Branches of Government

What is the responsibility of the executive branch?

• to enforce laws

• to elect a president

• to decide if the law has been broken

• to carry out laws

Who is included in the executive branch? (choose 3)

• Congress

• Cabinet

• Vice President

• Senate

• President

Who elects our leaders of Congress?

• the president

• voters in each state

• Washington D.C.

• the legislative branch

What is the responsibility of the legislative branch?

• to vote

• to go to Washington D.C.

• to make laws

• to carry out laws

Who appoints the justices to the Supreme Court?

• the judicial branch

• the president

• the Supreme Court

• the legislative branch

What is the responsibility of the judicial branch?

• to elect the president

• to make laws

• to decide if laws go against the Constitution

• to elect justices

Why did the Constitution split the government into three branches of government?

• The three branches of government would NOT have the same amount of power.

• The people who wrote the Constitution wanted every American to help make laws.

• The people who wrote the Constitution did not want any branch to have too much power.

• The people who wrote the Constitution could not decide on one branch.

What are the three branches of the U.S. government?

• Congress, Supreme Court, and Senate

• President, House of Representatives, Senate

• Legislative, Executive, Judicial

• Congress, President, Cabinet Members

What is another name for the Constitution?

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Law of the Land

• The Supreme Court

• Congress

Congress is made of which of the following?

• Senate and House of Representatives

• Congress and the Legislative Branch

• the Supreme Court

• the justices