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vocabulary 2-2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |