The Road to a Law: teacher key

How Laws Are Made, grade 6 edition, written for 6th grade. A law begins as an idea and travels through Congress to the president's desk. Then compare it with the way the United Kingdom makes its laws.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What did the Great Compromise give each state in the Senate?
   • Equal seats (answer)
   • Seats based on population
   • No seats
2. Which kind of veto can Congress not override?
   • A pocket veto (answer)
   • Every veto
   • A veto by a city council
3. Why must the House look at changes the Senate makes to a bill?
   • To let the president change it
   • So the two sides can work out their differences (answer)
   • To send it to the courts
4. In the last page, what is Parliament?
   • The group that makes laws in the United Kingdom (answer)
   • A court in the United States
   • A city council
5. Where does a bill go first after it is introduced?
   • To the president
   • To a committee (answer)
   • To the Supreme Court

Words

• bill: law plan
• veto: saying no
• committee: study group
• ordinances: local laws
• Parliament: UK lawmakers