Constitution review

The framers designed a system of checks and balances to

• share power between the national and state governments.
• make it difficult but not impossible to amend the Constitution.
• make sure that the Constitution was the supreme law of the land.
• keep any one branch of government from becoming too powerful.

The main job of the legislative branch is to

• resolve disputes involving the law.
• enforce and carry out federal laws.
• make laws needed for the country.
• obey laws once they are passed.

A bill cannot become a law until it is

• approved by Congress and judged constitutional by the Supreme Court.
• proposed by the president and approved by Congress.
• approved by Congress and signed by the president.
• proposed by Congress and ratified by the states.

The most important task of the executive branch is to

• resolve disputes involving the law.
• enforce and carry out federal laws.
• decide which laws are constitutional.
• change laws to fit changing needs.

The judicial branch is responsible for

• making sure laws are fair.

• putting federal laws into effect.

• vetoing laws it doesn't like.

• making new laws to stop crime.

The Preamble lists the

• powers of the Congress.

• limits on government power.

• goals of the government.

• rights of the people.

The Preamble's first three words tell us that the authority of the Constitution comes from

• the Constitutional Convention.

• members of Congress.

• state legislatures.

• American citizens.

To "provide for the common Defense" means to

• protect Americans from foreign enemies.
• keep law-abiding people safe from criminals.
• provide lawyers to people accused of crimes.
• apply the same laws to all people, rich or poor.

The concept of ________________ divides power between the three branches

• checks and balances

• federalism

• separation of powers

This branch of government interprets laws and decides if presidential actions and legislative laws are constitutional.

• executive

• legislative

• judicial