| Question | Answer |
| A form of government in which the leader has the absolute powe and authority | Dictatorship |
| Those persons who supported the ratification of te constitution in 1787-1788 | Federalists |
| The power of a court to determine the constitionalit of a governmental action | Judicial Review |
| A change in, or additicn to, a constitution or law | Amendment |
| Formal approved, final censene to the effectiveness of a constitution, constituational amendmendment, or treaty | Ratification |
| Delegated powers of the National Government that are suggested by the experssed powers set out in the constitution; those necessary and proper to carry out expressed power | Implied Power |
| Change or addition that becomes part of the written language of the constitution itself through 1 of 4 methods set forth in the constitution | Formal Amendment |
| The drawing of the eleteral district lines to the advantage of a party of group | Gerrymandering |
| Basic principle that government and those who govern must obey the law; the rule of law | Consitutionalism |
| A joining of several group for a common purpose | Confederation |
| Basic principle of American system of government, that the executive, legislative, and judicial powers are divided among 3 independent and coequal branches of government | Separation of Powers |
| Those persons who apposed the ratification of the constitution | Anti-Federalists |
| System government in which public policies are made by officials selected by the voters and held accoutable in periodic elections | Representative Government |
| Basic principle of the American system of government which asserts that the people are the source of any and all government powers, and govenment can | Popular Sovereignty |
| A formal agreement between 2 or more sovereign states | Treaty |
| parties based on a particular set of beliefs, a comprehonsive view of social, economic, and polilical matters | Idealogieal Parties |
| Those powers that can be exercised by the National Government alone | Exepressed Powers |
| The powers to interpret laws to determine their meaning and to settle disputes within the society | Judicial Powers |
| A form of government in which the supreme authority rests wit the people | Democracy |
| Basic principle of American government which state that government is restricted in what it may do and each individual has right that government cannot take away | Limited Government |
| Instiution through which society makes and enforces its public policies | Government |
| Least number of members who must be present for a legislative body to conduct business majority | Quarum |
| a legislative boby wich one chamber | Uncameral |
| A city's basic law, it's constitution; a written grant of authority from the king | Charter |
| An adjustment of opposing principles or systems by modifying some aspect of each | Compromise |
| All of the people entitled to vote in a given election | Electorate |
| All of the man goals that a government pursues in all of the many area of human affairs in which it is involved | Public Policy |
| Organized by a proprietor ( a prerson to whom the king had made a grant of land) | Proprietary |
| A form of government in which the executive branch is made up of the prime minister, or premier and that official's cabinet | Parliamentary Government |
| An adjective describing a legislative body composed of 2 champers | Bicameral |
| System of overlapping powers of he legislative, executive, and judicial branches to permit each branch to check the actions of the others | Checks and Balances |
| The current offic holders | Ineument |
| Powers the constitution is presumed to have delogated to the National Government because it is the government of a sovereign state within the world community | Inherent Powers |
| a change to the meaning or interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. | Informal Amendment |
| A system of government in which a written consitution divides power between a central, or national, government and several regional government | Federalism |
| Contrary to constitutionial provision and so illeged, null and void, of no force and effect | Unconstitutional |
| A term used to describe people who have no parts affiliation | Independents |
| Presidential advisory body traditionally made up of the heads of the executive departments and other officers | Cabinet |
| people living in the defined territory who have government with power that make and enforce law without content of any higher authority | State |
| of or from the people, the average votes | Grass Roots |
| Chief executive's power to reject a bill passed by a legislature, literally (Latin)"I forbid" | Vieto |
| Refusal to buy or sell certain products or services | Boycott |
| A form of government in which the executive and legislative branches of the government are separate, independent, and coequal | Presidential Government |
| A party nominating election in which only declared party members can vote | closed primary |
| Introduction | Preamble |
| Group of persons chosen in each State and the District of Columbia every 4 years who make a formal selection of the president and vice president | Electoral Collage |
| Group of delegates who drafted the United States constitution @ the philadelphia convetion in 1787 | Farmers |
| A centralized government in which government powers belong to a single,contral agenccy | Unitary Government |
| A pact made by the president directily with the head of a foreign state; a buling inernational agreement with the froce of law but does not require senate consent | Executive Agreement |
| Privit organizations whose member share certain views and work shape poblic pocliey | |
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