Roles of Government
The US Constitution of 1787 replaced this founding government document.
The branch of the federal government exerts indirect influence on domestic policy through review of federal and state LAWS and executive orders.
What is the judicial branch?
This government agency establishes rules and policies to protect workers from accidents on the job.
What is OSHA?
This level of court is charged with handling violations of the U.S. Constitution.
What is the federal level?
What are federal benefits like Medicare and Medicaid, paying of the public debt, and military spending?
This department of government hires, trains, and manages a large organization of foreign diplomats and runs overseas embassies.
What is the State Department?
This branch of the federal government shapes domestic policy through executive orders and through supervision of agencies such as the Treasury Department.
What is the executive branch?
This agency investigates and protects the American people from communicable diseases.
What is the CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?
Judges at this level are often elected rather than appointed.
What is the state court?
Social security and Medicare are two types of this kind of tax.
What is payroll tax?
In the event of a zombie apocalypse, these are the federal agencies in the U.S. that would intervene.
What are the FDA, CDC, Defense Department, Department of Homeland Security, CIA, and/or NSA?
This branch of federal government shapes domestic policy by passing laws.
What is the legislative branch?
This government agency regulates and inspects medications to protect the public.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
Each state's court system has been created by this.
What is the state's constitution?
This amendment authorized the taxing of income.
What is the 16th amendment?
Rural development is the specialty of this Cabinet-level agency.
Department of Agriculture
This personal representative appointed by the President represents the nation in matters of diplomacy.
Who is an ambassador?
This government agency works to protect citizens from items that they purchase that might be dangerous.
What is the Consumer Product Safety Commission?
Both federal and state courts can do this.
What is send certain cases to the U.S. Supreme Court?
This tax brings in the largest amount of revenue for the U.S.
What is income tax?
This Cabinet-level agency oversees the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
What is the Department of the Interior?
Foreign policy gives the President these powers.
What are the power to make treaties, appoint ambassadors, and use the military when necessary within the limitations imposed by the War Powers Act?
This shape best symbolizes the structure of a government bureaucracy.
What is a pyramid with the power flowing downward?
This occurs when a federal court invalidates an act of Congress by declaring it unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
The U.S. government finances its debt by doing this.
What is selling bonds?