Three Branches of Government Part I

What is the purpose of the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution?

• To expand the courts’ authority to review federal law

• To guarantee citizens’ voting rights regardless of race or gender

• To limit the federal government’s powers

• The establish checks and balances between the executives and legislative branches.

A proposal that has been introduced by a member of Congress to be considered as a potential law is called what?

• A veto

• An act of Congress

• A resolution

• A bill

The idea of a legislative branch making the laws, an executive branch enforcing the laws, and a judicial branch overseeing application of the law is consistent with

• Checks and balances

• Popular sovereignty

• Federalism

• Separation of powers

Nicholas Davis is extremely disappointed. Although the president of the United States nominated him to serve on the Supreme Court, the U.S. Senate voted down his nomination. This scenario is an example of

• The legislative branch

• Checks and balances

• Separation of powers

• Popular sovereignty

Congress is composed of

• The executive branch

• The House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate

• The federal judiciary

• The cabinet and the federal bureaucracy

Rights which human beings are born with and which no government has a right to take away are called

• Alienable rights

• Declaratory rights

• Social rights

• Natural rights

Powers the state and federal governments share

• Reserved Powers

• Concurrent Powers

• Reserved Powers

Powers that belong only to the federal government

• Enumerated Powers

• Reserved Powera

• Concurrent Powers

Powers retained by the states

• Concurrent Powers

• Enumerated Powers

• Reserved Powers

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