Legislative Branch
What is the main job of the legislative branch?
What is making laws?
Who is the head of the executive branch?
Who is the President?
What is the highest court in the United States?
What is the Supreme Court?
What is the purpose of checks and balances?
What is preventing any one branch from becoming too powerful?
What does "separation of powers" mean?
What is dividing government responsibilities among three branches?
How many houses make up Congress, and what are they called?
What are two, the Senate and the House of Representatives?
What is the main job of the executive branch?
What is enforcing laws?
What is the main job of the judicial branch?
What is interpreting laws?
How can the legislative branch check the President’s veto?
What is overriding it with a two-thirds vote?
Which branch has the power to declare war?
What is the legislative branch?
How many Senators does each state have?
What is two?
What is the term for the President rejecting a bill passed by Congress?
What is a veto?
How many justices are on the Supreme Court?
What is nine?
How can the judicial branch check the legislative branch?
What is declaring laws unconstitutional?
Which branch has the power to pardon people convicted of federal crimes?
What is the executive branch?
Which part of Congress is based on state population?
What is the House of Representatives?
Name one power the President has as Commander-in-Chief.
What is leading the military?
What is the term for the power of courts to declare laws unconstitutional?
What is judicial review?
What is one way the executive branch checks the judicial branch?
What is nominating judges?
Which branch has the power to interpret laws and the Constitution?
What is the judicial branch?
What power does Congress have to override a President’s veto?
What is a two-thirds vote in both houses?
What is the term for the President making agreements with other countries?
What is negotiating treaties?
Who appoints Supreme Court justices, and who confirms them?
Who are the President and the Senate?
What is one way the legislative branch checks the judicial branch?
What is approving or rejecting judicial nominations?
What document outlines the separation of powers in the United States?
What is the Constitution?