This term refers to powers delegated to the National Government by direct statements in the constitution.
What are expressed powers?
100
This is a form of government in which a single individual wields unlimited power.
What is an autocracy?
100
This term refers to government deriving its power from the people it rules.
What is popular sovereignty?
100
This term refers to the action of revising a constitution.
What is an amendment?
100
This term refers to the president's power to limit the laws passed by congress.
What is a veto?
200
This term refers to the powers delegated only to the national government.
What are exclusive powers?
200
This is a form of government in which power is wielded by a small group.
What is an oligarchy?
200
This term refers to power being divided between different branches of government.
What is separation of powers?
200
This term refers to the first ten amendments of the U.S. constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
This term refers a colony under the jurisdiction of a single person who had the king's authority.
What is a proprietary colony?
300
This term refers to powers both the national and state governments possess and exercise.
What are concurrent powers?
300
This is a form of government in which power is divided between a national government and local governments.
What is a federal government?
300
This term refers to rights belonging to all individuals.
What are civil rights?
300
This term refers to a type of amendment that changes or adds to the words of the constitution.
What are formal amendments?
300
This term refers to the withdrawal of laws.
What is repealed?
400
This term refers to powers the national government possess because it is the government of a sovereign state.
What are inherent powers?
400
This is a form of government in which a multitude of independent states engage in an alliance with one another.
What is a confederation?
400
This term refers to government only having the powers delegated to it.
What is limited government?
400
This term refers to the power of the judicial branch of the government, to have the final say whether matters are unconstitutional, or constitutional.
What is judicial review?
400
This term refers to the formal approval of some policy.
What is ratification?
500
This term refers to powers that the constitution seems to suggest the national government has.
What are implied powers?
500
This is a form of government in which all power is wielded by a national agency, and local governments are made by this agency and derive their power from this agency.
What is unitary government?
500
This term refers to a system in which the various government branches have certain powers over each other.
What are checks and balances?
500
This term is an adjective describing something as being contrary to the constitution.
What is unconstitutional?
500
This was a compromise that was made between the southern and northern states regarding the taxation and representation of slaves.