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Congress can do the following:

Make laws

Propose amendments to the Constitution

Approve personal expense reports

Propose the new president

An amendment to the US Constitution can be defined as

A law

A choice

A change or addition

Can only be made by a 2/3 majority vote in Congress and 3/4 of states approving

The Bill of Rights is

A bill for American rights

A charge to be an American

The first 10 amendments to the US Constitution protecting individual rights

Not a necessary part of government

How many amendments to the Constitution are there?

The Supreme Court is

The highest court in the United States

The main decision making body of the US government

Focuses on human rights and passing laws that will benefit the country

Housed in Washington DC, but has courtrooms in every major city in the nation

The 14th Amendment (Plessy vs Ferguson) was decided over which civil rights action?

Voting rights for women

"Separate but equal"; segregation should be banned

Free college

Segregated education

The Supreme Court case, "Brown vs the Board of Education" focused on what civil right?

Non-segregated education

Segregated education

Making racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional

Free public education

Elections at local and state levels are decided by

Ballot

Popular vote

The electoral college

Senators and Representatives

A polling place is

Where you go to vote

Where opinions are gathered for a survey

Where fishing poles are made

Where votes are counted

For a US presidental election, the deciding vote can be cast by

The Electoral College

Congress

The Supreme Court

The people

GED Social Studies - Politics & Activism