Government Chapter 3 review
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- rule by the people
- popular sovereignty
- power is divided between national and state governments
- federalism
- each of the 3 branches has its own responsibilities
- separation of powers
- each branch of government exercises control over the others
- checks and balances
- rejecting legislation
- veto
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the power of courts to declare laws and actions of local, state, or national governments invalid if they violate the
Constitution - judicial review
- the constitution limits the actions of government by specifically listing powers it does and does not have
- limited government
- 2 parts of congress
- senate and house of representatives
- powers of congress directly stated in the constitution
- expressed powers
- expressed powers of congress numbered 1-18
- ennumerated powers
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first ennumerated power
gives congress right to make all laws "necessary and proper" to carry out its powers. - elastic clause
- president head of the
- executive branch
- executive branch protects 3 things
- liberty property business
- 5 specific powers of the president
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1. make treaties
2. commander in chief
3. appoints heads of executive departments
4. may pardon someone/reduce sentence
5. commissions all military officers -
presidents reside over a vast
-made up of all executive branch employees - federal beauracracy
- 2 court systems in judicial branch
- federal and state
- this courts powers derive from the constitution and federal laws
- federal
- this court's powers derive from state constitutions and laws
- state
- the 2 factors that determine jurisdiction
- subject matter and parties involved
- 2 ways the president acts as a legislator
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*proposes legislative agenda
*details programs that are enacted into law - 3 sources of conflict between president and congress
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*power of president troubles congress
*the way the president enforces a bill congress has passed
*political parties - congress has the power to limit what of the supreme court
- jurisdiction
- why does the supreme court need a president to comply with its decision?
- A president who disagrees can refuse to enforce it
- 2 methods of proposing an amendment
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*2/3 vote of each house of congress
*national convention called at the request of 2/3 of the states - to appeal to
- petition
- this amendment called for the federal government's spending never exceeding its income
- balanced budget
- 2 mehods of ratifying an amendment
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*legislatures in 3/4ths of the state ratitify amendment
*special ratifying convention - 21st amendment repealed
- 18th amendment
- 3 ways congress has changed the constitution through law
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*Taxing authority of congress
*Executive branch
*Federal courts - Senate has the power to determine ___ or ____
- Guilt, innocence
- 25th amendment clarified
- presidential succession
- agreement between nations
- treaty
- made directly by the president and the head of state of another country
- executive agreement
- courts should avoid taking initiative on social and political issues
- Judicial restraint
- second amendment
- bear arms
- 19th amendment
- women vote
- 22nd amendment
- limits presidential terms
- 13th amendment
- outlawed slavery
- 4th amendment
- protects against searches + seizures
- 26th amendment
- lowered voting age in both federal and state elections to 18
- 5th amendment
- protects against double jeopardy and self-incrimination
- 16th amendment
- gives congres power to levy individual income taxes
- 15th amendment
- prohibits government from denying a person's right to vote on the basis of race