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Goverment chap.2
Chapter 2 vocab: THe Constitution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Bicamerlism | two chamber legislature |
| connecticut Compromise | Lower chamber based on population, upper chamber based on equality |
| Divide Goverment | When one party controls the presidency, and the other party controls congress |
| Executive ordeer | Directive issued by a president or governor that has the force of a law |
| Executive Privilege | Power to keep executive communication confidental |
| Federalist papers | Series of essays promoting the radification of the constition: M/H/J |
| Impeachment | Formal accusations against a public offical |
| Natural Law | God's or Natures law; Higher than human |
| 3/5ths compromise | compromise that conts slaaves as 3/5th of vote; help determine representation of house of reps. |
| writ of mandamus | court order directing an offical to preform ann offical duty or action |
| unalienable | a human right based on nature or god |
| articale of confederation | a weak constitution that governed america during the revolutionary war |
| constitutional convention | a meeting in philadelphia in 1787 that produced a new constition |
| Shays rebellion | 1787 REbellion by ex- revolutionary war soliders tried to prevent foreclosures of farms because of high intrest rates and taxes |
| Virgina plan | proposal to create a strong goverment |
| New Jersy plan | proposal to create a weak national goverment |
| great compromise | see connecticut compromise |
| Republic | Elected reps. make the decisions |
| judical review | power of courts to make laws unconstitutional |
| Federalism | Goverment athority shared by local and stae goverment |
| Enumerated powers | Powers given to national goverment |
| Checks and blances | Powers shared by 3 branches |
| Reserved Powers | Powers given to state goverment alone |
| Conncurent powers | powers shared by nantional and state goverment |
| seperation of powers | COnstitiuntional authority is shared by 3 diffrent branches of goverment |
| Faction | A group with a distinc political interest |
| Ferderalist | THoes who favor a strong national goverment |
| ANti- Federalist | THoes who favor a weak national goverment |
| Coalition | On alience of faction |
| Bill of rights | First 10 amend ments of the constition |
| Habeas Corpus | an order to provide an arrested before a judge |
| Bill of Attainder | a law that declares a person w/o a trial to be guilty of a crime |
| Ex Post Facto law | A law that makes an act crinal although the act was legeal when it was commited |
| Amendment | a new privision in the constition that has been ratified by the state |
| Line item veto | an excutives ability to block a particular provisions in a bill by the lesgislature |
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