3 branches review quiz (CE6-9)

There are three separate branches of government. Each branch has its own powers.

• winner take all system

• checks and balances

• separation of powers

• the lawmaking process

Match the following

• US Supreme Court

• Judicial branch

• President

• Legislative branch

• Congress

• Executive branch

The _____________ exercises the power of judicial review.

• The US Congress

• The US Supreme Court

• The Executive branch

• The President of the US

This branch of government prepares the annual budget, oversees executive agencies and departments, and appoints members to the US Supreme Court.

• the US Supreme Court

• Judicial branch

• Congress

• Executive branch

This branch of government declares war, regulates trade, confirms presidential appointments, and approves the annual budget.

• the Judicial branch

• the Executive branch

• the General Assembly

• the Legislative branch

Match the following

• enforces and administers the laws

• President

• determines if laws are constitutional or unconstitutional

• Congress

• makes laws

• US Supreme Court

Each of the three branches of government limits the power of the other branches.

• checks and balances

• the law proposal process

• the powers of the executive branch

• separation of powers

Match the following

• declare laws unconstitutional

• Congress checks the courts when legislators

• vetoes laws passed by Congress

• the Courts check Congress when judges

• confirm/deny federal judges

• Congress checks the President when legislators

• approves presidential appointments

• The President checks the courts when the President

• appoints federal judges

• The President checks Congress when the president

Place the steps in order for a bill to become a law.

• The President can sign or veto the bill.

• The bill is sent to a committee.

• The bill is debated on the House floor and changes are made to the bill.

• The Senate repeats the same process (that took place in the House)

• Law makers introduce the bill in the House of Representatives.  

All of the following are ways for the President to influence policymaking EXCEPT...

• Delivering the annual State of the Union Address (the yearly speech that the President gives to Congress and the citizens of the US.

• Proposing new laws.

• Declaring laws unconstitutional.

• Appointing officials to help carry out the laws.