Three Branches of Government

What are the three branches of the U.S. government?

• legislative, executive, and judical
• congress, the Supreme Court, and the Senate
• the president, the House of Representatives, and the Senate

Read these sentences from the text.
"The people who wrote the Constitution didn't want one person or group to have too much power.  That was why they divided the government into three parts, known as branches." What can you concluded  based on this evidence.

• The three branches of the government do not have the same amount of power.  
• The people who wrote the Constitution wanted every American to help make laws.
• The people who who wrote the constitution wanted a balance of powers.

Showed that the president is accountable for obeying the law.

• United States v. Nixon
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Miranda v. Arizona

The Supreme Court’s reviewing and ruling on acts of other branches of the government and determining if a law is unconstitutional is called

• Supremacy
• law review
• Judicial Review
• Supreme ruling

Resolved the dispute surrounding the 2000 presidential election. 

• District of Columbia v. Heller
• Bush v. Gore
• Brown v. Board of Education

Which power did the U. S. Supreme Court establish in Marbury v. Madison?

• Judicial review
• Hearing appeals from lower federal courts
• Deciding cases involving two or more states 
• Judicial independence through lifetime tenure

In most states, traffic violations and family disputes are heard in

• general trial courts
• lower courts
• circuit courts
• appeals court

A challenge to a previous legal decision

• jurisdiction
• felony
• precedent
• appeal

The highest court in the United States is

• District Court
• The Peoples Court
• The Supreme Court
• Appeals Court

Civil cases usually focus on

• human rights
• racial discrimination
• property or money
• criminal prosecution