Branches of Government Legislative Executive Judicial Checks and

Branches of Government • Legislative • Executive • Judicial • Checks and Balances

Legislative Branch • Made up of Congress • Congress is broken into the House of Representative and the Senate Insert clip, Legislative Branch (01: 20), from United Streaming video: Legislative Branch, The Our Federal Government here.

Executive Branch • President heads branch • Makes sure that laws are obeyed • President gets help from the Vice President and Cabinet members Insert clip, Executive Branch People (03: 28), from United Streaming video: Executive Branch, The Our Federal Government here.

Judicial Branch • Made up of the court system • Supreme Court is the highest court in the land • There are 9 justices in the Supreme Court Insert clip, Judicial Branch Courts (01: 55), from United Streaming video: Judicial Branch, The: Our Federal Government here.

System of Checks and Balances • Checks and Balances -- Limits imposed on all branches of government by giving each the right to amend acts of the other branches. • A branch may use its powers to check the powers of the other two in order to maintain a balance of power among the other two branches of government

Branches of Government Quiz 1. The President heads this branch of government? 2. Which branch does Congress belong to? 3. This court is the highest in the land. 4. The Supreme Court is part of this branch of government. 5. What is Congress broken into? 6. How many Supreme Court justices are there? 7. Why do we need a system of checks and balances?