Creating the Constitution Chapter 9/10

The main job of the legislative branch is to

• resolve a disputes involving the law.

• enforce and carry out federal laws.

• make laws needed for the country

• obey laws once they are passed.

The framers designed a system of checks and balances to

• Share power between the national and state governments

• make it difficult, but not impossible to amend the Constitution

• make sure that the Constitution was the supreme law of the land

• keep any one branch of government from becoming too powerful

the Supreme court's power to declare a law unconstitutional is known as

• judicial review

• veto power

• federalism

• the amendment process.

a bill cannot become a law until it is

• approved by Congress and judged constitutional by the Supreme Court.

• Proposed by the president and approved by Congress

• approved by Congress and signed by the president.

• proposed by Congress and ratified by the states.

the most important task of the executive branch is to

• resolve disputes involving the law.

• enforce and carry out federal laws.

• decide which laws are constitutional

• change laws to fit changing needs.

the elastic clause gives congress the power to

• amend the Constitution as times change

• declare actions of the president unconstitutional

• veto decisions of the Supreme Court

• pass laws needed to carry out its other powers.

the judicial branch is responsible for

• resolving disputes under the law

• putting federal laws into effect

• vetoing laws it doesn't like.

• making new laws to stop crime.

why has the constitution survived for over 200 years because it

• gives more power to the states than to the national goverment

• combines a strong framework for the government with flexibility

• creates a framework for government that can never be changed.

• has been amended thousands of times to make it work better

This diagram illustrates the

• system of checks and balances

• elastic clause

• federal system of government

• the amendment process

the power to ratify treaties belongs to the

• House

• Senate

• Supreme Court

• president