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Unit Five American and British Political Systems

Passage 1 American Civics



Explain the following expressions with the context.

    1.Civics______________________________________________

    2.civic life____________________________________________

    3.classic liberalism_____________________________________

    4.civic virtue _________________________________________

    5.the legislative, executive and judicial branches of the federal government ___________________________________________________

     

Answers:

    1.An international civic education exchange program. People’s civic life involves issues that ffect their community and their nation.

    2.Classic liberalism represents the idea that governments are created by the people, for the people.

    3.The virtue that people put the interests of society before their own.

    4.The legislative branch is Congress, made up of the House of Representatives and the Senate.

    5.The judicial branch is the Supreme Court and the federal court system. The executive branch is the president and the fifteen cabinet-level agencies.