Government Vocabulary

What is a constitution?

• a country where people live, work, and play

• set of rules that guides how a country, state, or other political organization works

• a state where people live, work, and play

• a city where people live together

What is a democracy?

• a place where people can be free

• a land where people live

• a demo tape

• a form of government

What is the Declaration of Independence?

• a way for people to say what they want

• a promise to say something

• founding document of the United States

• a piece of paper

Executive Branch

• A tall tree branch

• laws of a country

• the top leader

• responsible for carrying out, or executing, the laws

legislative branch

• laws of a country

• part of the government that writes up and votes on laws

• voting

• government

Judicial Branch

• supreme court

• makes laws

• enforces the laws

• law

What are laws?

• executive

• judicial

• rules everyone must follow

• independence

What is the Senate?

• laws

• executive branch

• Judicial branch

• chambers of Congress that comprises the Legislative Branch of the United States government

What is the House of Representatives?

• laws

• body of elected officials who represent individual districts in their home states

• Senate

• Government

President

• elected commander in chief of the United States

• An important person

• makes laws

• house of representatives