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The Three Branches
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Vocabulary
100
This branch of government writes laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
100
These articles of the Constitution create the three branches of government.
What is Article I, Article II, and Article III?
100
This is the first paragraph of the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
100
These are the powers of Congress (name 3).
What is collect taxes, borrow money, pay debts, make rules on how to become citizens, regulate commerce, coin money, punish counterfeiters, establish post offices, give patents, create lower federal courts, punish pirates, and declare war?
100
This term means law making.
What is legislative?
200
This branch executes or enforces the laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
200
This is what Article V of the Constitution tells you about.
What is how to amend or change the Constitution?
200
These are the kind of cases that the Supreme Court deal with.
What are cases that interpret federal law (what they mean and if they've been followed)?
200
These are the responsibilities of the President (name 2).
What are act as commander in chief, maintain a cabinet of advisors, grant pardons, negotiate treaties, appoint positions, and make a state of the union address?
200
This term means enforce or carry out laws.
What is executes?
300
This branch interprets the laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
300
This is what Article IV of the Constitution states.
What is how the states interact with one another?
300
These are the qualifications to become a US Representative or Senator.
Representative: 25 years old, US citizen for 7 years, live in the state you represent Senator: 30 years old, US citizen for 9 years, live in the state you represent
300
These are two rules that states have to follow when interacting with other states.
What is respect the laws of other states, extradition, and have a representative form of state government?
300
This term means an addition or change to the Constitution.
What is an amendment?
400
These are the two chambers or parts of Congress/the Legislative Branch.
What is the House of Representatives and the Senate?
400
This is what VII the Constitution talks about.
What are the steps taken to ratify the Constitution?
400
These are the term lengths for Representatives, Senators, Presidents, and Supreme Court Judges.
Representative: 2 years Senator: 6 years President: 4 years Judge: life
400
This is how an amendment is added to the Constitution (2 steps).
What is a congressional vote or congressional convention then a state legislature vote or special state convention?
400
This is what the first ten amendments to the Constitution are called.
What is the Bill of Rights?
500
These people/groups of people make up the Executive Branch.
What is the president, the vice president, and cabinet?
500
This is what Article VI of the Constitution explains.
What is that federal law comes before state law?
500
This is what the preamble says.
We the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility. Provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and ensure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. Do ordain and establish this constitution of the United States of America.
500
This is how many states had to agree before the Constitution went into effect.
What is 9/13 states?
500
This term means that the national government shares power with the state governments.
What is federalism?