Legislative Branch
Executive Branch
Separation of Powers/Checks and Balances
How a Bill Becomes a Law
Preamble
100

The two houses of Congress

What are the House of Representatives and Senate

100

The leader of the executive branch

Who is the president

100

The president signs treaties and appoints officials but who has to ratify (approve) these powers?

What is the Senate

100

The only people who can introduce a bill

Who is a member of Congress

100

The meaning of "establish justice."

What is treat everyone fairly under the law?

200

Power to remove members of the Executive and Judicial branches from office

What is Impeachment

200

The president can do these two things to a bill

What is sign or veto

200

This branch creates the post office

What is the legislative?

200

Where the bill goes after it is introduced

What is to committee

200

The meaning of insure domestic tranquility.

What is keep peace in the country?

300

Powers that are listed in the U.S. Constitution

What are Enumerated Powers

300

Power to forgive someone's crime

What is pardon

300

This branch coins money

What is Legislative?

300

Where a bill goes if it passes committee

What is to floor debate and vote

300

Why does the Preamble begin with the phrase "We the People?"

What is the people have the power?

400

Powers given to the legislative branch by the Necessary and Proper Clause

What are implied powers

400

The people in the Executive Branch who advise the president

What is the cabinet

400

This branch gives a speech every year to Congress called the State of the Union

What is executive?
400

After a bill passes in one house it goes to

What is the other house

400

The meaning of "Secure blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity"

What is secure freedom for ourselves and our children.

500

This is the reason Congress has Implied Powers.

What is the Necessary and Proper Clause (Elastic Clause)?

500

An order by the president that has the power of a law

What is an executive order?

500

How does the impeachment process work?

What is "A president is impeached by the house and removed by the Senate"?

500

Last place a bill goes

What is to the executive

500

The purpose of the Preamble

What is list the goals and purposes of the Constitution?