Congress for Kids

Tour of Federal Government

Independence

Democracy
Democracy vs. Autocracy
The Original Thirteen Colonies
Declaration of Independence, Part 1
Declaration of Independence, Part 2
Articles of Confederation

Constitution

Delegates to Constitutional Convention
The Work Begins
Writing the Constitution
The Great Compromise
Signing the Constitution
Ratifying the Constitution
Bill of Rights
Powers of Federal Government
Three Branches of Government
Checks and Balances
Amendments
Women-Right to Vote

The Legislative Branch

House of Representatives
The Senate
Making Laws
The Veto

The Executive Branch

The President
President's Job, Part 1
President's Job, Part 2
President's Cabinet
The President and Congress
Impeachment
The President has Fun

The Judicial Branch

The Supreme Court
The Justices
Dealing with Segregation

Elections

Election Day
Voting
Election of the President
Candidates
Political Parties
The Primary Election
National Conventions
National Conventions-Inside View
Candidates at the Convention
The Campaign
Polling Places
The Electoral College
The Electoral Map
The Inauguration

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The Legislative Branch: The Veto

Checks and Balances: The Line Item Veto
http://www.congresslink.org/lessonplans/lineitem.html
Lesson Plan - Perform a series of activities culminating in a persuasive letter to Congress Member. Citing evidence from primary sources, construct a position on the Line-Item Veto Amendment. You will demonstrate your knowledge, understanding, and mastery of the concepts of checks and balances in their letter.

How An Idea Becomes a Law
http://www.col-ed.org/cur/sst/sst87.txt
Lesson Plan - Gives you a chance to visualize the step-
by-step process of how an idea becomes a law and how
involved the process is, including an understanding of the veto process.

The Legislative Process
http://www.thisnation.com/quizzes/quiz05.html
Multiple-Choice Quiz

The Veto Process
http://www.congresslink.org/lessonplans/CKVeto.html
Lesson Plan - Learn to summarize the veto and override process as outlined in the U.S. Constitution and used by the executive and legislative branches and research and graph the correlation among the political control of the respective branches, bills introduced, and the number of vetoes and overrides.

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