Branches of Government
This person is the head of the executive branch.
What is the president?
Money collected by the government to use for the common good.
What are taxes?
Wealthy, white, men.
What is the description of the people that wrote the Constitution?
The President saying NO to a bill.
What is a veto?
To work for the common good of all the people.
What is the purpose of the government?
These people are part of the judicial branch.
What are justices?
The government pays firefighters, police, and the military to protect us.
What is a use of tax money?
All laws should follow this.
What is the Constitution?
2/3 of Congress voting to pass a bill even if the president vetos it.
What is an override?
The government takes money from its citizens to help run the country.
What is collecting taxes?
The people in this branch create the laws.
What are Congress men and women?
A tax that you pay when you purchase something from the store.
What is a sales tax?
A written plan on how our country should run.
What is the reason or purpose of the US Constitution?
a citizen or a member of the government.
What is who can propose an idea for a new law?
The government doing something to help all people of its country.
What is for the "common good"?
Enforce the laws that are made.
What is the job of the president?
A tax that comes out of the money you earn.
What is an income tax?
Summer of 1787
What is when the Constitution was written?
Congress does not vote to pass a bill or the president vetos a bill.
What is "how a bill dies"?
A group of people that the government organizes and pays to defend our country.
What is the military?
The President can veto a bill, Congress can override the president, and the Supreme Court can throw out a law that is unconstitutional.
What is "checks and balances"?
A tax that is paid to help support people once they are too old to work.
What is a social security tax?
George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, & Alexander Hamilton.
What are the Founding Fathers?
A small group of congress men and women that study a bill then decide if it should go in front of the whole congress for a vote.
What is a special committee?
A type of government where the citizens vote for their representatives.
What is a democracy?