By the People
An official member of a country.
What is a citizen?
This is the main responsibility of this branch.
Congress has two parts.
What are the House of Representatives (the House) and the Senate?
The name of our nation's highest court.
What is the Supreme Court?
A change to the Constitution.
What is an amendment?
Every citizen has a right to take part in government.
What is a democracy?
The head of this branch.
What is the President?
What is to make the laws?
The number of justices on the Supreme Court.
What are nine?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What are the Bill of Rights?
A wise plan for governing the United States.
What is the Constitution?
This title indicates that the President is in charge of our nation's armed forces.
What is Commander in Chief?
The building where Congress meets.
What is the United States Capitol Building?
The main responsibility of the judicial branch.
What is to interpret our nation's laws?
Money the government collects to pay for its services such as maintaining roads and parks.
What are taxes?
What is a republic?
The President lives and works in this famous house.
What is the White House?
The number of Senators in the Senate.
What are fifty senators - two from each state?
The Supreme Court Building is located in this city.
What is Washington, D.C.?
A panel of ordinary citizens who make decisions in a court of law.
What is a jury?
A system of government in which the national and state governments share power.
What is a federal government?
The number of years the President serves in one term.
What is four years?
This determines the number of representatives for each state.
What is the state's population?
What is for the rest of their lives?
A government document used in traveling to foreign countries.
What is a passport?