Legislative Branch
The branch that makes all laws, declares war, regulates interstate and foreign commerce and controls taxing and spending policies.
What is the Legislative branch?
Consists of the President, his or her advisors and various departments and agencies.
What is the executive branch?
True or false: Members of the Judicial Branch are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
What is true?
The amount of branches the U.S. government has.
What is three?
A document that gives the rules for how a government should run.
What is a constitution?
A formal meeting of representatives from each state that enact laws that influence the daily lives of all Americans and is intended to serve as the voice of the people.
What is congress?
What the executive branch is mainly responsible for.
What is enforcing the laws of the land?
Decides the constitutionality of federal laws and resolves other disputes about federal laws.
What is the judicial branch?
The government of the United States is based on this document.
What is the constitution?
The introduction of the constitution that explains what it is meant to do.
What is the preamble?
Congress is a bicameral legislature divided into these two equal institutions.
What is the House of Representatives and the Senate?
True or false: The executive branch has the power to veto a proposal for a law from the legislative branch.
What is true? (As stated in the Constitution)
The highest court in the land and the only part of the federal judiciary specifically required by the Constitution.
What is the Supreme Court?
This system stops one branch of the government from becoming too powerful.
What is the checks and balances system?
There are 7 of these that describe the way the government is structured and how it operates.
What is an article?
Name two roles of the legislative branch.
What is: (any two of the following)
The three divisions of the executive branch.
Who are:
The president
The vice-president
The cabinet
The article that requires the establishment of a Supreme Court and permits the Congress to create other federal courts and place limitations on their jurisdiction.
What is Article 3?
True or false: The Constitution, federal laws made according to it, and treaties made under its authority, constitute the "supreme Law of the Land", and thus take priority over any conflicting state laws.
What is true?
There are 27 of these that are formal revisions or additions to the Constitution.
What are amendments?
The main job of the legislative branch.
What is to make laws?
The cabinet is comprised of 15 departments. Name three.
What is: (any 3 of the following)
Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Department of Education, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of the Interior, Department of Justice, Department of Labor, Department of State, Department of Transportation, Department of the Treasury, Department of Veteran's Affairs,
The three responsibilities of the Judicial branch.
What is:
The three major goals of the U.S. government as defined in the Constitution.
What are:
to create a more perfect union
to establish justice under the law
to ensure domestic peace
The branch of government that interprets the meaning of laws, applies laws to individual cases, and decides if laws violate the Constitution
What is the Judicial branch?