Branches & Terms
This leader is a king or queen.
What is a monarch.
The addition to the Constitution is called this.
What is an amendment.
Canada’s group similar to the U.S. Bill of Rights is called this.
What is the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Which branch decides questions about laws?
What is the Judicial Branch.
The name for an assembly that passes laws for a nation.
What is Parliament.
Which amendment gave women the right to vote?
What is the Nineteenth Amendment.
What are the two houses in Canada’s Parliament called?
What are the Senate and the House of Commons.
Who can make treaties with other countries?
What is the Federal Government?
This system divides power between the national government and state governments.
What is Federalism.
Which amendment gave African American men the right to vote?
What is the Fifteenth Amendment.
What makes up Canada’s Constitution?
What are The Constitutional Act of 1867, The Constitutional Act of 1982 and the unwritten customs and principles.
Who can collect taxes?
Who is both the Federal and State Governments.
A system in which each branch of government can limit the power of the other branches.
What is checks and balances.
What Amendment was added to grant citizenship and provide equal protection under the law to formerly enslaved people and their descendants?
What is the 14th Amendment.
Who is the head of state for Canada?
Who is the British monarch, or King or Queen.
Who runs local elections?
Who is the State Government.
The head of Canada’s government who leads the cabinet and is selected from Parliament.
Who is the Prime Minister.
Name one right and one responsibility of American citizens.
What is the right to freedom of speech, vote; one responsibility is obeying the law, jury duty.
Describe two ways that Canada’s government is different from that of the United States
What is
Canada’s head of government is the prime minister chosen by members of Parliament; the U.S. president is elected separately by the people
Canada’s head of state is the British monarch represented by the governor general; the U.S. head of state is the president,
parliament, congress
constitution 1 doc, contitution 3 docs
Who sets up public schools?
Who is the State Government.