The Constitution

The main job of the Legislative Branch is to

• resolve disputes involving the law.

• enforce and carry out federal laws.

• make/propose laws for the country.

• obey laws once they are passed.

The framers (people who wrote the Constitution) designed a system of checks and balances to

• share power between federal 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 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 ratified by Congress.

• approved by Congress and ratified by the President.

• proposed by Congress and ratified by the states.

The main job of the Executive branch is to

• make laws for the country.

• carry out the laws made for the country.

• determine if laws for the country are constitutional.

• resolve arguments over the law.

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

• making and proposing laws for the country.

• carrying out laws of the country.

• making sure laws of the country are constitutional.

• resolving arguments about the law.

Why has the Constitution been able to last for more than 200 years?

• it gives more power to the states.

• it can be amended as times and people's mindsets change.

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

• it 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.

• amendment process.

An amendment to the Constitution can be proposed by either the

• president or constitutional convention.

• House or the Senate.

• Congress or constitutional convention.

• president or Congress.