Check Your Understanding

1.–2. Work with a partner to complete each item.

• 1. Make Comparisons Finish the chart about the legislative, the executive, and judicial branches of government.

  Legislative Branch	Executive Branch	Judicial Branch
  includes senators and congressmen	includes the President	includes Supreme Court justices

• 2. Sum It Up Use your chart to tell how the branches of the U.S. government are different. Tell about the different powers they have.

Review Vocabulary

3.–7. Read the paragraph aloud. Add the vocabulary words.

When this country’s ______ was planned, people wanted the ______ to make choices. They ______ that no one branch of government should have too much ______. The ______ in the Constitution say what each branch of government can and can’t do.

Write about Jobs

8. Write about the jobs of the leaders in your school.