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What is..
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Congress has the power to pass laws, but the ______ can veto those laws.
What is the president.
100
Separation of Powers
What is the constitutional doctrine of dividing governmental power among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches
100
Article I does what?
What is gives Congress the power to make the laws.
200
The president can make treaties, but the _______ must approve them.
What is the Senate.
200
Checks and Balances
What is the constitutional doctrine in which each branch of government shares some of the powers of the other branches in order to limit their actions
200
Article II does what?
What is gives the president the power to enforce the laws
300
What establishes a system of separation of powers among the three branches of government
What is The Constitution
300
What are the three branches that the U.S. government divided into?
What is legislative, executive, and judicial
300
Article III does what?
What is gives the judiciary the power to interpret the laws
400
Who selects judges?
What is the president and the Senate.
400
What is supposed to have created a government of separated powers in 1787?
What is the constitutional convention
400
What does Checks and Balances do?
What is it makes it so each branch of government shares some of the powers of the other branches in order to limit their actions
500
Who said “Ambition must be made to counter ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place.”
What is James Madison
500
What is a system of separation of powers among the three branches of government
What is the Constitution
500
What does negates believe about this system of checks and balances?
What is it is so intricately woven throughout the Constitution that they believe it negates the separation of powers.