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vocabulary 2-2
Term | Definition |
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Amendments | changes in the Constitution |
Antifederalists | opponents to the Constitution |
Bellicose | warlike |
Bowdlerize | remove passages considered offensive from a book or play |
Checks and balances | system that prevents any branch of government from having more power than the others |
Chicanery | the use of clever but tricky talk or action to deceive or evade |
Chromosome | any of several threadlike bodies, consisting of chromatin, that carry the genes in a linear order |
Churlish | stingy or mean |
Circumlocution | a roundabout or lengthy way of expressing something |
Circumnavigate | to sail or fly around, specifically the Earth |
Enumerated powers | those powers given to the federal government |
Federalists | those in support of the Constitution |
Impeach | to accuse a public official before an appropriate tribunal of misconduct in office |
Reserved powers | those powers given to the states |
Veto | to reject |