What was the major problem with the Articles of Confederation?
Which word means the separation of power between different levels of government?
What are the 3 ways (levels) in which power is distributed in the U.S.?
Why did the framers of the Constitution want to make sure that power was divided between groups of people?
How many branches of government are there in the U.S. government?
Name the branches of government.
Which branch of the U.S. government is the most powerful?
What is the system called that separated the government into branches?
Name the document that created the government of the United States.
Which branch of the government is responsible for making laws?
What is another name for the men and women who make up the branch of the government that makes the laws?
True or False: Only the legislative branch can declare war?
True or False: Each state in the United States has its own legislative branch to make laws for the individual states.
Which branch of the U.S. government approves Supreme Court nominees?
Who is the head of the executive branch of the U.S. government?
Who is the current Vice President of the United States?
True or false: Congress cannot override a President's veto.
What is the title that the President holds as the leader of America's military?
What is the job of the executive branch of the U.S. government?
Which branch of the government interprets the laws to determine if they follow the Constitution?
Which level of government power decides speed limits?
Which branch of government has the ability to tax the people?
Which level of power has the right to choose their own friends?
Who is the governor of Michigan and what branch of the state government does he or she head?
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It left the federal government too weak to run the country (answers may vary).
The word is federalism
Power is split between the federal government, the state governments, and the people
They were afraid of one person or group of people having too much power because of their experience with a king.
There are 3 branches in the U.S. government.
The branches of government are the Executive, Legislative, and the Judicial Branch.
No branch is the most powerful. They are all equal.
The system of checks and balances separated the government into branches. (Separation of powers may be accepted)
The Constitution created the government of the United States.
The legislative branch makes the laws.
The U.S. Congress is the name of the men and women in that branch.
This is true.
True
The legislative branch approves the nominees.
The President is the head of the Executive Branch.
Joseph (Joe) Biden is the Vice President
False. Congress can override a veto as long as two-thirds of Congress agrees to do so.
He or she is the Commander-in-Chief of the military.
The main job is to enforce or carry out the laws of the land.
The judicial branch interprets the laws.
The state governments decide speed limits for the states.
The legislative branch can tax the people.
The people have the right to choose their own friends.
Jennifer Granholm is the governor and she heads Michigan's executive branch.
