Civics vocab test
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- popular soverenty
- the idea that political autority belongs to people
- due process
- fair application by law
- sufferage
- voting rights
- apportionment
- the use of population to determine how many legislative representatives an area will have
- pardon
- freedom for punishment
- delegated powers
- powers that are specifically granted to the federal government by the constitution
- executive order
- non-legeslative directive issued by the U.S presendent in certain cercumstances; an executive order has the force of congresstional law
- cabinet
- group, made up or the heads of the executive departments that advises the president
- federalism
- system of goverment in which power is distrabuted between a central autority
- represenitive democracy
- a goverment that is composed of represenitives of the people
- reserved power
- powers contained by the state
- political action comitee
- organization that collects money
- republicinism
- support for a system of represenitves government known as a republic
- executive branch
- the division of the federal goverment that includes the president and the adminestrative department
- search warent
- judges order for searching for a criminal
- veto
- to cancel
- naturalized citizen
- a person born in another country who has been granted citizenship
- checks and balances
- a system established by the constitution that prevents any branch or government from being to powerful
- ratification
- formal approval
- draft
- a system of required services in the armed forces
- seperation of powers
- power into distinct areas with branches
- petition
- a formal request
- judical branch
- made up of the national court; interprets laws, punish crimanals, and settle diputes
- impeach
- to vote to bring charges agenst
- deport
- to send an immigrant back to his/her country or origin
- elastic clause
- article 1, section 8, of the constitution that has been printed as giving congress authority to stretch its delegated powers to address issues otherwise specific in the document; also known as the ressessory and proper clause
- legislative branch
- processes bills and passes them into laws
- amendment
- officail changes, corrections, or additions to a law of constitution
- constitution
- a set of basic principles that determines the powers and duties of a government
- imminet domain
- the government's power to take property to further the public good
- indict
- to formaly accuse