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Ch 11 sec 1,2,&3
Ch 11 sec 1,2&3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Strict constructionist | Judges are often called upon to make a construction, or interpretation, of an unclear term in cases that involve a dispute over the term's legal significance. |
| Liberal constructionist | refers to persons who believe in a variety meanings for different parts of the constitution |
| Consensus | an opinion that all members of a group agree with |
| Direct tax | A tax is paid directly by an individual or organization to the imposing entity. |
| Indirect tax | :a tax exacted indirectly from a person other than the one on whom the ultimate burden of the tax is expected to fall. |
| Deficit financing | the financing of government expenditures by borrowing rather than by taxation |
| Public debt | Determinate of the country's exchange rate |
| Naturalization | to confer the rights of a national on; especially : to admit to citizenship |
| Copyright | The exclusive legal right to reproduce, publish, sell, or distribute the matter and form of something (as a literary, musical, or artistic work) |
| Patent | open to public inspection —used chiefly in the phrase letters patent |
| Eminent domain | a right of a government to take private property for public use by virtue of the superior dominion of the sovereign power over all lands within its jurisdiction |