LET’S FIND OUT GOVERNMENT WHAT IS THE CONSTITUTION JENNIFER WAY
WHAT IS THE CONSTITUTION Laws are the rules made by a government In the United States there are three levels of government local state and national Local governments make laws for cities towns and counties State governments make laws for a whole state The national government makes laws for the whole country You can view the United States Constitution at the National Archives in Washington D C 4
The U S Constitution is the most basic law of the United States government All local state and national laws must agree with it The Constitution also established a federal system for the country This means that the national government has certain powers and the states have other powers The Magna Carta shown here was signed by England’s King John The writers of the Constitution drew their ideas from many sources One important one was England’s Magna Carta Signed in the year 1215 it guaranteed basic rights to English people THINK ABOUT IT 5
