US Government

Carries out laws (president, vice president, Cabinet, most federal agencies)

• executive branch

• legislative branch

• judicial branch

Evaluates laws (Supreme Court and other courts)

• executive branch

• legislative branch

• judicial branch

where citizens elect representatives to run the government

• executive branch

• state government

• representative democracy

Makes laws (Congress—House of Representatives and Senate)

• executive

• legislative

• judicial

• sequence

__________________ having to do with a nation

• government

• executive branch

• national

• democracy

A form of government where people have a say in how the government is run is called a ____________________________

• national

• democracy

• branch

• legislative

a part of a group is known as a ___________________.

• branch

• government

• judicial

• executive

A group of people that has the power to rule in a country, state, county or town is called a ___________________________.

• government

• branch

• democracy

• national