Creating a New Government

What power does the President have over Congress?

• He can veto a bill.

• He chooses judges

• He must approve judges.

• He can declare actions of Congress unconstitutional.

What power does the Supreme Court have over the President?

• The Supreme Court can veto a bill.

• The Supreme Court can appoint judges.

• The Supreme Court can override a veto.

• The Supreme Court can declare actions unconstitutional.

What power does Congress have over the President?

• Congress can override a veto.

• Congress can choose a judge.

• Congress can declare a law unconstitutional.

• Congress can declare the president's actions unconstitutional.

A strength of Congress is that they can declare war.

• True

• False

A weakness of Congress is that they can raise an army.

• True

• False

The Articles of Confederation gave states...

• total power over the national government.

• the same power as the national government.

• less power than the national government.

• more power than the national government.

Some problems under the Articles of Confederation were that states...

• printed their own money and taxed each other.

• taxed each other and went to war against England and France.

• printed their own money and fought over names.

• made their own rules for trade and started the Civil War.

How was the Constitution different from the Articles of Confederation?

• The Constitution provided three branches of government with distinct roles.

• A. The Articles had no firm rules for trade, money, armed forces, and taxing states.

• A. The Constitution was designed to be amended and the Articles were not.

• All of the above.

What is the main duty of the judicial branch?

• to enforce the laws

• to interpret the laws

• to make the laws

• to appoint judges to the courts

Which of these helps to keep one branch of the government from gaining more power than the other two branches?

• The electoral college

• The Preamble to the Constitution

• The system of Checks and Balances

• The Three-Fifths Compromise