Academic Vocab 1
The president's refusal to allow a bill to become a law?
What is a VETO
Makes all the laws; composed of two houses
What is the U.S. CONGRESS
The President of the United States
What is the Commander in Chief of the army
What was the first US Constitution
What were the Articles of Confederation
What worried the people who opposed the Constitution
What is the government would be to powerful and take power from the states
A change in a body of laws?
What is an AMENDMENT?
Represents people according to the state's population
What is the House of Representatives
The branch of government that makes laws
What is the Legislative branch
A proposed law
What is a Bill
What amendment includes the following rights: Freedom of Speech
Freedom of Relgion
What is the first Amendment
A person who has been chosen to act for another?
What is a DELEGATE?
A justice
What is a Judge
Vote needed to overturn a president's veto
What is a two-thirds vote
A document that has the fundamental laws of a nation
What is a Constitution
Why didn't the Constitution eliminate slavery?
What is the they felt the South would've gone bankrupt because they had an agrarian economy
Signs bills and directs the nation
What is a PRESIDENT
To accuse a politican or justice of a serious crime
What is to Impeach
To approve formally
What is Ratification
Meeting to draw up the US Constitution
What was the Constitutional Convention
What amendment vows the right to bear arms
What is the second amendment
A branch of government composed of the courts
What is a JUDICIARY
Has two representatives from each state
What is the Senate
First Ten Amendments of the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights
The branch of government that puts the laws in motion
What is the executive office
What city held the Constitutional Convention
What is Philadelphia