1. The Constitution provides for three main branches of government, which are …
2. The System of checks and balances keeps …
3. The System of checks of balances protects against extremes, which means that …
4. The System of checks and balances makes …
5. The President has the power to …
6. The power to impeach and remove the President belongs to …
7. This is the Senate that can …
8. Possessing the power of judicial review the Supreme Court can
II. Read the following sentences and say whether they are true or false.
1. Under the US Constitution the three branches are absolutely separate and independent from one another.
2. The US citizens associate the government with Congress.
3. The US President doesn’t have the absolute power in the country.
4. The Executive branch nominates judges to the Supreme Court and the federal court system.
5. The President can amend the Constitution to overturn decisions of the Supreme Court.
6. Congress can impeach and remove the President.
7. It is the Senate that can overturn a Presidential veto.
8. The federal court system can use the power of judicial review to rule laws, presidential actions or treaties unconstitutional.
Word Study
I. Translate the following lexical units from the text from English into Russian, prepare questions with these lexical units, based on the text.
to gain power, to misuse power, to submit smth (the Federal Budget) to smth (the House of Representatives), to carry out laws, to grant amnesty, to overturn smth (a veto, decisions), to reject (treaties/nominations/nominees, etc), the power of judicial review, to rule laws/actions/treaties unconstitutional.
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