Civics test winter 2006
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- three branches of government
- legislative, executive, and judicial
- legislature
- makes laws
- executive
- enforces laws
- judicial
- interprets laws
- Federalism
- shared power between national government and state
- delegated/expressed powers
- specifically written into the Constitution
- implied powers
- can be reasonably seen as belonging to the national government by the "elastic clause"
- inherent powers
- powers of an independent country
- reserved powers
- powers of the state- establishes local governments, conducts elections, regulates trade routes within the states, and ratifies amendments to the constitution
- shared/concurrent powers
- done by by state and national gov.- taxing, courts, making laws, and providing for welfare of the people
- denied powers
- cannot be done by state or national gov.- tax exports and states cannot make treaties/coin money
- checks and balances
- how each branch of government keeps an eye on the other branches
- what are 3 examples of checks and balances
- executive can veto laws, legislative can override veto, and judicial can declare a law to be unconstitutional
- who elects the president?
- electoral college
- how many votes must the candidate receive to win and how many are possible?
- 270-538
- when is election day?
- tuesday after the first monday in november every 4 years
- how long is a presidential term?
- 2 four year terms or 10 years
- how long is a rep. term?
- 2 years
- how long is a senator's term?
- 6 years