5.3 Checks and Balances v12.21.21 (1)
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5.3 Assignment: Checks and Balances
Directions:
Read the following scenarios and describe how each action could be checked. Next, identify the part of the government that would check this
action. Please use scenario #1 as an example.
Scenario
Check
(1 point each)
Part of government responsible for check
(1 point each)
(EXAMPLE)
1. Both houses of Congress approve a bill
that requires all children under 18 to wear
uniforms to school.
The President could veto the bill or if the
President has already signed the bill, the Supreme
Court may rule it unconstitutional.
Executive branch or judicial branch
2. The President is accused of perjury (lying
under oath)
The president can be impeached
Legislative
3. The President signs a treaty that would
give Alaska to Russia.
Could declare the choice wrongful
Legislative
4. A federal judge is accused of accepting
bribes.
be impeached
Legislative
5. The President learns a man in federal
prison has obtained proof of his innocence
through DNA testing.
The president can pardon them
Executive
6. The President nominates his 13 year-old
sister to be a Supreme Court Justice.
congress can reject the appointment
legislative
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5.3 Assignment: Checks and Balances
Scenario
Check
(1 point each)
Part of government responsible for check
(1 point each)
7. The President vetoes a bill that has
passed both houses of Congress and is
very popular with legislators and the
American public.
overdo the veto
judicial
8. Congress passes and the President signs
a bill that forbids newspapers to criticize
government leaders.
judicial review
judicial
9. The President orders the CIA to tap into
and record the phone calls of all Americans
attending high school because he says he
doesn’t trust teenagers.
Can impeach the president and hae an
investigation against the executive branch id they
felt they needed to
Legislative
10. The Supreme Court rules that a
Congressional law is unconstitutional.
Constitutional amendments are able to be
proposed and are overruling the judicial
government actions as unconstitutional
Legislative
11. The President signs an executive
order banning a newspaper critical
of him.
The congress can declare if its unconstitutional
Executive
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