The Constitutional Convention

What are the three branches of government?

• Congress, Presidents, Judges
• Executive, Legislative, Judicial
• Executive, Legislative, Senate
• Judicial, House of Representatives, Senate

Whats does the judicial branch of government do?

• Supervises laws,

• Make laws
• Carry out the laws.
• Explain the laws.

What does the legislative branch of government do?

• Carry out the laws
• Approve the laws
• Make the laws
• Supervise the law

What does the executive branch of government do?

• Makes laws official
• Make laws
• Supervise laws
• Doesn't have anything to do with laws

Who is in charge of the executive branch?

• Senate
• Congress
• House of Representatives

• the president

The country's first set of rules after the Revolutionary War was the--

• Articles of Confederation

• Bill of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

• Preamble to the Constitution

Congress is divided into two parts, the Senate and the

• Electoral College

• president's Cabinet

• Supreme Court

• House of Representatives

When was the Constitution signed?

• September 5, 1987

• September 17, 1787

• July 4, 1776

• November 17, 1875

The US Constitution was written to __________?

• sign a treaty with Great Britain

• replace the Declaration of Independence
• replace the Articles of Confederation

• none of the above

Why did the framers of the Constitution create a separation of powers between the three branches?

• So that one branch of government would not have too much power.

• So that everyone could be equal.

• So that people could vote.

• So that the president could have all the power