Rights and Responsibilities
When you grow up, you can vote in an election for who should be the president or your local leader
What is a right?
The three branches of government
What is Legislative, Executive, and Judicial?
Rule or Law: Raise your hand before speaking.
This helps ensure what in the classroom...
Rule-
Everyone stays organized and ensures everyone has a chance to speak
This is the title of the leader of our local government
What is Mayor?
The Preamble is part of this important U.S. document and starts with these three words
What is The Constitution and "We the People"?
Working on making your community a better place by taking action and trying to solve problems to help the common good
What is a responsibility?
The Executive branch has this responsibility
What is enforcing the law?
Rule or Law: You must wear a helmet when riding a bike and look both ways before crossing.
This helps by...
Rule-
Keeping people safe
This is the title of the leader of our state government
What is Governor?
There are five freedoms in the First Amendment, list them all
What is the freedom of speech, assembly, petition, press, and religion?
The term that means to take responsibility for your words and actions
What is accountability?
The branch of government that writes or makes the laws
What is the Legislative Branch?
Rule or Law: Buses must stop at a railroad crossing to listen and look for an oncoming train.
This helps...
Law-
This helps keep students on the bus safe and mindful of potential danger
Local buildings such as schools and community centers can become a location for voting. That location is then called...
What is a polling station?
This is what happens when the President of the U.S. denies a bill in becoming a law
What is a veto?
There is a difference between a right and a responsibility...
(Ms. Lin decides based on response)
The Judicial Branch is made up of this major government group
What is The Supreme Court?
Rules are set and made by _________, while laws are created by the ____________.
What are citizens and government?
These people elect your local and state government officials
What are citizens?
This is a phrase from the Declaration of Independence that describes fundamental rights that all people should have when they're born in the U.S. citizens
What is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Members of local ___________ have _________ and __________________.
What are communities, rights, and responsibilities?
This system provides each branch of government with individual powers to check the other branches and prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful
What are Checks and Balances?
Laws promote _______, keep us ________, and protect our _________.
What is order, safe, and rights?
This is the smallest level of government that oversees towns
What is local government?
This is the year our founding fathers all sat down to write a list of principles that's known the world around
What is 1787?