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vocabulary
acos 4.0 esl vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Popular sovereignty | government subject to the will of the people p. 168 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 | the belief that men and women should be equal politically, economically and socially. |
| Separation of powers | government principle in which power is 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 law |
| 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 the office. |
| amendments | a change to the Constitutuion. |
| veto | power of the chief executive to reject laws passed by the legislature. |