Civics Module 3 - National Government

makes the laws

• executive
• legislative

carries out or enforces the laws

• executive
• judicial

reviews the laws

• judicial
• bicameral

the system that gives each of the three branches of government ways to limit the powers of the other two branches.

• judicial review
• checks and balances

a two house legislature.  An example is our U.S. Congress (House of Representatives and Senate)

• federal bureaucracy
• bicameral

income.  The government usually generates this through taxes and tariffs.

• revenue
• annual budget

to impose or collect by legal authority (government)

• levy
• foreign trade

to bring under the control of the government.  To monitor

• regulate
• levy

the departments that operate within our national government and are headed by the executive branch. Ex: Dept of Agriculture, Dept. of Education etc.

• federal bureaucracy
• diplomat

the federal courts have the power to review acts of the federal government and to cancel any acts that are unconstitutional, or violate the constitution

• judicial review
• debate