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U.S. Constitution
study Constitution
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Concurrent Power | Power shared by the states and federal government. |
| Separation of Power | The division of authority among executive, legislative, and judicial branches to make sure no one branch has to much. |
| Contradict | To go against or state the opposite. |
| Involve | To include. |
| Judicial Review | Power of Supreme Court to say whether any federal state or local law or government action goes against the constitution. |
| Due Process | The legal rules and procedures established by law guaranteed by the constitution that the government must observe before depriving a person of life, liberty or property. |
| Equal Protection | The equal application of the law regrades of a person's race, religion, political beliefs or other qualities. |
| Naturalization | The process of being citizens of another country |
| Administrate | To carry out |
| Diminish | To reduce make smaller |
| Impeachment | To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office |
| Preamble | The introduction to a formal document that often tells why the document was written |
| Constitution | A detailed written plan for government a list of basic cause that support a government. |
| Original Jurisdiction | Authority to be the first court to hear a case |
| Implied Power | Authority not specifically mentioned in the constitution but suggested in its language |
| Popular Sovereignty | The belief that government is subject to the will of the people. |
| Limited Government | Idea that a government may only use the powers given to it by the people. |
| Enumerated Power | Power specifically given congress in the constitution. |
| Reserved Power | Authority Belonging to the states. |
| 1st Amendment | Prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion and freedom of speech freedom of press fight to assume petitioning for a government redress of grivances |
| 2nd Amendment | Right to keep and bear arms |
| 3rd Amendment | Prohibits the forced quartering of soldiers during peacetime |
| 4th Amendment | Prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures you will need a search warrant |
| 5th Amendment | Sets out rules for indictment by grand jury and eminent domain protects self-incrimination and double jeopardy. |
| 6th Amendment | Fair, speedy trial. |
| 7th Amendment | Provides for the right to trial by jury in certain civil cases according to common law |
| 8th Amendment | Prohibits excessive fines and excessive hail as well as cruel and unusual punishment |
| 9th Amendment | Protest rights not enumerated byz the constitution |
| 10th Amendment | Limits powers |
| 11th Amendment | Limits jurisdiction of federal court suits against |
| 12th Amendment | President and vice President run on same ticked |
| 13th Amendment | Abolishment of slavery |
| 14th Amendment | Right for citizen black or white have equal rights |
| 15th Amendment | Prohibits the governments from preventing men of all colors voting |
| 16th Amendment | Allows government to collect income tax |
| 17th Amendment | direct elections of senators |
| 18th Amendment | Prohibits alcohol |
| 19th Amendment | Guarantees women's right to vote |
| 20th Amendment | Lame Duck |
| 21st Amendment | sale and manufacturing of alcohol |
| 22nd Amendment | President gets two terms |
| 23rd Amendment | allows people who live Washington D.C. |
| 24th Amendment | Supreme court ban poll taxes |
| 25th Amendment | Presidential succession |
| 26th Amendment | Suffrage for 18 year olds |
| 27th Amendment | Congressional rivers |
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