5th Grade - Constitution

a document that describes how a government will work

• Articles of Confederation

• A Cabinet

• Constitution

• A Convention

the meeting called by the states in 1787 to improve the Articles of Confederation that instead wrote a new constitution

• Constitution

• Constitutional Convention

• Cabinet

• Monarchy

a form of government in which the ruler is a king or queen

• Cabinet

• Executive

• Legislative

• Monarchy

the branch that makes laws

• legislative

• executive

• cabinet

• judicial

to accuse or charge a government official, such as the president, with a crime or misconduct

• compromise

• checks and balances

• monarchy

• impeach

to reject a bill and prevent it from becoming a law, a power that belongs only to the president

• compromise

• veto

• impeach

• checks and balances

an agreement in which each side gives up some of what it wants

• rule of law

• checks and balances

• compromise

• veto

the document that set up the first government of the United States; the government had limited power

• Executive Branch

• Cabinet

• Articles of Confederation

• Constitution

a group of advisors to the president, including the heads of important departments in the executive branch

• Veto

• Cabinet

• Rule of Law

• Judicial

the branch that carries out, or executes, laws

• Cabinet

• Legislative Branch

• Judicial Branch

• Executive Branch