Checks and Balances Review

What does the Executive Branch do?

• Enforces the law

• Makes the laws

The Judicial Branch...

• Makes money

• Evaluates the laws

The Legislative branch makes the laws. Who represents the Legislative Branch?

• The President

• The Supreme Court

• The Congress

What power does the executive branch have over the judicial branch?

• The power to choose the federal judges

• The executive branch has the power to do all the desisions

• The executive power has NO power

Imbalance of power is something the writer of the Constitution wanted to avoid by passing the System of Checks and ___________.

A presidential veto is an example of checks and balances. What does veto mean?

• Approve

• Reject

• Ignore

• Allow

Who is James Madison? Has two correct answers.

• First president of the United States

• He invented the lightbulb

• He wrote persuasive essays to pass the constitution

• He is the "Father of the Constitution"

Delivering mail is an example of "insure domestic tranquility."

• True

• False

To ratify means to

• Approve

• Reject

The federal and state governments share the power of _________.

• Impeach the president

• Go to war

• Nothing

• Borrow money and collect taxes