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What is the supreme law of the land? the Constitution
What does the Constitution do? -sets up the government
-defines the government
-protects basic rights of Americans
The idea of self-government is in the We the People
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 ten amendments to the Bill of Rights
the Constitution?
What is one right or freedom from the First -speech
Amendment? -religion
-assembly
-press
-petition the government
How many amendments does the twenty-seven
Constitution have?
, What did the Declaration of Independence -announced our independence (from Great Britain)
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 Independence? -liberty
-pursuit of
happiness
What is freedom of religion? You can practice
any religion, or
not practice a
religion.
What is the economic system -capitalist economy
in the United States? -market economy
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
U.S. Congress? and House (of
Representatives)
How many U.S. Senators one hundred (100)
are there?