User:Jimmy Novik/013019/USGov

=Structure of the US Governement= The United States government consists of three branches: executive, legislative and judiciary.

Executive - President and the Cabinet (15 Executive Departments)

Legislative - Congress - the Senate and the House of Representatives

Judicial - The U.S. Supreme Court (Nine Justices), the appellate courts.

Legislative branch

 * The legislature, or congress, is charged with making laws.
 * Only congress can declare war
 * Senate approves key feeral appointments and ratifies foreign treaties
 * House of representatives has a large role in the fiscal area
 * Both houses of congress are involved in ratifying amendments to the Constitutions (Requires two-thirds majorities from both chambers and three-fourths of all state legislatures across the nation)