2023 Unit 6 Const., c & B, judicial, federalism 2023

Printing money, declaring war, and regulating trade (commerce) are powers the Constitution gives to _____.

• Executive

• Congress

• President

• judicial branch

The elastic clause stretches the powers of the legislative so that they can do what needs to be done in order to make sure they can do the jobs given to them by the Constitution.

• True

• False

The _____ branch passes a bill (law that isn’t signed), the _____ can approve or veto it, the ______ branch can override the veto, and the _____ can declare the law unconstitutional.

• legislative, executive, legislative, judicial

• executive, leguslative, executive, judicial

• legislative, executive, executive, judicial

• judicial, executive, legislative, judicial

Powers not given to the federal government belong to the states, so the federal government cannot pass laws about state powers.

• False

• True

An example of ________ is when the President nominates Supreme Court justices and the Senate can approve or reject them.

• separation of powers

• checks and balances

The President, or ______ branch, makes foreign policy and treaties, while Congress, or the ______ branch, approves or vetoes them.

• legislative, executive

• legislative, judicial

• executive, legislative

• judicial, executive

______________ means each branch has their own responsibilities, and ______________ means that each branch has power to counteract another branch’s power.

• separation of powers, checks and balances

• checks and balances, separation of powers

The legislative branch makes laws, the executive branch enforces laws, and the _judicial  branch interprets laws.

• False

• True

______ gives some powers to the federal government, like declaring war, some powers to the states, like education, and some concurrent powers, like collecting taxes, that are shared by the federal and state governments.

• legislative

• confederalism

• House of Representatives

• federalism

The _____ branch can determine if gov’t actions are constitutional, can decide what punishments should go with what crimes, and make people appear in court, whether they want to or not

• judicial

• legislative

• executive