Civics Ch. 3
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- jurisdiction
- area of law that a court may hear cases about
- elastic clause
- a clause that allows Congress to stretch the use of its powers
- supreme clause
- a clause in Article VI that declares the Constitution, acts of Congress, and treaties are the "supreme Law of the Land"
- amendments
- additions to the U.S. Constitution
- checks and balances
- each branch of government has duties that restrain the power of the other two branches
- federalism
- system in which power is divided between the states and the national government
- Framers
- writers of the Constitution
- judicial restraint
- to refrain from reading into the Constitution things that the framers never meant
- enumerate
- to number
- naturalization
- the process for people of other nations to become U.S. citizens
- appeal
- when one party to a lawsuit requests a further hearing
- popular sovereignty
- source of the national governments power comes from the people of the nation
- expressed powers
- powers that are stated directly in the Constitution
- seperation of powers
- each branch of government is given its own duties and responsibilities
- executive agreements
- informal documents made with other nations
- judicial review
- the principal that gives the courts the power to rule on the constitutionality of a law or action of local, state, or national goverment
- veto
- to reject a bill by refusing to sign it