Know the qualifications and terms of each of the following Legislative, executive, judicial

Legislature  House of representatives  Age 25  Resident of district  Citizen for 7 yrs  Term 2 years  Leader- Speaker of House  Total 435 members  Senate  Age 30  Resident of state  Citizen for 9 yrs  Term 6 yrs  Leader- Vice president  Total 100 members

Executive  President  Age 35  Resident 14 years  Natural born citizen  Term 4 years  Maximum 2 terms or 10 years

Judicial  No age requirements  Term for life

Duties legislature  Make laws necessary for government  Override presidents veto  Makes laws controlling trade between states and between the United States and other countries.  Raises and supports armed forces  Approves treaties  Approves the making of money.  Can declare war on other countries

Duties executive  Carry out or enforce the laws  Proposes laws  Can veto laws  Negotiate foreign treaties  Commander and chief of armed forces  Appoints ambassadors, federal judges and other high officials

Duties judicial  Review the laws Interprets the law  Can declare laws unconstitutional  Can declare executive actions unconstitutional  JURISDICTION  Appellate  Original

How a bill becomes a law Then It goes to a committee

Amending the Constitution

terms  Federalism- division of power between state and federal government  Republicanism- representative form of government  Constituents- citizens that are being representative  Appropriates-set aside money

 Impeach- accuse of wrongdoing  Revenue- money  Treason- crimes against one’s country  Warrant-document allowing legal search  Majority- more than half

 Checks and balances- Each branch of government can check the power of the other two to insure no branch becomes too powerful

Key Amendments  1 st - freedoms of speech, press, religion, assembly and petition  2 nd -right to bear arms  4 th – search and seizure  5 th -rights of the accused  8 th -cruel and unusual punishment  13,14,15- civil war amendments ended slavery, defined citizenship and voting

 16 th - income tax  19 th woman’s suffrage

Marbury Vs Madison  Defined the duty of the Supreme court as Judicial review when Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that a law passed by congress was unconstitutional