Chapter 5
Terms
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- Bill of Rights
- first ten amendments of the Constitution
- veto
- when the president says no to a law
- judicial branch
- judges the laws
- precedent
- a tradition that is followed
- Great Comprmise
- a compromise that decided to have a bicameral gov't: two senators from each state and representation according to population
- checks and balances
- a type of government where one branch can check another and no one branch can have too much power.
- Republic
- type oif government where people vote for leaders
- Articles of Confederation
- first from of written government where states had more power than the federal gov't
- Cabinet
- people who work under the president and run offices.
- legislative branch
- the branch that makes the laws
- 3/5 Compromise
- slaves were counted as 3/5 of a person
- Electoral College
- electors that vote for the president
- amend
- to change
- Inauguration
- the day the president takes office
- separation of powers
- three branches of government
- Constitution
- law of the land- written by Founding Fathers