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Constitutional Demo
Constitutional Democracy - Lesson 4, Chpt 4, 5th Grade
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Laws allow for peaceful way of settling | Disagreements |
| Purpose of a democratic government is to | protect the rights of its citizens and to promote the common good. |
| The Constitution empowers the federal goverment which means | gives it enough power to govern the nation. |
| 3 branches of goverment that share its power | legislative, executive, and judicial branches |
| Separation of the power between the 3 branches keeps the federal government from becoming | too powerful. |
| The 3 branches of government must often work together to | pass laws, make treaties, and use military power to defend the nation. |
| The federal goverment takes care of the following issues | military properly trained and equipped, protect national parks and environment, protect children and people who are ill or elderly. |
| Constition limits and empowers the federal goverment by having | 3 branches of government that must work together. |
| This system keeps any one branch from becoming too powerful or misusing authority. | Checks and Balances. |
| President can check or eliminate a bill from Congress by | Veto |
| Congress can check the president's power by | overriding the veto or refusing to give money for programs. |
| Supreme Court can check Congress' bills by | Declaring them unconstitutional. |
| Union | An alliance that works to reach common goals. This is the purpose of the Checks and Balances between the legislative branches. |
| Tenth Amendment | preserves the rights of the states and its people by declaring that anything not specifically spelled out in the Constitution cannot take away rights of the states or its people |
| State goverments are responsible for | build state highways, protect state parks, oversee public schools and state universities. And they provide many services to help the people in their state if they do not have enough money for food, shelter, health care, or other basic needs. |
| The Constitution says states cannot | print money, raise armies, or make treaties with other countries. Trade agreements between states must be approved by Congress. |
| What are the 3 levels of government | federal goverment, state goverment, and local goverment. |
| State governments also have 3 branches | legislative branch, executive branch, and judicial branch |
| Local governments call their executive | Mayor |
| Local goverments call their legislative branch | City Council |
| In a county legislative branch is | Board of Commissioners |
| Principles of Democracy include | justice, equality, responsibility, and freedom. |
| Government derives its power from the people | Popular Sovereignty |
| In a republic, power is given to representatives when they are voted in by their | citizens |
| Democratic responsibility | to vote |
| Public Agenda | writing letters to representatives keeps leaders on track with what people want from the government |
| Democratic responsibility | to vote |
| Public Agenda | writing letters to representatives keeps leaders on track with what people want from the government |
| The right to vote was not given to women-- this right is called | suffrage |
| Edna Purtell | protested to get women the right to vote |
| Civic Virtue | to act with qualities that add to a healthy democracy. Obey laws, serve on juries, pay taxes, males register for military. |
| Naturalization | Immigrants become US legal citizens if they are 18 years old, have lived in the country for 5 years, or marry a US citizen. And they must pass a test on US government and history, be able to speak and write English. |
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