ESOL Citizenship vocabulary (Part 2)

What does the Legislative branch of the governement do?

• Provide housing for qualified people.

• Determines rules for schools.

• Issues driver's liscence.

• Writes laws for presidental approval.

The Exectutive Branch

• Carries out the law.

• Approves the laws.

• Decides if the law is constitutional.

• Makes the laws.

Judicial Branch

• Declares war.

• Writes the laws.

• Decides if the laws are constitutional.

• Prints money for the nation.

The system of ________ is used to make sure that one branch of the government does not get too powerful.

The Civil Rights Act of 1969 says that no one in the United States can be denied a job, housing or education based on skin color, religious beliefs or who they love. This is an example of _________.

• a dictatorship

• communism

• state law

• Federal law

How many Senators are in the Senate?

• 50

• 105

• 435

• 100

How many representatives are in the House of Representatives?

• 435

• 105

• 50

• 100

Each state has __________senators.

• 5

• It depends on the population of the state.

• 2

• 1

The President's Cabinet:

• A group of people who advise the president.

• Where the president puts his dirty clothes.

• Is in his closet.

• People who make laws.

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is:

• Kamala Harris

• Mitch McConnel

• Nancy Pelosi

• John G. Roberts