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vocabulary words
acos 4.0 esl vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Popular sovereignty | government subject to the will of the people, before the civil war, the idea that people living in a territory had the right to decide by voting if slavery would be allowed there. |
| federalism | political system in which power is divided between the national and state government |
| Separation of powers | Government principle in which power id divided among different branches |
| Legislative branch | A branch of government that makes the nation’s laws |
| Executive branch | branch of government that implements and enforces laws |
| Judicial branch | branch of government that interprets laws and renders judgment in cases involving those laws |
| Checks and balances | the system in which each branch of government has the ability to limit the power of the other branches to prevent any from becoming too powerful |
| impeach | to formally charge a public official with misconduct in office |
| amendments | A change to the constitution |
| veto | power of the chief executive to reject laws passed by the legislature |