The title of the chief executive of the Executive Branch.
What is the President?
100
The chief executive at the state level.
What is a governor?
100
The chief executive at the local level.
What is a mayor?
100
The level of government that establishes driving age and speed limits.
What is the state government?
100
A rule that a particular country or community recognizes as a way of regulating the actions of its members.
What is a law?
200
The two houses of the Legislative Branch at the federal level.
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
200
The names of two houses of the Legislative Branch at the state level.
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
200
The Legislative Branch at the local (or city) level.
What is the city council?
200
An administrator or manager in charge of a number of schools or a school district.
Who is the superintendent?
200
The name of the Legislative Branch for the State of Iowa.
What is the General Assembly?
300
The name of the powers the US Constitution specifically gives to the federal government.
What are delegated powers?
300
The name of the powers given to the STATES, not the Federal government.
What are reserved powers?
300
A group that markets, manages and sells home in neighborhood. It can create rules like every house having a red roof or every house having to put up Christmas decorations.
What is a homeowners association?
300
A governing body that oversees the operation of county government.
What is the board of supervisors?
300
A regulation that governs people or things at the LOCAL level.
What is an ordinance?
400
The representative of the Judicial Branch at the federal level.
What is the Supreme Court?
400
The State of Iowa's chief executive.
Who is Terry Branstad?
400
A local BOARD or authority responsible for the provision and maintenance of SCHOOLS.
What is a school board?
400
The Judicial Branch's representative body at the federal level.
What is the Supreme Court?
400
A system in which the powers of the government are divided between the federal and state levels.
What is federalism?
500
Examples of what the federal government can do.
(Name at least one)
What is creating post offices, coining money, declaring war and regulating international trade?
500
Examples of some of the powers of the state government.
(Name one)
What are establishing traffic laws, marriage laws, managing interstate trade, and establishing public schools?
500
The mayor of Des Moines, IA.
Who is Frank Cownie?
500
The name of Mr. Lucas' dog.
What is Gus?
500
The idea that the federal government gets the final say over the state, the state gets the final say over the county, and so on. (think of the upside down triangle)