Government of Michigan

Building and fixing roads is an example of which role of state government?

• Providing services

• Making and enforcing laws

• Protecting rights

• Keeping people safe.

Which of the following is an example of how the state government keeps people safe?

• It builds schools and libraries

• It takes care of state parks

• It provided state police officers

Which of the following is something that people do in a representative government?

• They write the laws themselves

• The have meetings with everyone to make decisions

• They vote for leaders to make laws and decisions for them

Who holds the power in our government?

• The president

• The army

• The governor

• The people

Who represents the people in our Michigan government

• The State Police

• The Governor

• Representatives and Senators

• The President

Which of the following is the job a the local government?

• To make state laws

• To write a new constitution

• To provide state services

• To make laws for their city

If you wanted to build a fence around your yard, which level of government would tell you where you could build it?

• Local government

• State government

• National government

Which of these services is provided by Michigan's state government?

• Provides food for the military

• It collects money for the government

• It takes care of state parks

What are Michigan's three branches of state government?

• legislative, judges, and mayors

• legislative, executive, and judicial

• legislative, representative, and senate

Which branch of government decides if laws have been broken?

• Judicial

• Executive

• Legislative