click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
4th history test 12
Question | Answer | |
---|---|---|
government by the people | democracy | |
representative democracy | indirect democracy | |
protects the rights of all citizens | Constitution | |
only branch of government divided into two smaller parts | legislative branch | |
made up of 435 members | House of representative | |
made up of two people from each state | Senate | |
changes | amendments | |
names of the rights of the people that the government cannot take away | Bill of Rights | |
money paid by citizens to keep the government working | Taxes | |
the right to vote | Suffrage | |
when voting for a law or a leader in united states | majority rules | |
a wealthy person has | the same voting power as a poor person | |
the word freedom | describes a democratic government | |
by dividing up the authority of the government | no one person or group can get power over the whole country | |
all US citizens who are at least 18 years old | have the right to vote | |
the legislative branch | Writes the laws, Congress, House of Representatives and Senate | |
the executive branch | is the president of United States ,enforces laws | |
the judicial branch | is the Supreme Court, has nine judges, makes sure laws do not take away any of the freedoms promised in the Constitution | |
a system of rules and authority | government |