| 1. What kind of government does the United States?問: 美國政府是何種政體?
Answer: Republic.
答:共和政體.
2. What is a republic?
問:何謂共和政體.
Answer: Government of the people represented
through elected officials.
答: 代表人民的政府經由選舉而來.
3. How many branches are in the United States government and what are they?
問: 美國政府有多少部門?它們是什麼?
Answer: There are three branches, the Legislative, the Executive,
and the Judicial.
答: 三個部門: 立法院,行政院,及司法部.
4. Why is the United States government divided into three branches?
問: 為何美國政府要分為三個部門呢?
Answer: Because we do not want any one person or group to have too
much power, By having three branches we can maintain a system of checks and balances.
答: 因為我們不要任何人或集團有太多的權力.
有三個部門我們才能保持互相監視平衡.
5. What are the colors of the United States flag and what does each represent?
問: 美國國旗是什麼顏色? 它們代表什麼意義?
Answer: Red , white , and blue. Red stands for courage, white
stands for truth, and blue stands for justice.
答: 紅, 白,藍.
紅代表勇敢, 白代表誠實,藍代表公正.
6. How many stars and stripes the United States flag have?
問: 美國國旗有多少顆星及多少橫條?
Answer: Fifty stars , one for each state in the Union: and
thirteen stripes , one for each of the original thirteen states. There are seven red stripes and
six white stripes.
答: 五十顆星, 每一顆代表聯邦的一個州,
十三條橫條, 每一條代表最初開國的十三個州.
它們是七條紅條及六條白條.
7. How is an amendment to the Constitution made?
問: 憲法修正案是如何產生?
Answer: It is passed by both Houses of Congress by 2/3vote. Then
it must be ratified by 3/4of the state legislatures.
答: 它是經過參眾兩院三分之二的 表決通過,經四分之三州議員的認可.
8. What is the 26th Amendment?
問: 什麼是第二十六條修正案?
Answer: It gives eighteen year olds the right to vote.
答: 它是給予年滿十八歲的公民選舉權.
9. What are the principles of the Constitution?
問: 憲法原則是什麼?
Answer: Liberty, equality, and justice.
答: 自由, 平等與公正.
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