EOC Empowerment #2

Which places the GREATEST limit on the power of the federal government

• state courts
• judicial review
• Bill of Rights
• President's Veto

The system established to make sure that no one branch of government controls the other branches is called

• checks and balances
• separation of powers
• repubilicanism
• federalism

Which branch of the Federal Government makes laws

• The judicial branch
• The executive branch
• The presidential branch
• The legislative branch

This branch is responsible for carrying out the laws.

• Executive
• Judicial
• Legislative
• Police

A government in which powers are divided between a national government and state governments with the national government being supreme is called

• A unitary government
• A federal government
• A confederate government
• A republican government

This excerpt is often referred to as the "equal protection clause" of the Constitution and is directly tied to the Constitutional principle of what?

• judicial review
• national supremacy
• checks and balances
• popular sovereignty

It can be said that, since Americans elect people to make the Laws of the country, the United States is actually a what?

• Aristocracy
• Democracy
• Republic
• Oligarchy

Taxes may be levied on US citizens by both the federal and state governments. This is an example of what?

• double jeopardy
• a reserved power
• an executive power
• a concurrent power

In the United States Constitution there is a basic concept of what?

• gender equality
• ecnomic parity
• equality of condition
• equality under the law

In state government, incorporation refers to what?

• regulating land usage
• rules by which a city operates
• the process of establishing a city
• expansion of the state into new territories