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How the government works: the three branches
Who makes laws, who carries them out, and who interprets them.
- 1Congress makes lawsAll federal lawmaking power goes to Congress.
- 2The president carries out lawsExecutive power and how the president is chosen.
- 3Courts interpret lawsJudicial power and the Supreme Court.
- 4What Congress can doThe list of powers Congress has.
- 5The vetoHow the president and Congress check each other on laws.
- 6ImpeachmentHow officials can be removed for serious wrongdoing.
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