people, not the states.
"We The People"
What is one way some ways citizens participate in their government is?
by serving on a jury, obeying laws, registering with the Selective Service when they turn 18, and paying taxes.
What allow each branch of the government to have some role in the actions and power of the other branches
Balances
This provision gives the national government the power to regulate interstate commerce.
Commerce Clause
The Constitution created a _______, or two-part, national legislature called Congress.
bicameral
The two parts, or houses, of Congress are what?
The House of Representatives and the Senate.
What must amendments have done to them before they can part of the U.S. constitution?
They must be ratified before it can become part of the Constitution.
What Article describes two ways in which changes, called amendments, can be added to the Constitution.
Article V
There has been many suggestions to change the constitution, how many have succeeded in changing the document?
Only 27 suggestions have ever been approved.