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- amendment
- changes
- seperation of powers
- a system that the founders hoped would prevent any branch from gaining too much power
- popular sovereignty
- rule by the people
- federalism
- power is divided between national and state gov.
- vetoing
- rejecting
- judicial review
- the power of the courts to declare laws and actions of local state or national gov.s, invalid if the violate the constitution
- supremacy clause
- establishing that the constitution power is final
- checks and balances
- each branch of gov. exercises more control over the others
- jurisdiction
- the authority
- articles
- one of seven main divisions of the body of the constitutoin