Vocab
The process of counting people.Occurs every ten years in the U.S.
What is the census?
The clause that ensures federal law takes priority over state law.
What is the Supremacy clause?
Term meaning to officially end a session
What is to adjourn?
Term referring to a drafted law.
What is a bill?
These types of courts look at cases and determine which side is right/wrong or innocent/guilty.
What is trial courts?
Non-trained citizens that form an army during an emergency
What is militia?
Land owned/controlled by the US that is not considered a state.
What is a US territories?
Term meaning to state or list something in a specific numerical order.
What is enumeration?
Term referring to money earned by a business or income received by the government by taxes.
What is revenue?
All states ratified the Constitution after Congress passed these.
What are the Bill of Rights?
The official right of an person under arrest to be brought to a judge/court
What is Habeas Corpus?
What occurs when an alleged criminal flees to another state and is captured by that states law enforcement.
What is the second state (one that captured the alleged criminal) must return the fugitive to the state where the crime was committed?
Term meaning a state of being calm or peace
What is tranquility?
The act of declaring a person guilty and penalizing them without trial
What is Bill of Attainder?
Congress may not punish this group of people if they were not involved in the crime
What is the friends and family of a criminal?
The process of becoming a citizen
What is naturalization?
This is the first step in the amendment process.
What is two-thirds of the Senate AND two-thirds of the House of Representatives must call for a change to be made? OR
What is two-thirds of the states call for a constitutional convention to make a change?
Term meaning when two or more things happen at the same time.
What is concurrence?
The process used to remove an official from office (used in a democratic society.) Starts with a formal document accusing or charging a public official with misconduct
What is impeachment?
Federal courts are not allowed to create cases on their own, even if they believe a law is unconstitutional, nor are they allowed to rule on these type of scenarios.
What is hypothetical scenarios?
The minimum number of members an assembly needs to hold official meetings
What is Quorum?
What is the second and final step of the amendment process?
What is three-fourths of the states (38 states) ratify the proposed amendment by their legislatures or special ratifying conventions?
A letter that gives authority for a private ship to capture an enemy vessel
What is Marque and Reprisal?
Term referring to“future generations” or the future of human beings
What is posterity?
These FOUR terms complete the sentence: “The President can be Impeached for a Conviction of.."
What is Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors?