German US Constitution

Our Constitution
By German Montiel

Leaders and their titles

❏ Legislative leaders are the Congress senate and house of representatives
❏ Executive leaders are the president vice president and cabinet
❏ Judicial leaders are supreme court and other federal courts

The Three branches of
government

The Three Branches jobs and houses

❏ The Legislative branch makes up laws, decals wars and controls taxes
❏ Executive branch is were the president of the United States stays and carries out laws

being able reject a proposal for a law
❏ The judicial branch includes criminal and civil courts and helps interpret laws

Real life
picture of the
three
branches of

Members of the three branches of government

Legislative members
There are 100 Senators 2 from each state
There are 435 Representatives

Executive members
The President has about 5,000,000 workers

Judicial members
Includes the Supreme Court and 9 Justices

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Members of the three
branches of government

Requirements and terms of office

If you running for president
❏ must be a natural born citizen of the United States
❏ a resident for 14 years
❏ 35 years of age or older
If your running for vice president
❏ must be a natural born citizen of the United States
❏ a resident for 14 years
❏ 35 years of age or older
If your running for Senate:
❏ age (at least thirty years of age);
❏ U.S. citizenship (at least nine years); and
❏ residency in the state a senator represents at time of election.

Checks and Balances

Position TTerm Minimum Age Residency Citizenship
President 4 Years 35
14 years in the Natural born
35 US

Vice President 4 years None 14 Years in the Natural Born
30 US

Supreme Unlimited None None
Senator 6 years
State which 9 years
elected

Office Holders

Legislative
Senators : Kamala Harris Dianne Feinstein
Representative : Doug LaMalfa Jared Huffman are just some Representatives
Executive :
President: Donald Trump
Vice President : Mike Pence
Cabinet leaders: Sonny Perdue ,William Barr ,Agency Gina Haspel ,Wilbur L. Ross, Jr.
,Mark Esper and Prince DeVos
Judicial
Chief justice: John Roberts
Associate Justice :Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer Samuel Alito

Explanation of the following processes

❏ Impeachment in the United States is the process by which a legislature brings
charges against a civil officer of government for crimes alleged to have been
committed analogous

❏ bill becomes a law because it Refuse to sign or veto the bill. The bill is sent back to
the US House of Representatives along with the Presidents reasons of veto

❏ The amendment may be proposed either by the Congress with a two thirds
majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a
constitutional

Five Principlas of Government

Federalism: is a method of government that allows two or more entities to share
control over the same geographic region.
Separation of powers: is a doctrine of constitutional law under which the three
branches of government executive legislative and judicial are kept separate.
Checks and Balances: was to make sure no one branch would be able to control too
much power and it created a separation of powers.
Limited Government: bound to specific principles and actions by a state or federal
constitution
Popular Sovereignty: is the principle that the authority of a state and its
government are created and sustained by the consent of its people through their
elected representatives