P16 - Legislative Branch, Part 1 (Bluebook Answers page 17)

What is the major duty of the legislative branch?

• To enforce laws

• To interpret laws

• To make laws

• To judge laws

What is the major body in the legislative branch?

• The Supreme Court

• Congress

• The President

• The Cabinet

What two houses make up the legislative branch?

• The Senate and the House of Representatives

• The Supreme Court and the Senate

• The House of Commons and the House of Lords

• The Executive and the Judiciary

What is a representative government?

• A government where citizens vote directly on laws

• A government where officials are elected to represent the people

• A government ruled by a monarch

• A government controlled by a single party

The President of the United States has the power to call Congress into special session.

• True

• False

Congress meets in many of our major cities.

• True

• False

The Library of Congress is part of the legislative branch.

• True

• False

Congress must meet at least twice every year.

• True

• False

The president makes the rules for Congress.

• True

• False

Congress meets in the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.

• True

• False