Branches and Jobs
This branch of Government makes laws.
What is the legislative branch?
The first 10 amendments are called this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Freedom of speech is protected by this amendment.
What is the First Amendment?
The highest court in the United States.
What is the Supreme Court?
The two major political parties in the U.S. are these.
What are the Democratic and Republican parties?
Who is the head of the executive branch.
Who is the President?
This is the name of the meeting where the Constitution was written.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
This is the warning police must read that includes the right to remain silent and right to an attorney.
What are Miranda rights?
The leader of the Supreme Court.
Who is the Chief Justice?
A system where citizens choose leaders by voting.
What is a democracy?
This is the title of the President’s second-in-command
Who is the Vice President?
This city is where the Constitution was written and signed.
What is Philadelphia?
This amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms.
What is the Second Amendment?
A promise to tell the truth before testifying in court.
What is an oath?
Money collected by the government to pay for public services.
What are taxes?
The part of Congress where each state has 2 members.
What is the Senate?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This freedom lets people practice any religion or no religion at all.
What is freedom of religion?
The lawyer who represents the government in a criminal case.
Who is the prosecutor?
The people who live in a city, state, or country.
What are citizens?
This is when the President rejects a bill passed by Congress, sending it back without becoming law.
What is a veto?
The opening words “We the People” appear in this part.
What is the Preamble?
This is the right to gather peacefully in a group to support a cause.
What is freedom of assembly?
This legal agreement happens when the defendant pleads guilty for a lesser charge or lighter sentence.
What is a plea bargain?
A law made by a city or town government.
What is an ordinance?