Vocabulary
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Section 4
100
Where all the powers of government are given to people
What is republic?
100
The new U.S. government that consisted of a unicameral legislature?
What is Congress?
100
The number of members in the Senate
What is 100?
100
The number of votes it takes to be elected in the electoral college
What is 270?
100
They make up the judicial branch of the federal government
What is The Supreme Court and all lower federal courts?
200
A love and support of country and the Constitution
What is patriotism?
200
The number of votes each state had in the Congress
What is one?
200
A member of the U.S. House of Representatives must be this old
What is twenty-five years of age?
200
When the electoral college meets
What is the Monday following the second Wednesday of December?
200
Has both original and appellate jurisdiction
What is The Supreme Court?
300
Those powers specifically given to Congress in the U.S. Constitution
What is Expressed powers?
300
The year the Confederation Congress gave its support to the Philadelphia Convention
What is February 1787?
300
Another name for a bill
What is proposed legislation?
300
They have the power to make rules and to punish people or industries who break those rules
What is Federal regulatory commision?
300
Where the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th is based in
What is Atlanta?
400
Those not specifically given to the Congress in the U.S. Constitution
What is Implied powers?
400
All of the admendments to the Constitution that have been originated except one
What is the Twenty-First Amendment?
400
Have members from both the House and the Senate
What is Joint Committee?
400
They must be appointed by the president and approved by the Senate
What is the heads of regulatory commisions?
400
Meant to keep government branches with equal power
What is Checks and Balances
500
People who supported the strong national government established in the new constitution
What is Federalists?
500
Each individual in the country would be directly ivolved in making decisions
What is direct democracy?
500
When Congress adjourns during the ten-day period, the bill does not become a law and is dead
What is pocket veto?
500
A well known federal corporation
What is United States Postal Service?
500
What the judicial branch includes
What is the U.S. Supreme Court, circuit courts, district courts, bankruptcy courts, and special courts?
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