Regularized or patterned activities that shape the behavior of individuals and groups, including formal organizations like the state or political parties as well as more informal institutions such as norms and values.

Fundamental and supreme laws, usually written in a charter, that establish the basis of a political system and the basis for other laws.

The limitation of government through a constitution.

Constitutional design

Features of constitutions that shape the basic features of the political system, such as separation of powers and responsibilities between levels of government and branches of government.

System of government with a constitutional design of separation of powers between the central government and subnational governments.

System of government in which the central government is predominant and the powers of subnational governments are limited to those delegated by the center.

The division of powers in a government system between branches of government or between levels of government.

The branch of government responsible for the interpretation of laws in courts.

System of constitutional interpretation in which judges rule on the constitutionality of laws passed by legislature and executive.

parliamentary sovereignty

System in which the constitutionality of laws passed by the legislature and the executive are not subject to constitutional interpretation by the judiciary.

Term used, often pejoratively, to characterize judicial actions that actively reinterpret legislation and, thus, imply exercising powers typically reserved for the legislative branch.

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Unit 6

Chapter 8

Term	Definition
Institutions	Regularized or patterned activities that shape the behavior of individuals and groups, including formal organizations like the state or political parties as well as more informal institutions such as norms and values.
constitution	Fundamental and supreme laws, usually written in a charter, that establish the basis of a political system and the basis for other laws.
constitutionalism	The limitation of government through a constitution.
Constitutional design	Features of constitutions that shape the basic features of the political system, such as separation of powers and responsibilities between levels of government and branches of government.
federalism	System of government with a constitutional design of separation of powers between the central government and subnational governments.
unitarism	System of government in which the central government is predominant and the powers of subnational governments are limited to those delegated by the center.
separation of powers	The division of powers in a government system between branches of government or between levels of government.
judiciary	The branch of government responsible for the interpretation of laws in courts.
judicial review	System of constitutional interpretation in which judges rule on the constitutionality of laws passed by legislature and executive.
parliamentary sovereignty	System in which the constitutionality of laws passed by the legislature and the executive are not subject to constitutional interpretation by the judiciary.
judicial activism	Term used, often pejoratively, to characterize judicial actions that actively reinterpret legislation and, thus, imply exercising powers typically reserved for the legislative branch.

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