Unit 2 Flashcards
National powers
Print money
Regulate commerce between states and between countries
Foreign policy
Provide a army
Establish post offices
Make laws nessacary to carry out these powers
State powers
Issue licenses
Regulate commerce
Establishes local governments
Establish public heath and safety
Ratify admenments
Education
Roads
Responsibilities of National government
Conduct foreign policy regulate commerce
Responsibilities for state
Promote public health safety and welfare
Responsibilities for local
Makes ordinances for the community
What separation of powers makes laws
Legislative
What separation of powers determines if laws are constitutional
Judicial
What does federal mean
Separation of powers between different powers examples state national local level
What does ordinance mean
A local law
What does biennial mean
Every two years
What does bureaucracy mean
The 3 million people who work for executive branch
What does pardon mean
When the president excuses somebody or government get out of jail free cards
What does annual mean
Once a year
What does judicial review mean
Supreme court reviews a law to see if it constitutional
What does enumerated mean
Powers are expressed in the constitution
What does implied mean
Powers are not specifically written down
What does derived mean
Where it comes from
What does levy mean
To put a tax in place
What does interstate mean
Between states
What does diplomat mean
Dealing with foreign country’s
What does supreme mean
Ultimate, highest
What does expressed mean
Written down or listed
What does promote mean
Raise and rank or power
What does conduct mean
How you act
What does regulate mean
To control
What does delegate mean
To give power or authority to someone else
What does impose mean
To put in place
What does ambassador mean
A person from foreign country who represent their country and our country
What does regulate mean
To control
What does committee mean
Where all bills start in congress
Who is the head of the executive branch
The president
What are the executive branches jobs
Enforcing laws, preparing budget for congressional action, appointing cabinet officers, and Ambassadors and federal judges Administers the federal bureaucracy, commanding Armed Forces,
Who makes up the executive branch
President, vice president, cabinet, federal agencies
Who enforces the bureaucracy in the US
Executive branch
Who makes up Congress
House of representatives – 435 members
What is the main job of Congress
Making laws
The blank amendment places a term limit on the presidency
22nd
Must be blank and blank your resident and a natural born citizen to be a present
35, 14
Who was the only president to win more than two terms
Franklin D Roosevelt
What I didn’t let the US through the depression and World War II
Franklin D Roosevelt
What is the role of the chief diplomat
Conduct foreign policy by directing the actions of American ambassadors
Signed treaties and trade agreement with leaders of other nations
What is the role of the chief legislator
Congress has the power to make laws
President can propose bills and must sign bills into laws
What is the role of the chief of the party
President help members of their party get elected or appointed to Office
They make campaign speech is needed for reelection
Had a fundraising for the party
