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Government Vocab par
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| eminent domain | the governments power to take personal property for the public good |
| executive branch | division of the federal government that includes the president the administrative department enforces the laws |
| executive order | non legislative directive issued by the U.S. president in certain circumstances , an executive order has the force of congressional laws |
| Federalism | system of government in which power is distributed between a central authority individual laws |
| Impeach | to vote to bring charges against |
| indict | to formally accuse of |
| INFLATION | increased price for goods and services combined with the reduced value of money |
| Interstate commerce | trade that is conducted between states |
| Judicial branch | decide constitutionality of law made up of the national courts interprets laws, punishes criminals and settles disputes between states |
| legislative branch | congress makes the laws, senate 30 years old 2 per state article 1 section 8 gives power |
| limited government | a political principle which holds that government should be bond by laws that limits power |
| naturalized citizen | a person born in another country who has been granted citizenship |
| pardon | freedom from a punishment |
| PETITION | A FORMAL Request |
| Political Action Comity | organizations that collect money to distribute to canidates who support the same issues as the contributors |
| Popular Sovereignty | the idea that political authority belongs to the people also a principle that would allow voters in a particular territory to decide whether to ban or permit slavery. |
| ratification | formal approval |
| representative democracy | a government that is composed of representatives of people |
| republicanism | support for a system of representative government |
| reserved powers | powers retained by the state government of by citizens |
| search warrant | a judges order authorizing the search of a persons home or property to look for evidence of crime |
| seperation of powers | the division of the governmental power into distinct with diffrent branches of government execesicity diffrent powers prevents one ranch from being to powerful |
| suffrage | voting rights |
| tariffs | taxes on imports and exports |
| veto | TO CANCEL! (: |
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