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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 |