Review Midterm V Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| The power of the courts to declare acts of the legislature and of the executive to be unconstitutional | Judicial review |
| Law passed in 1993 to make it easier for Americans to register to vote | Motor-Voter Bill |
| A legislative act pronouncing a person guilty of a crime, without trial | Bill of attainder |
| A law that makes criminal an act that was legal when it was committed | Ex post facto |
| Cases heard by the Supreme Court that do not come on appeal and that "affect ambassadors, consuls, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a State shall be a party." | Original Jurisdiction |
| An electoral system, used in almost all American election, in which the winner is the person who gets the most votes, even if he or she does not receive a majority of the votes | Plurality |
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