Ch 12, 4th Grade History, BJU

A system of rules and authority

• Constitution

• bills

• government

• laws

Government by the people

• suffrage

• democracy

• laws

• Senate

Representative Democracy

• indirect democracy

• pure democracy

Protects the rights of all citizens

• Bill of Rights

• Constitution

• taxes

• amendments

made up of 435 members

• House of Representatives

• Senate

• judicial branch

• legislative branch

Two people from each state serve here

• Senate

• executive branch

• House of Representatives

• judicial branch

amendments

• taxes

• Bill of Rights

• democracy

• changes in a document

Rights of the people that the government cannot take away

• laws

• amendments

• Bill of Rights

• bills

money that citizens pay to keep the government working

• taxes

• laws

• suffrage

• bills

suffrage

• laws

• democracy

• the right to vote

• bills