Government Chapter 3
Terms
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- Popular Sovereignty means
- that people are the only source of governmental power
- Constitutionalism
- Government must be conducted according to constitutional principles
- Rule of Law
- Government and its officers are always subject to, never above, the law
- Separation of powers
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The Constitution distributes the oiwers of the national government among the Congress, the president, and the courts
(judical, legislative, and executive) - Checks and balances
- Each branch is subject to a number of constitutional checks (restraints) by the other branches
- Judical review
- the power to decide whether what government does is in accord to what the constitution provides
- Federalism
- the division of power among a central government and several regional governments
- amendment
- changes in the written words
- formal amendment
- changes or additions that become part of the written language of the constitution itself
- informal amendment
- the process by which many changes have been made in the constitution that have not led to changes in the document's written words
- executive agreement
- a pact made by the president direvtly with the head of the foreign state
- Name the 6 principles of the Constitution
- Populat Sovereignty, limited government, seperation of powers, checks and balances, judicial review, federalism
- Which branch is the president
- executive
- which branch is the Supreme court and other federal courts
- judicial
- which branch is congress
- legislative
- How does the executive branch check and balance the judicial branch??
- President appoints supreme dourt justices and other federal judges
- How does the executive branch check and balance the legilative branch
- President may veto legislation, call special sessions, recommenf legislattion to appeal
- How does the judicial branch check and balance the executive branch?
- Judges appointed for life are free from the executive control, courts may declare executive actions to be unconstitutional
- How does the judicial branch check and balance the legislative branch
- Courts my declare acts of congress to be unconstitutional
- How does the legislative branch check and balance the executive branch
- Congress makes the laws, creates agencies and programs appropriate funds to carry out laws and programs, may overrise veto with 2/3 voted, may remove president through impeachment
- How does the legislative branch check and balance the judicial branch
- Congress creates lower courts, may remove judges through impeachment, senate approves or rejects appointments of judges
- what did the 13th amendment do?
- ended slavery and prohibits most other forms of involentary servitude