US Government Unit Exam Review

Popular Sovereignty

• Government can only do what the people say it can do

• The idea that people are the government's source of power

• Basic freedoms all citizens are guaranteed in the Constitution

• Division of power between national and state governments

Republicanism

• People voting for their representatives

• Each branch of government has some control over the other

• The idea that people are the source of government power

• Basic freedoms of all citizens are guaranteed in the Constitution

Responsible for proposing and passing laws

• Executive

• Legislative

• Judicial

Commander--in--Chief of US Military forces

• Exectuive

• Legislative

• Judicial

House of Representatives and Congress

• Executive

• Legislative

• Judicial

Chief Justice presides over the impeachment trial of the President

• Executive

• Legislative

• Judicial

Makes treaties with foreign governments

• Executive

• Legislative

• Judicial

Has the power to declare war

• Executive

• Legislative

• Judicial

Can settle disputes between states

• Executive

• Legislative

• Judicial

Regulate immigration

• National Power

• State Power

• Shared Power