Legislative Branch
The Legislative Branch does this.
What is making all the laws and declaring wars?
The Executive Branch does this.
What is enforcing the laws that the Legislative branch authorizes?
The Judicial Branch does this.
What is interpreting laws and applying them in specific cases?
Checks and Balances do this.
What is making sure no branch becomes too powerful?
The first President of the USA was this.
Who was George Washington?
The Legislative Branch is made up of this.
What is Congress?
The Executive Branch is made up of this.
What is the President, the Vice President, the Cabinet, and the executive departments?
The Judicial Branch is made up of this.
What is the Supreme Court?
Checks and Balances do this to the other branches.
What is limiting the actions of the other branches?
True or false - the first US government is the same as today's government.
What is false?
The Congress is made up of these two entities.
What is the Senate and House of Representatives?
The President does this.
What is leading the nation, having the power to make treaties, and acting as Commander-in-Chief of all the armed forces?
The Supreme Court is made out of these.
What are the judges?
Checks and Balances are due to this US governmental construct.
What is all three branches?
This was the first constitution of the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The Senate does this.
What approves treaties and conducts impeachment trials?
The Vice President does this.
Who would be President if the President dies while in office and also has a role to break tie votes?
The judges do this.
Who is holding office for life and is interpreting laws?
Congress overriding a veto with two-thirds majority shows this.
What is an example of Checks and Balances?
The Articles of Confederation were replaced by this document in 1789.
What is the US Constitution?
The House of Representatives does this.
What is making and passing federal laws?
The Cabinet does this.
What is offering opinions and guidance to the president and leads the various executive departments?
The Supreme Court judges are from this branch.
What is the Judicial Branch?
Impeaching or removing a president shows this.
What is an example of Checks and Balances?
The official date that the government began its operations under the US Constitution.
What is March 4, 1789?