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- To contract
- To agree
- Utterance
- A speech act
- Basic Law
- A basic law is a law that tells you how to make every other law
- Basic Rule
- A rule that tells you how to make every other rule
- Grundnorm
- Basic Rule
- Nebulous
- Hazy
- Constrain
- To limit
- Exacerbate
- To worsen
- Guff
- Backtalk
- Strike down
- When any federal court strikes down a law that doesn’t comply with the constitution
- Judiciary
- All the judges
- Contravention
- Violation
- Euphemism
- Nicer way
- Lifetime tenure
- You have the job until you choose to retire
- Crony
- Political friend
- Tacit approval
- Unspoken approval
- Subterfuge
- Dodge, way out of a rule
- Excoriated
- Criticized severely
- Pusillanimous
- Cowardly
- Surfeit
- Excess
- Circumvent
- To go around
- Malapropism
- A mis-used word
- Treaty
- An agreement between or among countries
- Isolationism
- The belief that the U.S. should remain aloof from the affairs of the world
- Contract
- An exchange of promises, the written document that records that exchange
- Precursor
- Earlier, forerunner
- Overt
- Public, open
- Bellicose
- Ware like
- Internecine
- Within the family
- Convention
- Treaty
- Protocol
- Correct etiquette for official occasions/agreement
- Waiver
- An exception, permission to not follow a rule or law
- Stringent
- Demanding
- The bar
- The lawyer
- Succumb
- To give in
- Party
- A group of people organized to take power, a side of a lawsuit
- Nominating convention
- A big meeting to choose a nominee, but nowadays the nominee is already chosen
- Nominee
- Someone named by a party to run for office
- Nominate
- To elect a person to run for office
- Parochial
- Concerned with local interest
- Platform
- A state of the party’s positions on the issue
- Rank and file
- Ordinary members
- Primary election
- Open only to members of a party, choose its nominee
- Framers
- The people who drafted the constitution
- Defector
- Turn-coat, double-crosser
- Defective
- Having a big fault
- The base
- The most committed members of the party
- Popular vote
- The vote of the people
- Direct vote
- Winner of the popular vote wins
- Electoral college
- The group of people who choose the president
- Elector
- A member of the electoral college
- Antipodean
- Opposite, at opposite poles
- Unitary state
- A state that is not subdivided into smaller sates and has one central government
- Federal state
- A state which is subdivided into smaller states each having its own government that recognize the power of a central government
- National government
- Federal government, central government
- Perverse
- Opposites or contrary
- Colony
- A distant settlement ruled from afar by the home country
- Retro grade
- Behind the time
- To flaunt
- To show off
- To flout
- To disobey
- Import
- To bring into a place
- Export
- To ship out of a place
- Speakeasy
- A hidden bar
- Bootlegger
- Alcohol smuggler
- Moonshine
- Illegally distilled alchol
- Anamoly
- Something that doesn’t belong
- Pre-empt
- Knock-out
- Putative
- Supposedly; alleged
- Right
- When the people of a state vote directly on a law