Constitution Review

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.

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.

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 "elastic clause" gives Congress the power to

• amend the Constitution as times change.
• declare actions of the president unconstitutional.
• veto decisions of the Supreme Court.
• pass laws needed to carry out its other powers.

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.
• ordinary Americans.

each branch of gov't is subject to certain restraints by the other two

• checks and balances

• limited government

• Great Compromise

• Veto

distribution of power between Federal and state governments

• Federalism

• checks and balances

• separation of powers

• Bill of Rights

allowed a House of Rep. based on population and gave equal representation the in the Senate

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• Articles of Confederation

• Great Compromise