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A change in, or additicn to, a constitution or law   Amendment  
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Those persons who apposed the ratification of the constitution   Anti-Federalists  
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An adjective describing a legislative body composed of 2 champers   Bicameral  
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Refusal to buy or sell certain products or services   Boycott  
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Presidential advisory body traditionally made up of the heads of the executive departments and other officers   Cabinet  
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A city's basic law, it's constitution; a written grant of authority from the king   Charter  
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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  
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An adjustment of opposing principles or systems by modifying some aspect of each   Compromise  
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Basic principle that government and those who govern must obey the law; the rule of law   Consitutionalism  
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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  
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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  
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Those powers that can be exercised by the National Government alone   Exepressed Powers  
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A system of government in which a written consitution divides power between a central, or national, government and several regional government   Federalism  
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Those persons who supported the ratification of te constitution in 1787-1788   Federalists  
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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  
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Group of delegates who drafted the United States constitution @ the philadelphia convetion in 1787   Farmers  
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Instiution through which society makes and enforces its public policies   Government  
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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  
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a change to the meaning or interpretation of the Constitution of the United States.   Informal Amendment  
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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  
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The powers to interpret laws to determine their meaning and to settle disputes within the society   Judicial Powers  
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The power of a court to determine the constitionalit of a governmental action   Judicial Review  
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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  
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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  
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Introduction   Preamble  
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Organized by a proprietor ( a prerson to whom the king had made a grant of land)   Proprietary  
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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  
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Least number of members who must be present for a legislative body to conduct business majority   Quarum  
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Formal approved, final censene to the effectiveness of a constitution, constituational amendmendment, or treaty   Ratification  
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System government in which public policies are made by officials selected by the voters and held accoutable in periodic elections   Representative Government  
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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  
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people living in the defined territory who have government with power that make and enforce law without content of any higher authority   State  
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A formal agreement between 2 or more sovereign states   Treaty  
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Contrary to constitutionial provision and so illeged, null and void, of no force and effect   Unconstitutional  
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a legislative boby wich one chamber   Uncameral  
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Chief executive's power to reject a bill passed by a legislature, literally (Latin)"I forbid"   Vieto  
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A joining of several group for a common purpose   Confederation  
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A form of government in which the supreme authority rests wit the people   Democracy  
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A form of government in which the leader has the absolute powe and authority   Dictatorship  
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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  
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A form of government in which the executive and legislative branches of the government are separate, independent, and coequal   Presidential Government  
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A centralized government in which government powers belong to a single,contral agenccy   Unitary Government  
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A party nominating election in which only declared party members can vote   closed primary  
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All of the people entitled to vote in a given election   Electorate  
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The drawing of the eleteral district lines to the advantage of a party of group   Gerrymandering  
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of or from the people, the average votes   Grass Roots  
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parties based on a particular set of beliefs, a comprehonsive view of social, economic, and polilical matters   Idealogieal Parties  
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The current offic holders   Ineument  
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A term used to describe people who have no parts affiliation   Independents  
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Privit organizations whose member share certain views and work shape poblic pocliey    
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