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What is the supreme law of the Constitution
the land?
What does the -sets up the government
Constitution do? -defines the government
-protects basic rights of Americans
The idea of selfgovernment We the People
is in the first three words
of the Constitution. What
are these words?
What is an amendment? -a change (to the Constitution)
-an addition (to the Constitution)
What do we call the first the Bill of Rights
ten amendments to the
Constitution?
What is one right or -speech
freedom from the First -religion
Amendment? -assembly
-press
-petition the government
twenty-seven
How many amendments
does the Constitution
have?
,What did the Declaration of -announced our independence (from Great Britain)
Independence do? -declared our independence (from Great Britain)
-said that the United States is free (from Great Britain)
What are two rights in the -life
Declaration of -liberty -pursuit
Independence? of happiness
What is freedom of religion? You can practice any
religion, or not
practice a religion.
What is the economic -capitalist economy
system in the United -market economy
States?
What is the "rule of law"? -Everyone must follow the law.
-Leaders must obey the law.
-Government must obey the law.
-No one is above the law.
Name one branch or part of -Congress
the government. -legislative
-President
-executive
-the courts
-judicial
What stops one branch of -checks and
government from becoming balances -
too powerful? separation of
powers
Who is in charge of the the President
executive branch?
, Who makes federal laws? -Congress
-Senate and House
(of Representatives) -(U.S.
or national) legislature
What are the two parts of the the Senate and
U.S. Congress? House (of
Representatives)
How many U.S. Senators are one hundred (100)
there?
We elect a U.S. Senator for six
how many years?
Who is one of your state's Marco Rubio
U.S. Senators now? Rick Scott
The House of 435
Representatives has
how many voting
members?
We elect a U.S. two
Representative for how many
years?
Name your Mario Diaz Balart or
U.S. Representative. Byron Donalds
Who does a U.S. Senator all people of the state
represent?
Why do some states have -(because of) the state's population
more Representatives than
other states?
We elect a President for how four
many years?
In what month do we vote for November
President?