Unit 4 National Goverment Notes Questions

Question 1

what outlines the structure of the national goverment?

Answer 1

The US constitution

Question 2

What is federalsim?

Answer 2

The national and state both have powers

Question 3

Whih level in our federal system of goverment is supereme?

Answer 3

national goverment

Question 4

What are the primary responsibilities of the national goverment?

Answer 4

conduct forein policy regulate commerce provide for th common defense

Question 5

What is forign policy?

Answer 5

It is our goverments relationship with other countries

Question 6

What is commerce?

Answer 6

Means trade (National goverment regulates trade between states and with other countries)

Question 7

What are reserved powers?

Answer 7

powers set aside for state goverments

Question 8

Which amendement created reserved powers?

Answer 8

10th amendement

Question 9

What is a federal mandate?

Answer 9

when the national goverment requieres action by the state goverment.

Question 10

What are examles of reserved powers?

Answer 10

licensing, education, promoting public health, and welfaree

Question 11

What are concurrent powers?

Answer 11

Powers that are shared the national and state goverments(ex, taxtion)

Question 12

What are three branches

Answer 12

legislative, excutive, and judicial

Question 13

What does separation of powers mean?

Answer 13

each branch of goverment has its own separate and distinct.

Question 14

What are checks and balances?

Answer 14

The power to limit the powers of the other branches of goverment.

Question 15

What’s congress

Answer 15

Legislative branch

Question 16

What fdoes bicarmera mean?

Answer 16

two chambersE

Question 17

What is the legislature?

Answer 17

a lawmaking body

Question 18

What are the two chambers of congress?

Answer 18

House of representives and the Senate a count of how many citizens live in a state; occurs every ten years and determines representation in the House of Representatives .

Question 19

What is census

Answer 19

a count of how many citizens live in a state; occurs every ten years and determines representation in the House of Representatives

Question 20

The house was meant to reperesent who?

Answer 20

The people

Question 21

he senate was meant to repreasent who?

Answer 21

The states

Question 22

What is the total number of botth the house and senate?

Answer 22

535

Question 23

how may memebers are in the senate

Answer 23

100

Question 24

How long is a senate term?

Answer 24

6 years

Question 25

How many senators are from each state?

Answer 25

2

Question 26

how many memebeers are in the house.

Answer 26

425

Question 27

How long is a house term

Answer 27

2 years

Question 28

What are expressed powers

Answer 28

The power of congress that are speciffecally listed(written) in th7e consitition

Question 29

What are examples of exressed powers?

Answer 29

making laws for the approving the annual budget, raising revenue (money) through taxes, fee, and fines, cnonfirming presidental appppoinments, regulating interstate and foreign trade, declareing war

Question 30

What are implied powers?

Answer 30

these are powers that are not stated in the consitituion but are used to carry out expressed powers.

Question 31

what is the main function (job) of congress

Answer 31

making laws

Question 32

what are the basic steps for how a bill becomes a law?

Answer 32

1.intrduce the bill in either the house or senate 2. assign bill to a comitee 3.debated on the floor of the house or senate (which on it was introduced in) 4. Vote in the house or senate (which one it was in) 5. sent to thhe other chamber of congresss where steps 2-4 are the repeated 6. if the bill passes both chamber of ongress it goes to president who can either sig or verb (stop it)

Question 33

Why are laws created

Answer 33

in order to fix issues

Question 34

what is lobbying?

Answer 34

is how inviduals or interest groups try to influence legilstlave to

Question 35

what is bill

Answer 35

a draft of a law

Question 36

How can inviduas shape legislation or infulence olicy making?

Answer 36

Voting campainging or holding public office; join an interst group

Question 37

What do interest groups do?

Answer 37

identify issues of importance, make political contributions (give money) to political campaigns, lobbying

Question 38

Who is in charge of running the federal goverment including overseeing the cabinet deparment, executive agencies, and regulatory groups?

Answer 38

the President

Question 39

What does the Cabinet do?

Answer 39

Advises the president and helps ru the various departments of the federal goverment (ex: Department of Defense, Deppartment of Justive

Question 40

What is the main job of the executive branch?

Answer 40

enfore the law, carry out the law excute the laws

Question 41

What is the president role in the lawmaking process?

Answer 41

pro pose legislation apporve or veto legislation carry out the laws by appointing officails apeal to citizen to supprt or reject legislation

Question 42

what is the president role as chief of state?

Answer 42

ceremnial headd of goverment

Question 43

what is the president role of chief excutive

Answer 43

head of executive branch

Question 44

what is the preidents role as chef legislator?

Answer 44

Propose a legislatve agent to congress

Question 45

What is the president role as commander in cheif?

Answer 45

head of nations armed forces

Question 46

what is the president role as chief of the party?

Answer 46

leader of political party

Question 47

what is the presidents role as chief of the party?

Answer 47

leader of the political party