Vocabulary
What is the definition of democracy?
A type of government in which the people are in control/power.
What are the 3 branches of the United States government, as states in articles 1, 2, and 3 of the Constitution?
The legislative branch (article I), the executive branch (article II), and the Judicial Branch (III).
What is the definition of amendment?
A formal change, correction, or improvement made to the Constitution of the United States.
What are states powers called?
Reserved powers.
What is the structure of Michigan's State Government?
Executive Branch: Governor, Luitenant Governor, Secretary of State, and Attorney General.
Senate: 38 elected members
House of Representatives: 110 elected members
Judicial Branch: Michigan Supreme Court appointed by the governor or elected by the poeple. Defer to U.S. Supreme Court if can't be solved by State.
What is the Constitution?
The laws/rulebook of the United States Government.
What 2 houses make up the legislative branch?
The House of Representatives and the Senate.
How many rights are in the 1st amendment?
5: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom to petition the government
What is an example of a concurrent power?
Collecting taxes, building roads, creating courts, making laws, borrowing money
What is the purpose of Michigan's State Government?
What is nationalization?
It is the process of becoming a citizen of the United States.
The President, Donald Trump.
How many amendments are in the Bill of Rights?
10
What is a social institution?
A social institution is a group or organization that has specific roles, norms, and expectations, which functions to meet the social needs of society. Examples: family, government, religion, education, and media.
What is the purpose of the Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan?
The council works together with the 12 Michigan Tribes to protect the rights of all tribal members by developing programs and policies to:
improve education
economic activities
health services
create regulations, rules and laws
What does the word, economy, mean?
Which branch is responsible for enforcing laws?
Executive Branch
Name an amendment and the number that it is.
Answers will vary.
What is the purpose of government according to the United States Preamble?
To keep the peace.
What plan was developed in 1835 to write laws to protect Michigan's individual liberties?
The Michigan State Constitution
What is Popular Sovereignty?
It is the idea that a government's power comes from the people.
What does checks and balances mean?
A system that allows each branch of a government to amend, override, or veto acts of another branch so as to prevent any one branch from exerting too much power.
What is the 10th amendment?
Powers not listed in the Constitution are given to the states.
This government is sometimes a sovereign nation.
Tribal Government
When and what was the last change to the Preamble, Constitution of Michigan?
1964
"We the people of the State of Michigan, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of freedom, and earnestly desiring to secure the blessins undiminished to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establis this constitution."