Rules are made by people who are in charge of a group. At school, your principal and teachers make the rules. Sometimes teachers ask students to help pick classroom rules too! In a city or town, leaders meet at a place called City Hall to make rules called laws. In the United States, the people who make laws for the whole country work in a group called Congress.
The US Congress has 535 members. They work in Washington, D.C. When someone in Congress has an idea for a new law, it is called a bill. First, the members of Congress talk about the bill and sometimes change it. Then they vote on it. If enough members vote yes, the bill goes to the President. If the President signs it, the bill becomes a law! Cities and towns make rules in a similar way. People go to town hall meetings to share their ideas, and the city council votes on new rules.
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